Why does Japanese mahjong have two red five tubes, one red fifty thousand and one red five?

1964, the mahjong brand manufacturer ミズノノ (Mizuno Maruichi) in Osaka took the opportunity of the Tokyo Olympic Games in the same year (the other was the Osaka World Expo in 1970), and launched a mahjong brand with? Two special cards with five red tubes (representing the Olympic rings).

Later, the rules of Chibao brand gradually spread to all parts of Japan, and people in Kyushu, west of Osaka, felt that "Chibao brand can't be worn all over, which is very uncomfortable", so Akasaka and Akasaka appeared in Kyushu.

Kanto people east of Osaka thought that only the spool and the Hongbaoka were unbalanced, so they changed it to 1 Zhang 5' s ten thousand barrel rope. After all, Tokyo and Osaka have the largest number of birds and the largest number of people play the rules of Tokyo and Osaka.

Therefore, in recent years, Japanese mahjong manufacturers (Mizuno Maruyi, Dayang Chemical, Matsuoka, Ishikawa House, Honda Chenghua, etc. ) In order to ensure that both Tokyo rules (three reds) and Osaka rules (two reds) can be played, each mahjong deck is equipped with two red five tubes, 1 red five ropes and 1 red fifty thousand.

Introduction:

Japanese mahjong is called "sparrow" in Japanese, which is an important branch of mahjong rules. The title of its recording method and the way of drawing cards are different from those of Chinese mahjong, and it is a common mahjong game in Japan, usually calculated by points.