Bicycle 幻想 Genso Blue (Red Words) Playing Cards, USPCC 2021, designed by Yosuke Ando for Card Experiment, Japanese folklore, culture, traditional Japanese woodblock printing style. Out of Print. Brand new, sealed with cellophane

Description

– Launched on Kickstarter on Jul 2020. 540 backers pledged HK$ 260,670 or SGD $45,023 to help bring this project to life. (out of a goal of HKD $100,000)
– Check out the YouTube review by VJose32

– Available editions :
1. Bicycle 幻想 Genso Blue (Red Words)
2. Bicycle 幻想 Genso Green (Green Words)
3. Bicycle 坛承 Densho Blue (Red Words)
4. Bicycle 坛承 Densho Green (Green Words)

* There is no need to collect Genso Blue – price has jumped significantly since it is now Out of Print and rarer to find.
* The cards are exactly the same as Genso Green just a different colour.
* Genso Green is still available at a reasonable price from the official wholesaler Murphy’s Magic.

Popular Japanese folk tales imagined using premium playing cards in modern Japanese woodblock prints visual style. Printed by USPCC.

Card Experiment is delighted to present a new project in their 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 their second collaboration with Yosuke Ando (@yske_ando), a Tokyo-based, graphic designer that they have worked with for our previous project, Musha & Goketsu Playing Cards. They 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.

Densho tuck cases made of premium quality paper stock by GMUND from Germany. Hot foil stamped and letter pressed in Hong Kong.