Genso & Densho Playing Cards marks the second collaboration between Card Experiment and Yosuke Ando, a Tokyo-based graphic designer who worked on Musha & Goketsu Playing Cards. Card Experiment continues to pursue the intricate and colorful 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 maintain a highly distinctive woodblock printing style and, at the same time, preserve playing card design sensibilities.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 for 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.Densho tuck cases are made of premium quality paper stock by GMUND from Germany. Hot foil stamped and letterpressed in Hong Kong.Cards printed by The United States Playing Card Company.Produced by Card Experiment.
