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Japanese Antiques332 of 772Antique Nippon Vase 1891 / 1921Japanese Satsuma Bowl - Signed (but cannot make out the marks)
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    Posted 10 years ago

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    llvanina
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    I bought these years ago at an antique mall just because I liked them. I think they're Japanese but don't know a lot about then. Are they a type of game?

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    1. Dizzydave Dizzydave, 10 years ago
      I believe these are Japanese Karuta Playing Cards.
    2. llvanina, 10 years ago
      Thank you. That will give me some place to start.
    3. topcop9911, 9 years ago
      These are japanese karuta playing cards circa 1750, and there are 100 poems and 100 of the people that wrote the poems, so a whole deck would be 200 cards.

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