Daitengu (大天狗, Great Tengu) was one of Nintendo’s middle-class brands of hanafuda decks.
It features a silver background with golden clouds, and a head of a red-skinned Tengu with a large, bulbous nose and a long, white beard. It is depicted with a magical feather fan called hauchiwa (羽団扇).
It is one of 6 Nintendo brands to feature a Tengu in the label, the others being Tengu, Kintengu, Ohtengu, Gintengu, and Azuma Tengu.
It was introduced in 1977 and continued to be used until as late as 1983 when it was discontinued. It ranked above the Tengu brand.
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- The Playing Card Journal of the International Playing Card Society, Vol. X, No. 2. November 1981