43 selections are love poems, and 32 poems are seasonal ones. It's one of the essential games of New Year.
Victory is decided with stone breaking scissors, scissors cutting paper, or paper covering stone.
When everybody puts forward the same things, or when all the three kinds of shape is put forward, it's a tie. They go on playing until the winner is decided. This is an instrument for calculation that came from China to Japan. Several poles have five or seven round pieces. The round pieces move.