Night Parade is a yokai-themed deck that features 54-unique, fully custom, poker-sized playing cards beautifully illustrated by artist Antonietta. Inspired by traditional hanafuda, Japanese folklore, and ukiyo-e artists from from the 1700s to 1800s.
Here are some images of the deck. If you like what you see, please check out the Kickstarter and get your own copy of Night Parade! Your support will help bring this beautiful series to life!
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Night Parade Fusion Playing Cards
Night Parade Fusion is a multipurpose hanafuda+poker deck that can be used to play both Eastern and Western games. The deck features standard poker indices, hanafuda imagery, and custom hanafuda indices, so you can play all your favorite games with one deck!
January. Shuten Doji & Oni.
What is the Night Parade?
The Night Parade is an element of Japanese folklore that collectively refers to all the yokai that enter the human world at night. In some stories it is an orderly procession traveling the roads and in others it is an unruly horde spreading pandemonium.
March. Tamamo no Mae & Kitsune.
What are Yokai?
Yokai is a broad term from Japanese folklore. While it is often translated as monster, spirit, or demon, yokai actually includes a whole menagerie of supernatural beings, forces of nature, strange phenomena, and other unearthly mysteries. Yokai even includes humans who have been possessed, transformed, or spirited away.
-The tiny creatures that make your floorboards squeak at night? Yokai.
-Great great granny’s old sandals that run through the halls singing at night? Yokai.
-Colored balls of light that float over the ocean at night? Yokai.
-Earthquakes? Caused by the giant catfish yokai.
-The bumps at the foot of your bed? Your feet…. Probably.
May. Amanojaku & Akaname.
What is Hanafuda?
Hanafuda (known in Korea as ‘Hwatu’) are pipless, symbolism-rich, floral-themed playing cards that are popular in Japan, Korea, and Hawaii.
Hanafuda decks have 12 suits. Each suit is represented by a month of the year (e.g. June) and each month is represented by a flower (e.g. peony).
Hanafuda can be used to play numerous games, including traditional classics such as Koi-Koi, Hachi-Hachi (88), Go-Stop, and many many more.
Hanafuda are typically smaller and thicker than Western playing cards, however, this deck features standard poker-sized cards so that you can enjoy the rich detailed art.
July. Karakasa Kozo & Bakezori.
What is a Fusion deck?
The Night Parade Fusion decks combine standard poker indices, hanafuda imagery, and custom-designed hanafuda indices into a multipurpose deck that can be used to play both Eastern and Western games.
September. Seto-Taisho & Shiro Uneri.
Want to learn how to play hanafuda games?
There is a huge rulebook already available from IndianWolf Studios.
Hanafuda Games is an in-depth, 236-page, 37-games, full-color, hanafuda rulebook.
December. Yamata no Orochi & Orochi.
14 unique scenes!
Each month/rank was created as a polyptych so they each connect to create a scene!
Jokers/Kings. Tanuki & Kawauso
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