A personal review of “Shuriken” playing cards (gold version).
Its Designs
The card back design. 9 words of the common ninja spell are written.
This is the Joker. Can you feel the texture of the card surface?
I tried a combination of this deck with “Japanese Wa Tarot“. Perfect match, isn’t it! Since the playing card decks can be used as a substitute for tarots’ minor arcana, you can enjoy your own tarot with any playing card decks you like.
Overview/Features
Its size is 82mm in the widest and 45mm in the narrowest part. Two jokers included in this deck. In addition to this gold version, there are also silver and black colour variations. All three colours are so attractive that made me hard to choose one.
There is also “Koban (oval old coin)” playing cards in the market. The colour is gold only.
Personal Impressions
What I like
Very good quality with a texture of metal-like feel. It’s thin and bow material, and there seems to be no worry of injury. To my surprise, it’s easy to shuffle this deck because of the card shape where fingers are caught.
What I don’t like
None. Numbers in each card is a bit hard to recognise, because it is in gold and too bright! That’s all!
Where to buy
This is available at major shops and easily found in net shopping (as of March 2020).
Wrap Up
I personally liked this deck very much. Well, I also want a “Koban” deck too.