picture-matching game; matching pairs
A game or activity where players match identical or related pictures, often using cards. Common in children's games and educational contexts.
The children are playing with picture-matching cards.
picture-matching contest; e-awase
Historical term for a Heian-period courtly contest where participants competed by matching or comparing pictures, often as a form of entertainment or artistic display.
Picture-matching contests in the Heian period were one of the popular pastimes among the nobility.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant kanji spelling using 合せ instead of 合わせ.
Compound of 絵 (e, 'picture') and 合わせ (awase, 'matching, joining'). The historical contest sense derives from the same components, referring to a matching competition.