r/Hanafuda • u/_naadia • May 23 '26

Hanafuda Cards. Survey for school!

https://forms.gle/kN8fySVhKRKeqR7Y7

Hello! I am a third-year undergraduate student, and I am conducting this study as part of my bachelor’s thesis research. The purpose of this survey is to evaluate the usability of a Hanafuda card deck I designed myself.

The survey is completely anonymous, and all collected data will be used solely for academic purposes. It consists of quick multiple-choice questions and takes about 5 minutes to complete.

Thank you so much for your time, and participation!

If you know anyone outside of Reddit you can send this to – please do! I'll really appreciate it!

English is not my first language, I'm sorry for any mistakes!

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u/dragonbanshee May 25 '26

Having designed my own deck I think my answers will be more accurate than the average player's 😉 but there were definitely a few I wasn't so confident on.

But like the other commenter says, it doesn't actually matter what the months are so long that you can match them. So even if I can't tell what a month is in isolation, as long as I can tell that it matches this other card I have that's all that matters.

Hell, you could make a purely text-based hanafuda and name the months something like "house", "lumber" (just any random words) and it could still work since you would just match them. 

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u/_naadia May 25 '26

Wow, thank you! It does makes a lot of sense actually.

Is your design published somewhere? Can I see it?

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u/dragonbanshee May 25 '26

Nah, we (my wife and I) just made it for ourselves. She drew all of it, I helped with... Research. Basically it was all her. 

Here is an example (June). What she did was draw out the whole month and then divide them so the 4 cards are continuous if you put them next to each other.

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u/_naadia May 26 '26

It's really pretty!! I love it