草短

The kusatan card combination

From 草 (kusa, “grass, weed, herb”) + clipping of 短冊 (tanzaku, “small strip of paper that can be written on”).

• IPA^(key):

草(くさ)短(たん) • (kusatan) 

1. (hanafuda) A card combination made with every hanafuda card depicting a red tanzaku without writing on it, except for that of the 雨(あめ) (ame, “rain”) suit; i.e. a combination of the wisteria tanzaku card, the iris tanzaku card, and the bush clover tanzaku card.

   Synonym: くさ

   • 2012, 一ノ瀬武志, “新しい花札入門（改訂第七版）”, in 古典ゲームの研究‎, published 2014, archived from the original on 8 October 2022, page 53:

     猪鹿蝶に限らず、表菅原、松桐坊主、月見、花見、飲み、草短、藤シマ、桐シマ、雨シマなども採用してよい、と書いてある本もあります。

     There are also books say that in addition to ino-shika-chō, it is okay to also use omote sugawara, matsu-kiri-bōzu, tsukimi, hanami, nomi, kusatan, fujishima, kirishima, ameshima, and such.

   • 2015, 謝亦玫, 趙曼君, “修平科技大學　應用日語系　題目：花札”, in 修平科技大學‎, archived from the original on 14 July 2025, page 28:

     柳に短冊が描かれた札です。草短などの役には含まれない事が多い恵まれない札です。

     A card with a tanzaku on a willow tree drawn on it. It is an unfortunate card that is often not included in yaku such as kusatan.

   • 2020 or prior, 日本かるた文化館, “（一）「八八花札」の図像の確定”, in 近代カルタ文化の研究‎, archived from the original on 12 July 2020:

     また、この短冊カード三枚を集めれば「くさたん」という役になるルールの遊技法もあった。

     There was also a method of play with a rule where you'd get the yaku "kusatan" if you collect these three tanzaku cards.

• 青(あお)短(たん) (aotan)
• 赤(あか)短(たん) (akatan)

• → Korean: 초단 (chodan) (calque)

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 草短 (kusatan).

草短 • (chodan) (hangeul 초단)

1. hanja form^? of 초단