Spirited Away adds a dash of Ghibli beauty to hanafuda flower cards【Photos】 Characters and creatures from the anime masterpiece step into the world of Japan’s traditional card game.

A classy way to play #hwatu #gostop #hanafuda

A gambler's way to play cards.

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Coringa. Baralho hwatu, da coréia. #baralho #naipes #playingcards #hwatu #hanafuda #cartas

Still can’t find a place to print my #hwatu deck 🥲

A cartoony tiger next to a maple tree with leaves falling. It’s drawn in the style oh Hwatu or Hanafuda playing cards and uses only black, red, yellow, white, and orange.

First #HwatuTarot card: The Devil. Super happy with how it turned out in matching the style. #hwatu #tarot

A photograph of the interior of an Ikea Detolf glass display cabinet, top shelf, containing a variety of different Hanafuda decks on display. There are several Nintendo ones including some with gold & silver backs, Mario cards, Mario dressed as Napoleon cards. Others appear to be hand made and show the crane card in various postures depending on the deck. These are also in wooden boxes. At the front are combination international playing card/hanafuda card decks of various types, and a very tiny keychain hanafuda. At the right is a stack of boxes which face in another direction.

This photo is taken from the right hand side of the display case and shows the boxes which were facing away in the first photo. These are all boxes of Hanafuda cards without their contents exposed. They all have traditional Japanese subjects on the front: dragons, flowers, autumn leaves, cherry blossoms, tengu, geisha, tengu masks, samurai, and Napoleon on the Nintendo box. Most of them look vintage. There are two slightly newer looking decks with different designs, one features the moon card from Hanafuda.

A photograph of the second shelf in a display cabinet with similar layout to the first. A wooden set of shelves also holds rows of Hanafuda decks. At the top-most back shelf are modern versions including some from Hawaii and which are mostly in playing-card format. The second shelf from the back holds arty types of Korean cards in boxes, as well as a deck with dancing cats on the cards and a deck produced by the company Heroku. In front of that is a row of 6 more standard Korean decks which mostly look similar to each other. At the very front are some variations in larger boxes including one called "Hana Awase" which looks like a memory matching game. There are also more boxes to the right facing in a direction which cannot be seen here.

This photo is of the decks which could not be seen in the previous photo. They are mostly character-type hanafuda including Godzilla, Hello Kitty, and Disney. Others are hanafuda variations including Koinobori and Tenshofuda (railway hanafuda). There are also two Korean decks with cute images of dogs and cats on them.

Since people seemed to like the hanafuda photos, here are some more since I just rearranged The Hanafuda Cabinet to accommodate things better, each shelf categorized by type:

1: mostly-traditional #hanafuda #花札 (Nintendo prominent at back/right)

2: Korean #hwatu #화투 & character/modern hanafuda

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