a pair of poem and picture..
Shell Game
Ancient people painted to the shell as a pair of drawing picture and poem. |
It was setting one picture to one poem ( waka ), many these shell put on |
floor lundom with picture hide inside, and player pick up to tow shell , |
and remenber to head where is shell's place..when player found |
a pair of shell, she hold it..as this way, decide winner who hold a lots of |
shell finaly...picture and poem from popular story, and just fit one peom |
to only one picture..is it simple ? it's trainning of memory..and enjoy the poem..
poem sentence is vertical writing and also nice sense words.. ( around A.D.1000 ) |
Comments (3)
The drawing on the shell is beautiful!
There was a U.S. game show called Concentration that was similar to what you have described... a board game was created based on the TV game as well. (I've provided a couple links I found on the internet for you below.)
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Concentration-%28game-show%29#Syndicated-run-.281973_1978.29
http://gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/vexhibit/Whitehill/concentration/
I always learn something new when I come to see your site! Love teh idea of the shell game matching peom with the scene. How wonderful !
i have a shell with ancient pics & writings & do not know what it means there are iceburgs and birds and ocean waves to name a few things it is orange with purple inside and very large thanks N woman God Bless magi/brck
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