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Did You Know?
Nintendo founded in 1889, created Hanafuda playing cards
In the year 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a small company by the name of Nintendo Koppai. Yamauchi, said to be a skillful, humourous man, manually created cards that went by the name of Hanafuda, or 'flower cards.' These cards featured a variety of drawings on each, ranging from illustrations representing things such as a deer, a boar and the moon. There were twelve suits, each depicting a month of the year. Individual cards within the suits sported different symbols, each worth a certain amount of points.
Nintendo sold its hanafuda cards through its own shops in both the towns of Kyoto and Osaka, while it produced specially-themed cards to other regions. The ones that were specially drawn for the town of Kanto, for example, had illustrations of swords, humans and more. Nintendo's product quickly became the most popular of its kind in Kyoto as well as in other regions, and the company thrived and expanded. Its popularity rose mostly when hanafuda cards started being used for gambling purposes. Even the yakuza, the Japanese equivalent of the mafia, hosted such gambling exercises using the product.
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