Music Title:【Rin・Len】鏡音八八花合戦 english subbed "Kagamine hachi-hachi hana no kassen", "Hachi-hachi Flowery Battle of Kagamines" Singers: 鏡音レン(Len Kagamine),鏡音リン(Rin Kagamine) edited byモジャP(Moja-P) Authors: music byモジャP(Moja-P), lyrics by にれぎる(Niregiru), Video by melou Reprinted from nico video www.nicovideo.jp *lyrics are based on 花札hanafuda/ flower cards, which are Japanese playing cards. The cards feature twelve months of a year. The games of hanafuda were popular gambles in Edo period. en.wikipedia.org You can play the flower card game here online. This game is koi-koi , not hachi-hachi. www.gamedesign.jp 0:09 Hachi-hachi(八八eight-eight): One of the games of flower cards 0:15 Yoshino(よしの): A place in Nara, famous for cherry blossoms. 1:25 Ao-tan(青短 blue[purple] ribbon): Since ancient ages, Japanese have often used strips of colourful papers to write poems on. In Tanabata Star Festival, people write their wishes on strips and hang them from bamboo branches. 1:51 Gokou (五光 five-brights): You need to make yaku(役), certain combinations of cards, to win the game. Five-brights is one of yaku, a card combination of Crane and Sun , Cherry blossom with Camp Curtain, Full Moon with Red Sky, Nobleman under Willow with Umbrella and Frog, and Chinese Phoenix with Paulownia. 1:51 Ino-shika-chou(猪鹿蝶 boar-deer-buttefly):One of yaku and it's a card combination of Boar with Bush Clover , Deer and Maple, and Butterflies with Peony. Japanese
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