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More Hanafuda websites

Note: Links like the below sometimes die or move - not my fault! If you discover a broken link, or wish to add a new link, or anything like that, shoot the webmaster an email!

Simple rules for Hawaiian hanafuda rules: http://www.hanafubuki.org/sakura.html (thanks to Laura Pila, March forth, 2008).

Learn about the game of "Sakura" (according to the Kotake Company in Japan) at http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/9445/hanafuda.htm (thanks to Google, March forth, 2008).

And of course Wikipedia, the fount of all human knowledge (not necessarily always accurate, since it's just us ordinary folks who write it), has an entry on Hanafuda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda.

Play a hanafuda game online at http://kalaniosullivan.com/Games/index.html#HANAFUDA%20ANYONE? (thanks to "PQ")

You can also play gostop at http://game.ijji.com/gostop/index.nhn. Ray from Holland, aka The Capsaicinfetishist and Author of http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godori, says:
>You can play it whith real but also whith playmoney! (what i prefur)
>The site is in just readeble carracters,... So signing up is easy
>(Sorry if mine english is rotten,...)

David Hurley offers a variety of hanafuda decks for sale at http://www.japanese-games-shop.com/hanafuda.html.

http://www.netmarble.net has online GoStop (including Double GoStop) - Korean language.

At http://www.bamafolks.com/~randy/minhato/, Randy Pearson offers freeware versions of his DOS Minhato software (Minhato being an older Korean Hanafuda game) - may not run on Windows XP. (Thanks to Mark Manning)

Bob Lancaster's Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards site is at: http://members.aol.com/rslancastr/. And Bob has links to more sites about playing cards at: http://members.aol.com/ataraxiarl/blgupc/linksmis.htm.

Tricia Kirk sells her own "Restoration" decks at http://www.telestream.com/~grania/restoration.html.

Online hanafuda game in Japan: http://www.hangame.co.jp/

Another Hawaiian version: http://members.nbci.com/bob_forster/hanafuda.htm

Here's a game for Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4 - It's on the Apple site, but here is the home site: http://www.upyolic.com/en/koikoi_pi.html (thanks to Parsa for the link)

War of Flowers is also for Macintosh - http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/war-of-flowers (thanks to Parsa for the tip)

A very pretty Flash game - http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/hanafuda/hanafuda_e.html (thanks to Andreas)

Bob Celko's page (be sure to explore the Game Cabinet site further!): http://www.gamecabinet.com/letters/Hanafuda6.html

Dale Furutani's page (he's an author of mystery books set in Japan): http://members.aol.com/dfurutani/hanafuda.html

A site with hanafuda cards for sale: http://www.japonaji.com/miscproducts.html

History of hanafuda: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/pd49/pockets/games/hanacard.htm

Download a hanafuda font! http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/data/writing/se140150.html?y

Download a Japanese demo program: http://www.otakuworld.com/toys/index.html?/toys/preview/games/EvangelionHanafuda.html

http://www.gmg.net/gmg/home/index.asp Online Mah-Jongg and Hanafuda server. Korean language. You may not be able to sign up and play if you don't live in Korea.

http://www.hijoy.co.kr/index2.php Online Mah-Jongg and Hanafuda server. Korean language. You may not be able to sign up and play if you don't live in Korea.

Hanafuda rubber stamps: http://www.danalen.com/hanafuda1.html

Nintendo's hana-kabu page: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n09/hana-kabu_items/index.html

Pagat.com is THE website for all kinds of card games: http://www.pagat.com/class/flower.html

Japanese site showing a hanafuda game in the form of mah-jongg-style tiles - http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/stone2/hanafudahai.html (Thanks to Graham Leonard for the link!)

You can play a form of "godori" (go-stop, aka Korean koi-koi) at http://neopets.com/games/godori/index.phtml (thanks to Phil, aka MDK, for the link).

http://luckywonders.com/HwaTuKoreanCardGame.htm

A Hanafuda/Kabufuda rules site created by Graham Leonard, who has graciously shared information on fine points of koi-koi due to his fluency in Japanese: http://hana.kirisame.org/

Here's 2 (somewhat different) sets of rules for Si Se Pai (四色牌 - Four Color Cards), a Chinese game somewhat similar to Chinese Chess, in English: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tnt/rules.html and http://www.ofb.net/~whuang/ugcs/gp/ssp/ Here's a page with more background on the Si Se Pai cards http://a_pollett.tripod.com/cards18.htm. (Thanks to Graham Leonard.)

Robert Kalin's "print them yourself" cards site is at http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/robertkalin/create.html . He has several hanafuda decks available. And there are lots more websites. Just enter "hanafuda" or "hwa-tu" or "go-stop" in your internet search engine and go exploring! (^_^)

Update log:

- Sometime in late 2000 -- adapted document for the web and went online. No pix online yet.
- January 29, 2001 -- added Ian Bowles' site.
- January 29, 2001 -- added Tricia Kirk's "Restoration" site.
- January 30, 2001 -- added online hanafuda site in Japan.
- Groundhog Day, 2001 -- changed the Hanafuda Restoration site URL.
- July 25, 2001 -- added http://www.hangame.co.jp/
- February 6, 2003 -- added The Compass of Fate.
- February 8, 2002 -- added www.imajan.jp
- October 31, 2003 -- added Korean online game sites.
- March 18, 2004 -- added hanafudahai link and deleted Compass of Fate (which belongs on the mah-jongg page, not here)
- March 19, 2004 -- added LuckyWonders.com link (thanks to Steve Bagozzi)
- March 22, 2004 -- deleted Mark Hashimoto's site (site is down). But if anybody wants to contact him, I might have an email address here somewhere.
- Subsequent updates are logged here.

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