fukuwarai
Sign in to saveright|thumb|Example components for a fukuwarai game: a blank face and a set of facial features is a Japanese children's game, popular during New Year's celebrations. Players are led to a table which has a paper drawing of a human face with no features depicted, and cutouts of several facial features (such as the eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth). While blindfolded, the players attempt to place the features onto the face in the correct positions.
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- Instance of
- children's game
- Country
- Japan
- Material used
- paper
- Image
- Fukuwarai-maleface.svg
- Significant event
- Japanese New Year
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right|thumb|Example components for a fukuwarai game: a blank face and a set of facial features is a Japanese children's game, popular during New Year's celebrations. Players are led to a table which has a paper drawing of a human face with no features depicted, and cutouts of several facial features (such as the eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth). While blindfolded, the players attempt to place the features onto the face in the correct positions.
Correct placement tends to be a stroke of luck and incorrect placement an amusing matter, perhaps explaining the name and its translation, "lucky laugh".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fukuwarai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.