japanese playing cards

Our obssession for Sailor Moon will be fully explained/explored soon, but here are a beautiful set of cards picked up in Manchester in the late nineties. Tsuki ni kawatte oshiokio!

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Set of illustrated japanese cards bought in Kyoto. Lovely. And a lovely box to carry them in.

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these Ukiyo-E playing cards are special as we picked them up in Akita (north of japan) in a 300 year old samurai house which was amazingly preserved. from the gift shop, not gypsied out from a display or nuffin'.

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"just keep swimming....just keep swimming....."

whilst not 'strictly' japanese playing cards, these fishy cards are like a trip to the aquarium, on a glass bottomed boat with your head hanging off the side, being all sickly.

Holographic, like the future, they are lovely to look at but a pain to play with, as the "HOLOSHEEN" means holding a large run in one's hand, is a tricky beast. Eventually they slip from your grasp exposing your knowledge and power in a game of wills.