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Chihayafuru is an anime about card game called Karuta where players compete to
touch the right card based on the poem being read. Chihayafuru wikia [lists
all 100 of the poem](http://chihayafuru.wikia.com/wiki/Ogura_Hyakunin_Isshu).
However, I can't find the dimension of the card they use in the game. What is
the dimension of the card used by Chihaya in the matches? Like how many cm x
how many cm? If possible, the thickness of the card too.


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What is the dimension of Karuta cards?


Competition cards are 74x53mm (~2.9x2.1 inches) in size, and made from
"pasteboard". Reference: [Japanese Wikipedia article on
karuta](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%99%BE%E4%BA%BA%E4%B8%80%E9%A6%96#.E3.81.8B.E3.82.8B.E3.81.9F).
The pasteboard used to make Japanese playing cards tends to be thicker than
what we are familiar with in the West for cards. It's called 厚紙 (atsugami =
thick paper) and can be quite thick -- I have some Japanese playing cards that
are 0.4mm thick, which is thicker than Western plastic playing cards, and I've
seen images of atsugami that look quite a bit thicker.

Alas I don't know exactly how thick karuta competition cards are since I never
held any.


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