Concept of the Sumi Playing Cards: Artist Edition

This deck is an homage to Irezumi, the traditional Japanese tattoo art form. The Sumi Playing Cards: Artist Edition faithfully emulates the iconic elements of ukiyo-e, fantastical mythological creatures, and Heroes of the Marsh. It forges a visual playing card masterpiece like no other. It is truly a masterpiece, bursting with symbolic significance at every movement of the cards, including spins, shuffles, fans, cardistry, and more.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardexperiment/sumi-playing-cards

Excerpt from Come and Sleep by the monk Kyoukai, 9th century AD

Sumi Playing Cards – Kitsune is Card Experiment's 2nd collaboration with ToKMR Graphics following our highly successful

In Kitsune, we continue to translate and transform the traditional Japanese tattoo art form of Wabori into playing card style, retaining as well as enhancing many of the interesting and delightful features we had in Sumi Playing Cards. The focus of Kitsune centers around the fox spirit, a staple in Japanese folklore. We scoured many different sources of folktales, stories and myths about fox spirits and selected a few well-known ones as sources of inspiration for the characters in the court cards. Kistune continues to serve as a homage to Wabori and faithfully represents the visual nuances and quality that is the hallmark of Japanese traditional tattoo once again, creating a visual playing card masterpiece like no other, a masterpiece that weaves fantastical stories of begone time with modern playing card aesthetics.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardexperiment/sumi-playing-cards-kitsune

Excerpt from Come and Sleep by the monk Kyoukai, 9th century AD

Sumi Playing Cards – Kitsune is Card Experiment's 2nd collaboration with ToKMR Graphics following our highly successful

In Kitsune, we continue to translate and transform the traditional Japanese tattoo art form of Wabori into playing card style, retaining as well as enhancing many of the interesting and delightful features we had in Sumi Playing Cards. The focus of Kitsune centers around the fox spirit, a staple in Japanese folklore. We scoured many different sources of folktales, stories and myths about fox spirits and selected a few well-known ones as sources of inspiration for the characters in the court cards. Kistune continues to serve as a homage to Wabori and faithfully represents the visual nuances and quality that is the hallmark of Japanese traditional tattoo once again, creating a visual playing card masterpiece like no other, a masterpiece that weaves fantastical stories of begone time with modern playing card aesthetics.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardexperiment/sumi-playing-cards-kitsune

LIMITED EDITION: Only 1200 printed! Will NOT be reprinted. Custom numbered seal.

An homage to Wabori, the traditional Japanese tattoo art form, the Sumi Playing Cards faithfully emulates the iconic elements of Ukiyo-e, fantastical mythological creatures, and Heroes of the Marsh to forge a visual playing card masterpiece like no other. A masterpiece bursting with symbolic significance at every twirl of the cards.

The new Sumi Original Craft deck will be offered with enhancements in terms of better multi-level embossing, letterpressing, foil stamping and superior German tuck paper stock. This deck is printed by the USPCC on crushed premium stock and traditionally cut. The print run is limited to 1200 decks with numbered seals.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardexperiment/sumi-playing-cards-kitsune