Horseshoe-pitching

...The most common examples today are a 20cm diameter rubber board with a 6cm diameter hole thrown at a single pin (hob), or a 15cm diameter ring thrown at nine pins arranged in a square with 20cm intervals between them. The game is played both indoors and outdoors, with the pins about 16m away. There are also other games such as horseshoe-pitching, which is a favorite in the United States, and deck-quoits, a game played on the deck of a ship with a rope loop. In Japan, during the Meiji period, a drinking game in which a ring was thrown using fire tongs on a tatami mat was popular, and was also played at festivals, and rules were introduced such that if the ring fell perfectly into an item lined up on the floor, the item could be retrieved.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…現在の代表的な例は，直径20cmのゴム板に直径6cmほどの穴のあいたものを1本のピン(hob)に向かって投げるか，あるいは，直径15cmほどの輪を約20cm間隔で正方形に9本並んだピンに投げる競技で，屋外･屋内ともに行われ，ピンまでは16mくらいとする。アメリカで愛好される蹄鉄を投げる馬蹄投げhorseshoe‐pitchingや，ロープを輪にして船の甲板で行うゲーム(deck‐quoits)などもある。　日本でも明治時代には畳に火ばしを立てて輪を投げる酒席遊戯が盛んで，縁日などでも行われ，床に並んだ品物に輪が完全にはまるとその品物が取得できるというようなルールも現れた。…

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