Nintendo Playing Cards Co. Ltd
In 1889, Fusajirô Yamauchi began manufacturing “Hanafuda” or “flower cards” under the brand name Nintendo Koppai. Cards were hand crafted using the bark from mulberry and mitsu-mata trees. Around 1902 the firm began producing Western style playing cards.
Loco Jumbo playing cards
54 different colour photographs of steam locomotives from around the world.
Nintendo deck with Medieval theme
Courts in medieval costume holding both French and Italian/Spanish suit-signs.
Nintendo Mario Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Special cartoon playing cards designed to accompany Nintendo's Mario series of computer games.
Onward playing cards
Advertising pack for Japanese fashion and lifestyle business featuring different national and regional costumes.
Playing cards with prints by Sumio Kawakami
Woodblock print designs created by Sumio Kawakami in 1938-9, each card having a different illustration.
Seiko fashion cards
Men's and ladies fashion playing cards published for the Seiko Corporation by Nintendo, Japan, 1971.
Torys Western Cards
Promotional pack for a brand of Japanese whisky, featuring comic Wild West characters.
