Editing Karuta (section)

===Unsun karuta===
[[File:うんすんカルタ.png|thumb|300px|Unsun karuta set]]
The ''[[:ja:うんすんカルタ|Unsun karuta]]'' (Japanese: {{lang |ja|うんすんカルタ}}) deck developed in the late 17th century.  It has five suits of 15 ranks each for a total of 75 cards.  Six of the ranks were face cards of female knave, knight, king, "Un" (うん), "Sun" (すん), and dragon.  The Portuguese deck used to have dragons on their [[ace]]s; the Unsun karuta made the aces and dragons separate cards. The order of the court cards change depending on whether it is the trump suit or not just like in [[Ombre]]. The new Guru suit used circular whirls (''[[mitsudomoe]]'') as [[Pip (counting)|pips]]. Unsun karuta is still used in [[Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto]], to play ''hachinin-meri'', a game descended from [[:pt:Guritipau|Guritipau]], a relative of Ombre.<ref>Depaulis, Thierry (2009).  "Playing the Game: Iberian Triumphs Worldwide". ''[[The Playing-Card]]''. Vol 38-2, p. 134-137.</ref> This game preserves some very archaic features such as inverted ranking for the pip cards in the three round suits. Inverted ranking is a feature found in [[Madiao]], [[Khanhoo]], [[Tổ tôm]], [[Ganjifa]], [[Tarot card games|Tarot]], Ombre, and [[Spoil Five|Maw]] and is believed to have originated in the very earliest card games.