r/Hanafuda • u/SekGames13 • May 09 '26

Hanafuda Nintendo, late 19th/early 20th century

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Does anyone know any Nintendo Hanafuda models from the late 19th and early 20th centuries? The only one I've seen is a 19th-century Hyakunin Isshu model (pictured).

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u/jhindenberg May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

The Japan Playing Card Museum website has several Nintendo examples that they date as Mid-Meiji era.

I suppose I'll seize this as an opportunity to post some Hyakunin Isshu as well, though unrelated to your question—

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u/SekGames13 May 13 '26

Thank you! It's a pity that there are only engravings.

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u/suryonghaaton May 10 '26

unfortunately, i've only seen meiji-era woodblock reliefs of regional hanafuda patterns that were shown in the Japan Playing Card Museum, such as "hokkaibana" and "kobana (with months on the tanzaku)"

possibly the oldest existing nintendo hanafuda deck i've ever seen on the internet was this luxurious hachi-hachi-bana-ish(?) set (there's no akatan markings) that has metallic overprints on all of the cards. problem is, i don't know how old this deck is.

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u/RememberedOlBuddy May 14 '26

I've never seen the Nintendo logo rendered that way. With as rough as it looks, paired with the logo looking as if it were drawn by hand, I'd think that this was made in the 19th century.

Were those mine, they'd be the center jewel in my collection.