Purchase an eligible Hobonichi Techo 2020 book and you’ll receive a set of Small Hobonichi Hyakunin-isshu cards. This deck of 100 cards can be used for actual gameplay for karuta, a traditional Japanese card game. The cards are 38 x 52 mm, so they’re portable and don’t take up much space during games.About Hobonichi Hyakunin-isshu (100 Poets 100 Poems) Karuta cardsThis is a deck of cards with 100 Japanese traditional poems by 100 different poets edited in the early 1200’s. We invited manga artist Radio Wada to draw up-to-date illustrations for the classical poems, based on literary interpretations by late author Mr. Osamu Hashimoto. The poems are made of a top phrase and a bottom phrase. When playing the cards in Japan, a reader reads only the top phrase and the players pick the card with corresponding bottom phrase as soon as they recognize the poem. The player who gets the most cards is the winner. Even if you don’t play the game, you can enjoy the Japanese writing and Wada’s tasteful illustrations. If you would like to know more about these Japanese traditional poems, please refer to the book One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (Penguin Classics) by author Peter Macmillan.

This uni Jetstream pen features a low viscosity ink that writes smoothly and works perfectly with the Hobonichi Techo’s Tomoe River paper. The 3-Color Ballpoint Pen includes black, red, and blue ink with a 0.5 mm pen tip, allowing the option to use each color for a different purpose. The entire pen body is red, and the pen clip features the logo “Hobonichi Techo 2020.”
(This pen’s refills are available for purchase in the Hobonichi Store.)