狐きつね拳けん

noun

kitsune-ken; fox game

A traditional Japanese hand game similar to rock-paper-scissors, using three gestures: fox, hunter, and village headman. The fox defeats the headman, the headman defeats the hunter, and the hunter defeats the fox.

• 狐きつね拳けんは、狐きつねと猟りょう師しと庄しょう屋やの三さんすくみで勝しょう負ぶを決きめる遊あそびです。

  Kitsune-ken is a game decided by the three-way deadlock of fox, hunter, and village headman.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、狐きつね拳けんが酒しゅ席せきの余よ興きょうとしてよく行おこなわれた。

  In the Edo period, kitsune-ken was often played as entertainment at drinking parties.