Sorry about the shitty camera angle..My Camera Man was drunk as we were filming. JK!

28.01.10

TOKYO — As I gazed up enthralled at the ornate, pink columns in the ancient city of Petra, I heard the annoying chant again: “Chi chi no cement.” My 10-year-old son and his cousins were shouting the words to a Japanese hand game in which players try to predict how many thumbs will be up or down at the end of the call. Throughout our winter holiday tour of Jordan, the boys kept at it.

Their obsession with the game was exasperating for us parents trying to listen to the guide, not to mention hoping to broaden the children’s horizons.

On the other hand, it was good to know that in the age of Nintendo and Play Station, children can still entertain themselves with just their thumbs. In fact, hand games may be the play of choice for modern-day parents. They can be educational, creative and improve hand-eye coordination and response time. And as my son Yataro says, “You don’t have to worry about batteries.”

Traditional hand games and their modern variations permeate Japanese society. After returning with a rusty fist from living overseas, I’ve now honed my skills for the mother of all hand games, janken, or rock, scissors and paper. (Rock seems to be the most common first throw.) At school, the mothers engage in heated rounds to assign PTA duties, and at my tennis class we decide our rotation order by the game.

Source: International Herald Tribune

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