January
Pine 松
Interactive guide
The Hanafuda Year
Hanafuda compresses a year into twelve plant suits and forty-eight small cards. This guide uses the exact approved Koi-Koi card faces for factual display.
The 48-card calendar
The Hanafuda year
Each suit has four cards. The plant names the month; the card classes shape how Koi-Koi is played.
February
Plum blossom 梅
March
Cherry blossom 桜
April
Wisteria 藤
May
Iris 菖蒲
June
Peony 牡丹
July
Bush clover 萩
August
Susuki grass 芒
September
Chrysanthemum 菊
October
Maple 紅葉
November
Willow 柳
December
Paulownia 桐
Small test
Match the twelve Hanafuda plants to their months
This quiz follows the traditional Hanafuda card calendar, not modern botanical bloom timing across all regions of Japan.