Gambling - gambling

Japanese: 博打 - ばくち

Also called gambling. Usually synonymous with gambling. In the narrow sense, it refers to dice gambling (gambling using dice). There are more than a dozen ways to play dice gambling, from choboichi, which uses one dice, to tensai, which uses five dice. The most representative is chinhan gambling, which was popular during the Edo period and even gave rise to gamblers. Two dice are placed in a jar (a deep-bottomed basket covered in paper and coated with persimmon tannin) and shaken on a mat. The total of the dice rolled (even numbers are chin, odd numbers are han) is used to decide the winner, and the winner shares the bet, excluding the temple money. There can be any number of players, but the bets on both the chinza and hanza must be the same amount. The role of the nakabon, who sits in the center, is to combine the amounts, and the nakabon who is poor at playing is called bonkura, or "dark on the tray." Those who ran out of money to bet would borrow money from the boss, so the gambling boss was also called the lender.
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Japanese:

博奕とも。ふつう賭博(とばく)と同義。狭義には賽(さい)博打（賽を用いる賭博）をさす。賽博打は賽１個のちょぼ一から５個の天賽まで十数種の遊び方があるが，江戸時代に流行し，博徒まで生まれた丁半賭博が代表的。壺（底の深い目かごに紙を張り柿渋をひいたもの）に入れた２個の賽を盆ござの上に振り，出た目の合計（偶数が丁，奇数が半）で勝負を争い，勝った者は寺銭を除いた賭金を分配する。人数は何人でもよいが，丁座と半座に分かれた両方の賭金が同額でなければならない。この額を合わせるのは，中央に座を占める中盆(なかぼん)の役で，腕のわるい中盆を〈盆の上が暗い〉，略して〈ぼんくら〉という。賭金のなくなった者は親分に金を借りたので，博徒の親分を貸元ともいう。
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