Hanafuda
花札 / 18th century– / Style / Games and Play
Japan's cards compressing twelve months of flowers, birds, wind and moon into 48 sheets. The bold flat-color stylization on black borders grew from a history of dodging bans — and was Nintendo's starting point.
Monthly flower-and-bird designs / Black borders, flat color / Extreme simplification / Ribbon and animal combinations
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the karuta bans and mutations / Nintendo's hanafuda manufacture / regional pattern variants