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Japanese Playing Cards

Japanese playing cards include: 'Awase' or 'matching pairs' cards and Portuguese or Spanish-derived 'Dragon' type cards.

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Tensho Mekuri - Japan 2003

Tensho Mekuri - Japan

Tensho Mekuri cards hand-made by Patricia Kirk, 2003.

Tokyo Disneyland Playing Cards 1987

Tokyo Disneyland Playing Cards

Disney themed playing cards featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends; available at Tokyo Disneyland in 1987.

Torys Western Cards 1967

Torys Western Cards

Promotional pack for a brand of Japanese whisky, featuring comic Wild West characters.

Ukiyo-E (Nintendo) 1969

Ukiyo-E (Nintendo)

Classic examples of Ukiyo-E painting.

Unimol playing cards 1970

Unimol playing cards

Advertising pack for a pharmaceutical company, with brightly coloured courts.

Unsun Karuta 1780

Unsun Karuta

Unsun Karuta うんすんかるた Japan c.1780.

Uta Garuta

Uta Garuta

These cards are basically a poetry anthology (the Hyakunin Isshu, or 百人一首), transposed onto cards.

Utamaro “Ukiyo-e” playing cards

Utamaro “Ukiyo-e” playing cards

Utamaro Ukiyo-e playing cards showing woodblock prints of beautiful women.