hanafuda cards (fortune telling)

Demonstrating a reading with Hanafuda / Hwatu cards, from Korea

Introduced to Korea by the Japanese, they are popularly used as a gambling game, and also fortune-telling cards.

The future can only be told for the individual who is handling the cards -- one cannot read the future for someone else with them. If someone else were to touch the cards while they are being delt, it spoils the reading, and the dealer must begin again, with a fresh shuffle and deal.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• hanafuda
• hwatu
• cards
• fortune
• divination
• divinitory
• future
• tarot

[Plentidar]

Looks pretty cool to me, but have you ever seeing plentidar cards?

They are great, if you like Hanafuda cards, I bet you would like Plentidar cards, check it out!

[ParaGlitter]

@Plentidar Never heard of "plentidar cards" I'll have to Google them

[Gofurry93]

hey, did you use the Mario cards from club Nintendo. one of the cards looks like it has a boo on it, so thats why i thought that.

[ParaGlitter]

No, these are traditional styled cards, but, all Hanafuda cards have some similarities in their basic designs.

[Kreblink]

Ha ha ha, it's amazing how many people are being introduced to these cards by the ones on club Nintendo.

[ParaGlitter]

@Kreblink Before video game technology, Nintendo was a hanafuda card company

[EricardEX]

not working.

[RukoHanaji]

Interesting! A few months back I got a hwatu deck, and saw that the suits had little words printed on them ("news,tidings" for pine, "travel" for cherry, etc) and had no idea why. Now I'm going to have to give this a try.

[chuacasper]

this also can call War of Flowers

[chuacasper]

i always get a chang pair lol

[griffins]

any info for the meaning of the cards?

[Kenadit2]

u suck