Card Experiment is delighted to present a new project in our Japanese culture series, the Genso & Densho Playing Cards. The focus of Genso
& Densho Playing Cards is to introduce popular Japanese folk tales
featuring encounters with semi-legendary protagonists, supernatural
births, and fantastical creatures. Japanese folk tales, like folklore
all around the world, distill nuggets of folk wisdom in stories that are
attention grabbing and easy to understand, especially to children.
Through these stories, morals and lessons that are important to the
Japanese culture and have endured the passage of time can be glimpsed
and appreciated, and continue to be passed down for generations to come.
Genso
& Densho Playing Cards marks the our second collaboration with
Yosuke Ando, a Tokyo-based, graphic designer that we have worked with
for our previous project, Musha & Goketsu Playing Cards. We continue
to pursue the intricate and colourful visual style of traditional
Japanese woodblock printing as seen in Musha & Goketsu Playing Cards
with a touch of modern twist and playfulness. Genso and Densho Playing
Cards maintains a highly distinctive woodblock printing style and at the
same time preserving playing card design sensibilities.