Ohtengu (王天狗, King Tengu) was one of Nintendo’s middle-class brands of hanafuda decks.
It features a gold background, and a portrait of a red-skinned Tengu with a long nose and a long, white beard. It is depicted holding 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, Azuma Tengu, Gintengu, and Daitengu.
Brand names aside, this brand is treated as almost the same brand as Tengu and Kintengu, as all 3 brands feature a gold background and feature similar Tengu illustrations.
The brand was probably used around the 1930’s to the early 1940’s. There were several existing decks that appeared on the internet, but the year of manufacture could not be reliably estimated. It was also known to be sold in Korea when it was still occupied by Japan.
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“Yellow Text Ohtengu”. |
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“Black Text Ohtengu”. |
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Used in two-deck wooden boxes. Bottom text says “Marufuku Yamauchi Nintendo”. |
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Used in two-deck wooden boxes. Bottom text says “Yamauchi Nintendo Keijo Shiten” (Yamauchi Nintendo Keijo Branch Office). Nintendo used to have a branch office in Keijo, Korea (now Seoul, South Korea). |