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1. ayatori Traditional game for girls. Cat's cradle.
2. igo Representative Japanese two-player board games.
3. umeboshi Plums pickled in salt and purple perilla leaves (shiso) and dried in the sun.
4. ema Votive pictures. Pictures of horses drawn on wood.
5. origami Japanese art of paper folding.
6. karate  One of the marital arts developed in Okinawa as the art of self defense.
7. kyudo  Japanese archery, one of the martial arts.
8. kujira  Whales. An important source of animal protein used by the Japanese after World War II. 
9. keiba Horse racing, one of the popular forms of gambling authorized under public management.
10. koto Traditional Japanese stringed instrument made of wood. 

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