Tools for karuta - Ogoola Karuta

Tools for Ogura Hyakuninisshu Karuta in Japanese and English.

On this page, we introduce tools you can use to practice playing the Hyakuninisshu Romaji Karuta, the Hyakuninisshu English Translated Karuta and the Japanese original Ogura Hyakuninisshu karuta.

Read about the Basic Rules of how to play karuta the competitive way explained by karutaclub.com.

Ogura Hyakuninisshu Karuta – recited in Japanese on Spotify

by Yuki Hiromoto and Keiko Serino 2022

Spotify Public Playlist: Hyaku Intro
小倉百人一首 Ogura Hyakuninisshu – 12 selected cards for a trial game.
Spotify Public Playlist: Hyaku Original 1-101
小倉百人一首 Ogura Hyakuninisshu original, 100 poems by 100 poets, read in Japanese plus the Joka (introductory poem) as card 101

Japanese Apps for training and competition -recited in Japanese

WWW: Beta Computing: Kyogi Karuta – Competitive Karuta Online.
Practices, reciting and competition

Free app: Wasuramoti at Google Play and Appstore
Japanese reciting Karuta App

Hyakuninisshu English Translated Karuta – recited in English on Spotify

by Aya Feurst 2020

Spotify Public Playlist: Hyaku English 1-100
English Translated Hyakuninisshu by MacCauley (1917)
Spotify Public Playlist Hyaku English 1-101
Including 6 Makurakotoba cards and 1 Joka – by Olayaselection (Feurst 2025)