Tenhou Documentation

Here's documentation on the popular online mahjong client 'Tenhou' (天鳳). What with the entire website and client being in Japanese, English documentation would be pretty useful to novices. Though this doesn't teach mahjong in itself, it should explain Tenhou inside out for the end user. Email for typos, dead links, errors, complaints and such.

If you are interested in how Tenhou works, you probably want my Tenhou Protocol Documentation, which echoes some of the content here from a more technical viewpoint (for anybody interested in implementing a version of Tenhou themselves, the documentation is real helpful). There are also some tools and such to have a look at.

This documentation is split up into various files for different topics. That's basically to make it more straightforward to navigate and write. Initial dates of writing are at the top of pages, while the most recent modification dates are at the bottom.

Lots of stuff in this was translated or explained to me by people on #mahjong/Rizon. Blame them for this too. Direct contributions noted also.

This doesn't cover how to play riichi mahjong, only how to use the online client Tenhou. See Other Resources for a list of tutorials and links relative to learning.

I'm always working on this, while it might not be so apparent. See the ChangeLog for all edits done, and TODO for stuff that I plan on doing. Please also note that this documentation and resources are all under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.

2014-01-09 — Japanese mahjong wiki announcement

Thanks to the great work of the guys from IRC, there is now a growing wealth of information contained in the Japanese mahjong wiki. Feel free to join the effort!