Karuta Game Card - Wife Of The Renowned General Maresuke Nogi

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Karuta is the most popular among the many kinds of card games in Japan. It is played mostly on New Years Day, but there are also national conventions for playing karuta. Each card has a poem, or portion thereof, written on it with a total of 100 poems in the game. On this card, Shizuko Nogi was wife of the renowned General Maresuke Nogi. She and her husband lost two sons during the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict during which her husband earned both military honors for waging a successful siege on Port Arthur, and notoriety for losing nearly 60,000 men in the process. As an act of devotion to the Meiji Emporer, she and her husband committed ritual suicide after the emperors funeral entourage passed their home. By doing so, they hoped to accompany the emperor into the spiritual realm. She and her husband can be spiritually contacted at the Nogi Jinja shrines located in Aoyama and Chofu.

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