![]() ![]() The goal is to collect sets of four or more koi fish cards with matching colors. Place the remaining cards in the center of the table to form a draw pile.Įach player takes turns drawing one card from either the draw pile or from another player’s hand. To start the game, shuffle the deck of cards and deal five cards to each player. The game ends when all the koi fish cards have been taken from the deck. The objective of the game is to collect as many koi fish cards as possible by the end of the game. Each card has a picture of a koi fish on it, and there are six different colors: red, blue, green, yellow, black, and white. The deck of cards used in Koi consists of 48 cards. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to play Koi. Koi is a simple yet engaging game that can be played by two to six players. The game involves colorful fish, and it is played with a deck of 48 cards. Print out the pages and take them with you when you see the actual noh performance.Koi is a popular and traditional game that originated in Japan. Story Paper presents noh chant stories in modern speech, with story outlines, highlights and more using Adobe PDF format, which can print out and zoom in. STORY PAPER : Koi no Omoni (The Deadweight of Love) His earnest and undistracted heart strikes our hearts. Although his love will never be rewarded, he chooses to stay close to his beloved one and support her, rather than keep blaming her. The old man does not hold his bitter feeling but announces at the end that he will become the guardian spirit of the consort. The sophisticated expressions easily grab the audience’s hearts and quickly enchant them. This piece vividly expresses the old man’s emotional moves with the character’s limited movements, accompanied by the chorus which quickly changes its singing speed. He dies of a grudge against her and he turns into an evil ghost. The old man’s love is crushed by her bitter treatment. Imagine the misery of the old man clinging to a thread of hope and tackling an impossible task to lift the heavy burden. The terrible tragedy starts when the consort offers him hope which he should not have. In the first place, the consort does not have any special feeling for the old man, and the man also knows that there is no hope for him. Although people say class and status cannot prevent love, there are status and age gaps between these two. The old man is a lowly man sweeping and maintaining a garden. The woman is a consort of a retired emperor. Another Noh piece, Aya no Tsuzumi, also has a similar story line. This is a story describing woe and animosity of an old man who fell in love with a beautiful woman. In the end, however, the ghost says that he will forget the grudge and act as a guardian to protect the consort to realize her happiness for good, if the consort gives memorial services for him. The ghost, who is infuriated at her bitter treatment, repeatedly expresses his resentment and blames her for his suffering in Hell. Then, the ghost of Shōji appears before her. When she tries to stand up, she cannot move just as if there were a rock on her body. She goes out to the garden, finds his body, and mourns his death. The consort hears about Shoji’s death from the retainer. As he passes away, he curses that the consort will pay for it. Exhausting all his energy, the despairing Shōji holds a grudge against this raw deal. Although he tries again and again, he is never successful. It is, however, incredibly heavy and he cannot lift it at all. Confident that it must be an easy task for a man like him whose body has been trained by gardening, Shōji tries to lift the package with all the might in his body. Shōji is delighted with this slender opportunity to meet with the lady. The required task is to carry a beautifully-decorated package and walk around the garden hundreds of times. (During the Heian period, noble women were always hidden behind screens in their rooms and rarely appeared before unfamiliar people). The consort, who recognizes his romantic affection for her, has a retainer deliver a message to Shōji that says she will appear before him if he can complete a certain task. One day, Shōji took a glance at a consort of Shirakawa-in and fell in love with her. There was a gardener, Yamashina no Shōji, who was taking care of the Retired Emperor Shirakawa’s (Shirakawa-in) beloved chrysanthemums in Shirakawa-in’s garden. ![]() STORY DATA PhotoStory Photo from National Noh Theatre ![]()
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