also: よみガルタ
noun
yomi karuta; card game of reading poems
A traditional Japanese card game where players listen to a poem being read and compete to grab the matching card. Domain-specific to card games.
正月に家族で読みカルタをして遊んだ。
We played yomi karuta with the family during New Year's.
読みカルタは百人一首を使うことが多い。
Yomi karuta often uses the Hyakunin Isshu poems.
The classic anthology of 100 poems often used in yomi karuta; not a game itself but the source material.
Compound of 読み (yomi, 'reading') and カルタ (karuta, from Portuguese 'carta', meaning 'card'). The term describes a card game centered on reading poems aloud.