{"id":2852,"date":"2015-10-26T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2015-10-31T07:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T07:38:45","slug":"hanafuda-japanese-flower-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/hanafuda-japanese-flower-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanafuda &#8211; Japanese Flower Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a deck of Japanese Flower Cards while in Japan since I like games and it was both interesting and inexpensive. The cards look really neat\u00a0but a\u00a0bit difficult to get used to because they are not numbered. The deck consist of 48 cards, 12 sets of 4 cards illustrated to represent each month of the year with specific leaves or flowers that relate to that month.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00844KV2G\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00844KV2G&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=mooncent-20&amp;linkId=EGHIV6SC2AFIX4MK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00844KV2G&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=mooncent-20\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daiso Flower Cards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=mooncent-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00844KV2G\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found a website called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanafuda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hanafuda<\/a> that has some interesting information on how to play Hanafuda and on the history of it. One interesting bit described how Nintendo was originally formed as a Hanafuda deck manufacturer. Neat!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of the 19th century, the Nintendo corporation was founded for the sole purpose of producing hand-painted Hanafuda decks. This would be their primary source of income for nearly a hundred years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanafuda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hanafuda.com<\/a> has an online Hanafuda game you can play. It&#8217;s a quick, fun matching game so give it a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a deck of Japanese Flower Cards while in Japan since I like games and it was both interesting and inexpensive. The cards look really neat\u00a0but a\u00a0bit difficult to get used to because they are not numbered. The deck consist of 48 cards, 12 sets of 4 cards illustrated to represent each month of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,32],"tags":[75,26],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-japan","tag-games","tag-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hanafuda_b1.jpg?fit=5184%2C3456&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-K0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}