Hanafuda expert Marcus Richert has collected more than 100 vintage decks of hanafuda cards. Richert got interested in hanafuda after coming across a deck of vintage hanafuda cards made by Nintendo.

Hanafuda cards feature flowers and foliage from throughout the year. This Nintendo-made deck could date from between 1900 and 1930. Photo: Marcus Richert Before there was Mario, Nintendo made Japanese ...

At her home in Honolulu, our grandmother hovered above us, inspecting our cards: illustrations of wisteria, chrysanthemum, cherry and plum blossoms and, if we were lucky, a crane perched among pine ...

Nintendo might be synonymous with video games today, but the company actually got its start as a playing card company. Founded in 1889, Nintendo originally produced Hanafuda--a type of card used to ...

As we all know, Nintendo started out making playing cards - Hanafuda cards, to be precise - and although the company's focus has changed over the years, it has maintained a link with its past by ...

Nintendo’s latest My Nintendo Store European additional is a callback to the company’s roots. It used to make playing cards, and now people can actually buy some sets more easily. Both Super ...

1889: Fusajiro Yamauchi founds Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan, to manufacture hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. Western-style playing cards originally came to Japan in the 16th century with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 12—If you think you have an old deck of hanafuda cards hidden away in the garage or a closet somewhere, Marcus Richert would ...

As a fourth-generation Japanese American, photographer Will Matsuda tries to unpack some of the liminal spaces of cultural identity in America. He... At her home in Honolulu, our grandmother hovered ...