Playing - Marbles

Japanese: お弾き - おはじき

A type of game. Players flick shells, pebbles, glass marbles, etc. with their fingertips to claim them as their own, and compete to see who can get the most. The playthings used have changed over time, and in the olden days, it was literally pebbles, as the game was called "stone flicking game." Instead of pebbles, small shells such as those of the Kisago (thin spiral) and the fruits of plants such as ginkgo and soapberry trees, and juzu beads have been used. The first natural playthings to change into artificial ones were mud menko, which were sold commercially as "hajikimen." Glass "hajiki" appeared in the late Meiji period. In addition to flicking the stones one by one, there are various ways to play, such as flicking within a section, flicking into a section, and flicking out. Danki, which was played in the Heian period, was also a type of flicking game using go stones.
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Japanese:

遊戯の一つ。貝殻，小石，ガラス玉などを指先ではじき当てて自分のものとし，その数を競う。使われる遊具は時代とともに変化，古くは石はじき遊びといわれていたように，文字どおり小石であった。この小石に代わって登場するのが，キサゴ（細螺）などの小貝殻やイチョウ，ムクロジの実，じゅず玉などの植物の実である。自然物の遊具から人工物のものに変化する最初のものが泥めんこの類で，〈はじきめん〉として市販された。ガラス製の〈はじき〉が登場するのは明治後期のことである。遊び方は，一つずつはじき当てるほか，区画内でのはじき当て，区画内へのはじき入れ，はじき出しなどいろいろな方法で行われる。平安時代に行われた弾棊(だんき)も碁石を用いた一種のお弾きであった。
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