Gold and Silver Tengu Hanafuda

金銀天狗花札

Hanafuda pre-war pair pawlonia boxes (Top)

Release: Pre-WWII

Manufacturer: Marufuku Co. Ltd.

A beautiful set of gold (金) and silver (銀) Tengu (天狗) Hanafuda karuta by the Marufuku Nintendo Playing Card Company, presented in traditional Paulownia wooden boxes.

Learn more about these and other Nintendo playing cards.

In Nintendo’s earlier years before the advent of precision machine-cut cards, it was not uncommon to see misalignment or misprinting issues during the production process.

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