Tanisa cartes à jouer

Tanisa is more commonly known as a Muslim woman’s name meaning “Night, Ambition, Born On Monday”, but in the case of this pack of cards it probably refers to the Malagasy word for “a game of jacks involving counting” – though it is difficult to see how this relates to the actual cards. “Tanisa” may, of course, have another meaning. For example, the pack may have been commissioned by Tanisa, a Vietnamese food production company which distributes products internationally, including to Madagascar. The pack (undated) was published by Colormad and printed by the Societé Malagasy asa Printy Miloko (Madagascar Society for Colour printing), in the capital city of Antananarivo.

The pack consists of 56 cards, including 2 Jokers, a title card and a bridge scoring card. The latter cards are in French as too are the indices on the court cards. Each court is named, though they do not seem to reflect either the early or later monarchs of the country, nor regions of the country:

• JS Imatsilo • JH Tsilavo • JC Imalina • JD Lemailaka
• QS Mirana • QH Anjarasoa • QC Hasina • QD Tsarahoby
• KS Tsiroateny • KH Tsaralaza • KC Tsarafidy • KD Tsaralanja

Above: “Tanisa cartes à jouer” published by Colormad, Madagascar. 52 cards + 2 Jokers, a title card and a bridge scoring card. Undated.

NOTE: until the late 18th century, the island of Madagascar was ruled by a fragmented assortment of shifting socio-political alliances. Beginning in the early 19th century, most of the island was united and ruled as the Kingdom of Madagascar by a series of Merina nobles. The monarchy ended in 1897 when the island was absorbed into the French colonial empire, from which the island gained independence in 1960. Since 1992, the nation has officially been governed as a constitutional democracy from its capital at Antananarivo.

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