Deck description

This luxurious design is a reinterpretation of how the long discontinued Hokkaido hanafuda pattern may have looked like if it were overprinted with gold and silver paints. The beautifully detailed woodblock pattern features Japanese poems on the Chaff cards, as well as the closed umbrella on the Rain Man card and the lack of a lightning storm motif on the Willow Chaff, all of which were typical of old "Musashino" hanafuda designs from the late 1700's. Hidden Lore The Phoenix Ring: The December Light card has a gold-painted ring around the face of the Phoenix. This gold ring represents the planet Venus, whose Japanese name literally translates to "Gold Star", and is one of the original 3 brights in the early days of hanafuda, along with the Sun (January Light card) and the Full Moon (August Light Card).