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 like to meet you. If you think you have an old deck of hanafuda cards ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - For many in the senior community, the card game hanafuda brings back a lot of good moments of growing up in the islands. Here in Hawaii, there is no one more qualified to ...

We don’t get many Hanafuda games outside Japan. When one does appear, even if its made for a niche audience, it can be a big deal. That’s the case for Hololive Holo’s Hanafuda from Gemdrops, one of ...

Kosugiya aims to create public baths that honor their hundred-year long history in Japan. Since the Showa era, people often went to these public baths to wash up and relax after an exhausting day. The ...

hololive Holo’s Hanafuda will launch digitally worldwide for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch alongside its previously announced PC (Steam) version on July 31 for 3,850 yen, developer Gemdrops ...

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 ...

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.