Hanetsuki
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Hanetsuki is a Japanese traditional game, similar to racket games like badminton but without a net, played with a rectangular wooden paddle called a hagoita and a brightly coloured shuttlecock, called
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Hanetsuki paddles (left) and shuttlecocks (right) being sold at a shop in a train station.
Battledore and shuttlecock
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Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a game ancestral to the modern sport of badminton. It is played by two or more people using small rackets, made of parchment or rows of gut stretched a
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…At the beginning of the game's development, soapberry nuts were often used as shuttlecocks. Battledore and shuttlecock…
William Beechey, Kenneth Dixon playing with a shuttlecock, c. 1790.