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Ddakji-chigi is an old Korean children’s game: slam your ddakji down hard so that your friend’s ddakji on the floor flips over, and it becomes yours. When paper was precious, children made ddakji by gluing layers of old book covers or mulberry paper; later they folded big ones from paper such as old calendars. Japanese children play a similar flipping game called menko. This two-sheet folded ddakji is a traditional design, and nobody knows who first folded it.
Did you know? Long ago, Japanese menko were little clay disks, made from the 1700s. Lead menko came later, in the Meiji era, and paper menko became popular toward the end of that era, which ended in 1912.
