dec 24, 1890 - Nintendo begins making high quality karuta cards for hanafuda card games.
Description:
In Japan, these cards and card games were illegal, but in the 1800s the ban was lifted, and happy, Fusajiro, the founder, began Nintendo the company, in the endeavor of making karuta cards at a high quality. Karuta cards used a different system to overcome the once-banned standard cards.Added to timeline:
Date:
dec 24, 1890
Now
~ 135 years ago