Geisha-themed game for 2-4 players, where you compete to gain the favor of the emperor getting your character more elegant than the others.

It's a set collection game focused on getting more points at the end of the game.

At the start of Kimono you have to choose a maiko to support. You display the Kakemono board and take the six buttons for you chosen character. Depending on the number of players, you use more or less fabric cards and accessories.

Each card has a number and a pair of signs (Animal, vegetal, or three marks of the draper) which will be used to make combinations and scoring points. Cards are displayed at the center of the table, alongside the Kakemono board, in a 4 lines x 4 cards or 5x3 disposition for 2/4 players and 3 players respectively.

The main phase of the game is called the Market phase. All the fabric cards and accessories will be displayed at the centre of the table, but only those matching the selected colours.
In the draw phase, a player must draw one card that is on the extreme right of any line of their choice. Players must draw them in their turns in order to make combinations, which appear on the Kakemono board a the center of the table. That's is the way a player can score points on this game.

For example, in an attempt to make a Katyou Fugetsu kakemono player 1 will need 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 cards with the Animal mark on them. Player 1 can use 2 cards with the same number (for example 2) with the animal mark on it, and, as marked on the Kakemono board, he will score two points. Player 1 must put the button on the Kakemono board in the matching combination and no other player can make that combination again.

The end of the game arrives when each player has drawn 12 cards. In this phase, players gain points for each combination made, also if they used the 12 cards they drawn there is 2 extra points for those players. Each accessory card is equal to 1 extra point. Finally, players score how many kinds of fabric they used as listed on the kakemono board. The player with the highest score is the winner.

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