Fukuoka playing cards and a visit to Fukuoka Farm

This is an excerpt from an excellent blog about visiting Fukuoka Farm Buddhism and Agriculture II: Hope and Despair on Fukuoka Farm, Iyo

I wondered if anyone here has a set of these cards?

"More and more, he became convinced that books and lectures could not change anything. Indeed, his final project was to create a deck of Uta Karuta cards, which he called Iroha Kakumei Uta (Iroha Revolutionary Verses)[1]. Uta Karuta cards are used in a Japanese game popular amongst children, in which one must match the first half of a poem with the second half. On the cards were written poems that Fukuoka-sensei had composed regarding the limitations of human knowledge and the importance of living close to nature. He believed that these short verses and the images accompanying them might have potential for more transformative impacts than the endless speeches that appealed to the intellect alone."

I wish...I hope they reprint them!

Not the cards but maybe some of the quotes?



There is a note in the blog that says...The cards were published posthumously in 2009, under Fukuoka’s self-publishing company, Shizen-Juen (ISBN 978-4-938743-03-1) Maybe that would help someone find them ?

I saw that too and googled it without results.

Nice video - thank you for posting!

Found this:

His truely last original work, but not a book:

2009 Iroha Revolutionary Verses
いろは革命歌 (iroha kakumei uta);
Fukuoka, Masanobu's 47 hand-written classical song-verses (bilingual) and drawings, in pen and ink, also with photographs;
One large double–sided card for each of the 47 classical iroha–arrangement of Japanese syllables;
Includes a bilingual Fukuoka, Masanobu biography commentary booklet by Shōjaku, Mutsumi, having records of practically all his works, bibliography and main life accomplishments, together with the song verses cards;
(Japanese) bilingually with (English) translations – created with several translators, editors and contributors;
53p 15×10cm;
His testament and last creation;
Posthumously self-published in 2009 Feb 2, by 自然樹園 (小心舎) (Shizen Juen (Shou Shin Sha)) –one of his own self-publishing-publisher-names.
In print ISBN 978-4-938743-03-1.

In another article I found a second ISBN 4-938743-03-5

But an ISBN search shows they are both out of print.

Hi, I speak Japanese so I started poking around and there seems to be a couple places where these can be ordered, but in true Japanese fashion the websites are not mainstream nor are they user friendly. Here is one,
http://www.himorogian.jp/shop/index.htm
The deck costs 3240¥ and you actually have to mail or email in a form. I will talk to my wife and see if I can get a deck sent to her family home in Japan. My father in law farms out in central Japan and he might want a deck, too.

It is being sold here, at 3000 Japanese Yens +2400 Yens Shipping to USA (total of 5400 JPU = about 45 US dollars)

https://f-masanobu.jp/en/product/book-iroha/

However, the listing mentions: Precaution-Japanese Only

Once I receive mine, I would hopefully remember to come back here and give an update on whether it was bilingual or in Japanese only.

T Tayebi wrote:It is being sold here, at 3000 Japanese Yens +2400 Yens Shipping to USA (total of 5400 JPU = about 45 US dollars)

https://f-masanobu.jp/en/product/book-iroha/

However, the listing mentions: Precaution-Japanese Only

Once I receive mine, I would hopefully remember to come back here and give an update on whether it was bilingual or in Japanese only.

Wondering if you received your cards?