Database of Modern Tarot Art - Far East Zone

Based on Adam McLean's Tarot Collection
This is the first sytematic and exhaustive study of modern tarot art.
Version 1.4 July 3rd 2013 - 1183 items.
Europe (UK, France, Italy, Russia, etc)  The Americas (USA, Canada, South America, etc)


Please note: all the text and research information is ©Adam McLean.
It is my own intellectual property and I do not allow this to be copied and used by others.
This database represents years of collecting and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of my research,
documentation, keyboarding and formatting the information I have gathered.
Copying this information onto another site is a straight theft of my intellectual property.
For each of these entries I have had the actual tarot in my own hands.
This is not a cut and paste job from images and descriptions on the Internet, but original primary research.
It is, of course, immediately recognisable and I will legally pursue anyone appropriating it.

Mirrorstarot
Artist : Cyberstar
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 117
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a small box with a sliding sheath. A small illlustrated instruction book is also enclosed. Printed in soft matt.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program. Much use of gradient fills.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Rider-Waite clone
Maid from Hell
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 50
Width : 29
Shape :
Description : Press out cards with a self assembly box, issued with some unidentified childrens' magazine as a free gift. Most of the cards have butterflies in the backgrounds.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Square
Other Borders
Figurative
Manga
Magazine
Children's
Furoku or gift
Ku Sakurano Tarot
Artist : Ku Sakurano
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Self published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a box with a book. The book for this children's tarot strangely incorporates magical diagrams and the complex engraving from Athanasius Kircher of the Kabbalistic Tree.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program. Some use of collaged elements in the background on some cards.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Self-Published
Elota tarot (78 card version)
Artist : A Chu family
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition : 100
Height : 120
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : This is supplied with another photographic set of Majors. On the back of the cards is ''Elota. The adventure about searching for losing heart''. Supplied with a CD-Rom containing an illustrated guide book to this tarot.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :100
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with pips
Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Fairy Tarot
Artist : Yo Su-Lan
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1998
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 187
Width : 127
Shape :
Description : Line drawn illustrations in a booklet. Issued in coloured versions as the 'Ideal Phone Card Tarot' and 'Love Will Find the Way Tarot'.
Art Medium : Pen drawings with some halftones.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Large
Black & White
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Book Illustration
Coming Fantasy Valley
Artist : Yu-Mei Kuo
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 114
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Intense saturated colours. The figures all have stylised mask-like faces. The figures are sharply delineated standing out from the diffuse out of focus background layers. Supplied with a fold out booklet.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
Doubts Story Tarot
Artist : Naiyuan
Designer :
Text :Bao-Ling
Date : 2012
Publisher : Cite Publishing Group
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : The Minors are in a strange mixture of styles. Wands and Pentacles have artwork designed to interest young children, while the Cups and Sword have a more sophisticated imagery that older chldren would be more likely to respond to. The imagery in the Majors holds close to the traditional forms. The artwork is very detailed and of the highest quality. Supplied in a box with a cut out section for the cards, and a substantial book written by a famous Taiwanese fortune-teller Bao-Ling (Grace).

Art Medium : Although these look like pen drawings coloured with watercolour they could also have been created digitally.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Dream CityTarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 149
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Created as a graduation project.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Collaborative
Poetry Attitude Tarot
Artist : Jack Chang
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 300
Height : 184
Width : 100
Shape :
Description : This was a gift issued with a CD entitled 'Poetry Attitude' by Jack Chang an international performer of house music. Jack Chang also created the artwork for this deck. The artwork is quite striking. Supplied in silver bag with a fold out leaflet describing the tarot arcana.
Art Medium : Sketchy outlines probably in coloured pencil, which were then coloured using watercolour or coloured inks. The paper will have been wetted so that the colours create flow lines.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :300
Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Abstract
Fine Art
Furoku or gift
Der Jen China Tarot
Artist : De Zhen (Dezhen)
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 121
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book. Later published by Lo Scarabeo as the 'China Tarot', 2006.
Art Medium : Paintings, probably in acrylic, modified in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with pips
Figurative
Punk's Tarot
Artist : Yang Xun Li
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 88
Width : 58
Shape :
Description : Punk's Tarot is a full 78 card deck with fully illustrated pip cards. It is a childrens deck somewhat in the style of the Hello Tarot, Stick Figure Tarot, or Peanuts cartoon. Anyway, like these other childrens decks Punk's Tarot is great fun. The small format cards come in a little gauze bag with a tie. The majors are titled but not numbered. The minors follow the Rider/Waite, Pamela Colman Smith emblems.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings with applied process colour.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Rose Knight Tarot
Artist : Nell
Designer :Hsu Chi Chun
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Love Tarot
Artist : Cheryl Shen
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Softtek
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a transparent acetate box with book and set of 22 bookmarks using the images in the tarot deck. The deck is printed on smooth card but using a computer generated linen effect.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Prince of Star Tarot
Artist : Xing Xing Wang Zi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1995
Publisher : SPP
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 56
Shape :
Description : The printer appears to have stretched the images to fit on the more elongated format of Chinese cards. Thus some circles appear as ellipses. Supplied in a box with cut-out foam section and a book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
Legend of the Sun Knight Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : The Legend of Sun Knight is a 2010 Taiwanese novel by Yu Wo adapted into a manhua illustrated by Os Rabbit Cat. The story takes place in a fantasy world where there are multiple gods and the earth is divided into many countries and religions. The God of Light has twelve Knights led by the Sun Knight.
This tarot would appear to be a fan art deck.
Art Medium : Created digitally.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Mythic Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 76
Limited Edition :
Height : 102
Width : 71
Shape :
Description : Twenty two majors plus set of 52 playing cards with two Jokers. Supplied in a box with a book. The book has many illustration of five girls, so it may be a tarot issued in connection with some television program featuring five female characters.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :76
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Nonstandard
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
City Light Tarot by Max
Artist : Max
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : J.B. Magic Publishing Co., Ltd.
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Each of the Minor Arcana bears a keyword which is used to choose the image on that card. Supplied in a large box with a book.
Art Medium : Collaged photographs modified in a computer graphics program, and using a filter to make them appear as oil paintings.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Photography
Linda Tarot (Easy Learn Tarot)
Artist : Linda
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Wisdom Books
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 114
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Boxed tarot with large book. Rider Waite clone in clean simple lines.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with half-tone process colour, or coloured with simple flat colour in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
Easy 3+1 Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher : Fundation Digital Entertainment Co, Ltd.
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Supplied in small box with booklet. Figures are depicted with over large heads.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
My First Tarot (Be a tarot master )
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Bafun Books
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 86
Shape :
Description : Cut out cards printed on heavy stock at the back of a book.
Art Medium : Probably created entirely digitally. Lines appear to be drawn using straight line segments. Coloured with flat low- contrast colour with no modelling.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Love Tarot
Artist : Angus
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Cards in plastic pockets at the end of a large paperback book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Magic Tarot
Artist : Mauris
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Images are collaged primarily from sections of classic Western paintings.
Art Medium : Computer manipulated photo-collage.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Fine Art
Photography
Fantasy :1
Lunatic
Artist : Evan Yi Feng
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Kadokawa Comics Illustration
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 252
Width : 132
Shape :
Description : This Taiwanese deck was issued as a portfolio of large format 'cards' loosely bound on their top edge into a perfect bound book, so that it was easy to disassemble in order to have a set of large cards. The artwork was very detailed and really needed that large format. A year later the card designs were issued as a standard format deck with the cards being slightly cropped to fit the space. It is a contemporary, in-your-face, gothic, neo-symbolist Tarot. The card titles are printed on the rear of the card black and white version of one of the Rider Waite decks leaving the face for the imagery. Though born in Hong Kong, Evan has now based himself in Taiwan and has worked on many art projects. He is not only an accomplished expressive painter but also an illustrator and sculptor. Evan’s artwork has been favourably compared to Klimt, and although one sees some influences from there, his reach is much wider. He has obviously studied the symbolist and decadent painters of the late 19th century, and though he does not copy their style, in some way he seems to be working out of this aesthetic. His tarot, apart from a handful of cards, expresses its ideas through a human figure. This figure is usually sharply drawn and painted, while the backgrounds in many cases are just blocked in with washes of colour and texture, often over graphically collaged flowers. In places he has inserted what, to a first glance, seem to be sketched construction lines for his figures, however, as these are on top of the painted surface it is just a neat device to make the photorealism of the paintings appear more spontaneous and lively. He is a true master of his medium being willing to incorporate tricks like this. He uses a small group of models (a young woman and two men) who thus appear on many of the cards and this integrates the imagery and ties the whole concept neatly together. It is likely that he worked by initially taking precisely posed and well lit photographs as the basis for the paintings. The figures are often depicted in BDSM chic, with leather straps and rivets, some having facial piercings. The Queen and King card of each suit are in a more classic symbolist fin-de-siècle style, rather than the modern bondage fashionware. These are sumptuous images, and though some of the images seem disturbing on an initial glance, this is not a dark gothic deck, but merely one glorifying a style, underneath the outer surface of which lies rather conventional tarot imagery. The Minor arcana closely echo the familiar emblematic material of the Rider Waite deck.
Art Medium : Oil paintings often using thin scraped layers to give textured areas. These have then been imported into a computer graphics program and modified with collaged elements.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Large
Corners Square
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Erotic
Fine Art
Gothic/horror
Magic Tarot
Artist : Angus
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Joy Publishing Corp.
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 108
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Boxed tarot containing a large book and a CD Rom with tarot fortune telling program.
Art Medium : Computer graphics.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Lowa's Secret Tarot
Artist : Lo Ah
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Ton Chee Culture Publishing Corporation Ltd
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 129
Width : 72
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Thick pen outlines coloured with watercolour or gouache.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Rider Waite order
Minors with pips
Love Will Find the Way Tarot
Artist : Yo Su-Lan
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : Reworked version of Ideal Phone Card Tarot, with some images reversed, backgrounds simplified, and some detail removed. Also printed in elongated Chinese card proportions. The ealiest version of these designs appear to have been issued in a book in 1998, 'Fairy Tarot'.
Art Medium : Pencil or fine pen drawings coloured with airbrushed watercolours, to give smooth transitions.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Tarot Deck of Athennium
Artist :
Designer :Neko
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Neko Production
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 146
Width : 75
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Possibly created using Poser or similar software.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Devil's Tarot
Artist : S.H. Yuan
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1993
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : S.H. Yuan also produced the Dark Tarot.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Black & White
Corners Square
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Surreal
Self-Published
Stella's Simple Tarot
Artist : Takako Hoei
Designer :Stella Kaoruka
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Takako Hoei is an established Japanese painter with an individual style. Stella Kaoruka is a well known tarot reader and astrologer. Supplied in a box with an illustrated book. This deck was published originally in Japan, then in Taiwan and Korea. Later a full 78 card deck was produced.
Art Medium : Acrylic paintings.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Fine Art
Buddhist tarot (Thailand)
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009 (possibly)
Publisher :
Country : Thailand
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 66
Shape :
Description : This appears to be a deck issued with a magazine. Each card background is in a different, rather luminous colour.
Art Medium : Photographs of Buddhist sculptures and paintings.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Mythological
Epic of Unlight Tarot
Artist : Saya
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 160
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Unlight is an online Role Playing Game which uses cards. This is a fan art production, not intended as actual game playing cards but images and characters from the game placed in a tarot context. There is at least one other Unlight fan art tarot.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Large
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Fantasy :1
Doujinshi
Game
Fantasyland Tarot
Artist : Mei
Designer :
Text :Meng Xiaojing
Date : 2009
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 79
Shape :
Description : Supplied with an explanatory book and diary.
Art Medium : Coloured pencil.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Love of Tarot
Artist : Mo Li Si
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 109
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Press out cards in a tarot instruction book entitled Love of Tarot.
Art Medium : Computer manipulated photo-collage.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Accurate Prediction Tarot (Tarot Text Game)
Artist : Lin Yao De, Chen Lu You
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 137
Width : 97
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a protective sleeve with a book and a small booklet. The figures are reduced to simple forms and the faces are in cubist or Picasso style with profile and full face shown simultaneously. One part of these faces are here often coloured gold or yellow.
Art Medium : Coloured pencils or pastels on textured paper. Modified at the printing stage with areas of solid gold
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Rainbow Story Book
Artist : A.M.
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 149
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : The artist used the initials A.M. on the cards. Uses intense colour at the edges of forms to create impression of depth.
Art Medium : Coloured pencil.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Fairytale Tarot
Artist : Antonella Castelli
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : SPP (Sharp Point Press)
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : This is a version of the Spirit of Flowers Tarot, originally issued by Lo Scarabeo in 2003. This has been given Chinese titles in addition to the English and the artwork set in a different border.
This version was apparently a free gift with a January 2012 issue of one of the SPP group of manga, games and pop music magazines in Taiwan.
Art Medium : Watercolour paintings
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Magazine
Children's
Furoku or gift
Shen Zhou Tarot
Artist : S.K.Y.
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 81
Shape :
Description : Printed on matt silver surfaced card. The deck may be named in honour of the famous Chinese painter of the Ming dynasty. It is rather well printed in black line on a silver background, with the titles in red circles. The original pen drawings are beautifully conceived, and show us the artist's subtle sense of humour. Thus the Fool is an elephant carrying the mountain on his back rather than being about to step off a precipice. The Moon has a rabbit at its centre seeming to be pounding something in a mortar. We recall that in Chinese mythology, the Jade Rabbit was seen in the markings of the moon as a rabbit pounding herbs in a mortar to make the Elixir of life for the Moon goddess Chang'e.
Art Medium : Pen drawings.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
Ideal Phone Card Tarot
Artist : Yo Su-Lan
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher : Taiwan Telecom
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 145
Width : 95
Shape :
Description : Soft, ethereal forms. Remarkably fine artwork for a promotional deck. Issued later with some variations as the 'Love Will Find the Way Tarot'. The ealiest version of these designs appear to have been issued in a book in 1998, 'Fairy Tarot'.
Art Medium : Pencil or fine pen drawings coloured with airbrushed watercolours, to give smooth transitions.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Large
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Promo
Numen of the Tarot (Temple Wizard Tarot)
Artist : William
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : SPP - Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : The title can perhaps be understood to refer to the power or the spiritual presence of tarot. The figures are all fairy or elven like with pointed ears. Supplied in a large box, with a tarot pouch and a small blank notebook.
Art Medium : Paintings, possibly acrylic, with some elements in the backgrounds of some cards probably collaged in some computer graphics software.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Pagan
Mythological
Cosplay Tarot Card Millenium
Artist : Hiru
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2001
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : Supplied with a booklet in a solid box with magnetic closer. Includes tarot pouch and cloth.
Art Medium : Posed photographs with collaged backgrounds and some other collage elements
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Photography
Tongli Monthly
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 115
Width : 53
Shape :
Description : Gift in an issue of Tongli Monthly.
Art Medium : Various artists, mostly using pen drawn outlines coloured with watercolour or with a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Magazine
Children's
Collaborative
Furoku or gift
Cat's Tarot
Artist : Terry Tsai
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher : Rong Liu Yuan Book and Publishing Co., Ltd
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 75
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a cut-out protective sleeve with a book.
Art Medium : Created using computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Animal
Cat
Children's
Lord of the Rings Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 121
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book. Authorised and licensed images from the copyright holders of the trilogy of films. The photographs for the Majors have been chosen to reflect the tarot archetypes.
Art Medium : Photographs from the film production.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Minors with emblems
Figurative
Photography
Amorist Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 94
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : Intense, saturated colours. Press out deck at the back of a book.
Art Medium : Pen outlines coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Children's
Furoku or gift
Ragnarok Online
Artist : Lee Myoungjin
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Gravity Corp. / Gameflier International Corp.
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 85
Width : 53
Shape :
Description : This is a hardbound book in which the 22 cards in laminated pouches have been permanently glued in. As they are set in transparent pocket it may have been intended that these could have been removed, but somehow during the production they were permanently glued in.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Manga
Computer Game
Book Illustration
Miao-Miao (Mew Mew) Tarot
Artist : Chi Miao Hsieh and Ruo Chi You
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 111
Width : 70
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program. Possibly originated entirely digitally.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
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Figurative
Children's
Psyche Tarot
Artist : Cyvern7
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Silkbook
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 157
Width : 89
Shape :Oval
Description : Cyvern7 is a female graphics artist in Taiwan. These strange images supposedly reflect the soul or psyche. Large oval shaped cards. Supplied in a large box with a descriptive book.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program, using some collaged photographs heavily modified.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Shiseido Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 79
Width : 50
Shape :
Description : Promotional deck for Shiseido White Lucent makeup. Possibly issued as push outs in a magazine.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : D
Majors
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Promo
Magazine
Furoku or gift
Unlock your Secret Tarot (Tarot Rica)
Artist : Li Qian (Rica Chain)
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 103
Width : 73
Shape :
Description : The title can also be translated as ''codes for reading your mind". It is also referred to as the 'Rica Tarot'. Double headed figures created in collage. Supplied with a large paperback book.

Art Medium : Collaged parts of photographs and prints.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Vivien's Astrology Tarot for Beginners
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book.
Art Medium : Probably originated entirely in Computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Manga
Royal Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1995
Publisher : Kuo Kau Paper ProductsCo. Ltd
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 129
Width : 74
Shape :
Description : Sensitively coloured popular deck.
Art Medium : Thick pen outlines coloured with water based pigments.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : D
Majors
Minors
Standard
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Minors with pips
Figurative
Self Reading Tarot
Artist : Tia
Designer :
Text :Alice N.H. Chen
Date : 2008
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 103
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : Cat themed Rider Waite clone deck, but strangely uses the Marseilles order in the Majors. Cards are given Astrological and elemental attributions. Supplied with a large detailed book with colour reproductions of each of the cards.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Square
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Minors with emblems
Figurative
Cat
Rider-Waite clone
Pokemon Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 89
Width : 62
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Majors
Minors
Corners Square
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Minors with emblems
Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Elf of Heaven Tarot
Artist : Cola King
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 121
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolours.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
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Standard
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Figurative
Children's
Rider-Waite clone
Ghostplay Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 135
Width : 74
Shape :
Description : Dark, intense, powerful imagery. Supplied with a set of 22 bookmarks using the imagery from the cards.
Art Medium : Posed photographs, then photo-collaged in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Surreal
Gothic/horror
Self-Published
Photography
Tarot of Pili
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Pili International Multimedia Co Ltd
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Pili is a long running puppet television show in Taiwan. For this tarot, puppets from the show have been posed to reflect the tarot images. Supplied in a strong box with an illustrated booklet.
Art Medium : Photo collage using dolls.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Photography
Kei tarot
Artist : Kei
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 155
Width : 65
Shape :Elongated
Description : Beautifully stylish artwork, primarily grey and black but with very restrained use of some reds and yellows on some of the cards to produce an emphasis. It focusses entirely on the gesture and posture of the human figure, with no backgrounds and only small elements held by the figures to suggest the archetype of the particular arcana.
It would appear to be printed in litho, with a top layer of black glossy varnished ink.
Cards unnumbered and with some spelling errors in titles - 'The Empror', 'Whell of Fortune', 'The Eierophant'.
Art Medium : Though made to look like pen and brushed ink on fibre filled paper, this is more likely to have been created entirely digitally.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Corners Square
Black Borders
Figurative
Fine Art
Self-Published
Grecian Eudaemon Tarot
Artist : Selena Lin
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 56
Shape :
Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book. Reissued in the USA in 2006 as the Manga Tarot.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings coloured in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Manga
Children's
Tarot in Taiwan 2000
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2000
Publisher : H.T.Q. Present
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 135
Width : 65
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Pen or pencil drawings, coloured with watercolour or in copmuter graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Manga
Children's
Collaborative
Fantasy Manga Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2003
Publisher : Square Enix
Country : Japan
No of cards : x
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 80
Shape :
Description : This appears to be a sampler or perhaps a furoku deck showcasing the artists working for the game company Square Enix. Each card is by a different artist.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :x
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Promo
Collaborative
Great Love Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 95
Width : 51
Shape :
Description : The Great Love Tarot is a gift apparently given away with a manga. The artwork is quite original with some rather interesting new interpretations of the conventional tarot imagery. It has been created in a computer graphics program, possibly using a figure drawing program such as Poser.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
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Figurative
Furoku or gift
Evangelion Nerv Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 159
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Neon Genesis Evangelion is a long running Japanese manga and anime series initially created in 1995. It presents an apocalyptic mecha action story, revolving around the efforts of a paramilitary organization Nerv to fight hostile beings called Angels, using giant humanoids called Evangelions that are piloted by select teenagers. Fan art deck.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Large
Corners Square
Black Borders
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Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Doujinshi
Kosmokrator
Artist : Muramatsu Katsura
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 200
Height : 135
Width : 76
Shape :
Description : This is a Japanese majors only deck created from black and white photographs by the artist Muramatsu Katsura. Each image was originally created as large silver gelatine emulsion prints (the older method for printing out black and and white photographs). Here the artist has overprinted two or three different negatives to create the final image (a bit like photoshop layers but done in the darkroom with an enlarger rather than using a computer). The images are quite enigmatic and not immediately recognisable as tarot images. The cards come in a rather stylish concertina like black folder with a silver cover. Thus one can open out the concertina and have all the cards in a line. They are held into the folder by little slits which enable the cards to be easily removed and replaced.
Art Medium : Black and white gelatine photographs.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :200
Price indication : A
Majors
Standard
Black & White
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Abstract
Fine Art
Mari Mihori Unmei Tarot
Artist : Mari Mihori
Designer :
Text :Tomoko Taguchi
Date : 2000
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Like her 'Ai No Tarot', Mihori has the same unconventional numbering for some of the cards. This deck is very creative, and she does not copy imagery from familiar decks but instead reworks it in her own way. This is one of the many treasures of Japanese tarot. The cards are in the foam padded box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Paintings, possibly using some photo collage.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
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Figurative
New Rider Waite
Artist : Alexandria Mokuseioh
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2011
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 115
Width : 72
Shape :
Description : The original images of the Rider-Waite deck have been scanned and the existing colouring removed. This has then been recoloured with much more saturated colours, often using acidic oranges and yellows. Modelling has been added to some of the figures but not consistently. The numbers have been placed in the lower bar and each card is re-titled in an Art Deco typeface.
Alexandria Mokuseioh is one of the best known of Japanese tarot designers, having issued at least ten decks.
Supplied in a box with substantial book.
Art Medium : Scans of original deck recoloured.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
Peace Tarot
Artist : Misuzu Itateyama
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 73
Shape :
Description : The rather beautiful watercolour paintings, with no hard outlines, celebrate traditional Japanese culture.
Art Medium : Watercolours.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :2 extra cards
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Self-Published
Morinaga Hi-Crown Original Tarot II
Artist : Susumu Matsushita
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1995
Publisher : Morinaga Hi-Crown Chocolate company
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 116
Width : 76
Shape :
Description : In the 1990s the Morinaga Hi-Crown Chocolate company included a gift token with its chocolate products. If a customer sent back sufficient tokens, they would receive a tarot deck in a stitched faux leather pouch with a velcro closer. The company commissioned two decks, apparently, one for their plain and one for their milk chocolate. This one by Susumu Matsushita is in a modern, in-your-face, cartoon style. Matsushita had originally created some of these images for an anthology of writings on the Tarot, edited by Masao Ono in 1978, but reworked them for the Morinaga version.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Promo
Matsumura Tarot
Artist : Kiyoshi Matsumura
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Oregon Farm
Country : Japan
No of cards : 81
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Fool (22) is renamed ''Reorganisation''. The three extra Majors 23-24-25 Traffic, Endless and Lock, possibly may be read as four Fools.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program. The lines are made to look as if they were scanned at a low resolution to give a 'blocky' and 'stepped' appearance. This seems to be merely a stylised device as some detailed shading lines are smooth.
No of Cards :81
Extra Cards :Fool (22) is renamed ''Reorganisation''. Three extra Majors 23-24-25 are Traffic, Endless and Lock.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Fool 22
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Minors with emblems
Figurative
Surreal
Fine Art
Pringles tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : GT-Agency
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 58
Width : 41
Shape :
Description : Promotional deck for Pringles crisps.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
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Figurative
Promo
Angel Girl
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Aniland
Country : South Korea
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 85
Width : 58
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Inu Yasha
Artist : Rumiko Takahashi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Diawon
Country : South Korea
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 115
Width : 60
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Manga
Children's
Anime Goth
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher : Aniland
Country : South Korea
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 60
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Manga
Children's
Gothic/horror
Insects Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : South Korea
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 85
Width : 58
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
White Borders
Figurative
Keishobou Tarot
Artist : Gaichi Muramatsu
Designer :
Text :Isao or Kaoru Nakai
Date : 1973
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 67
Shape :
Description : The first Japanese tarot production would appear to be the tarot deck and book issued by the publisher Keishobou in 1974. The book cover collages imagery, in the form of woodcuts and engravings, from various European alchemical, magical and emblematic works. The tarot deck itself, a full set of Majors and Minors, was created by Gaichi Muramatsu. It is a hybrid; the Marseilles style deck (providing the inspiration for the Majors and Court cards) and the Rider Waite deck (providing the Minors, with the imagery redrawn in Marseilles woodcut style. It adopts a rather restricted palette of red, green, brown, yellow and black. This was probably to reduce the costs, as the cards were screen printed in only five colours. Gaichi has also chosen to redraw the centre parts of the image so that often parts of the peripheral image are awkwardly cropped. Also called 'Secret Tarot'.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
JoJo Tarot
Artist : Hirohiko Araki
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2002
Publisher : Shueisha Inc
Country : Japan Italy
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 103
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Promo for Yamoto "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" anime DVD. Apparently they were issued two at a time with the various DVDs.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Manga
Promo
Satanic
Artist : Juha Vuorma
Designer :Faustus Scorpius
Text :Faustus Scorpius
Date : 1991
Publisher : Self-Published (Realist publications)
Country : New Zealand
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 104
Width : 71
Shape :
Description : Printed back on deep red card. Some cards are renamed. XIV - Alchemy, XX - The Aeon, XXI - The Galaxy. Some of the imagery departs from the standard interpretation with original ideas.
Art Medium : Pen drawings.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : A
Majors
Corners Square
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Figurative
Magical
Self-Published
Tarot Rikit
Artist : Lynyrd Narciso
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Philippines
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height :
Width :
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Figurative
Self-Published
Lepidopteran People Tarot
Artist : Lynyrd Narciso
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Paraluman
Country : Philippines
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 128
Width : 66
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Acrylics.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
Black Borders
Figurative
Fine Art
Songs for the Journey Home
Artist : Dwariko von Sommaruga
Designer :Catherine Cook
Text :
Date : 1993
Publisher : Alchemists and Artists
Country : New Zealand
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 106
Width : 106
Shape :Circular
Description : Suits are named Wind Songs, Wave Songs, Earth Songs and Flame Songs. It has a strong ecological core to the
imagery, but it rises above coarse political rhetoric and
instead presents us with delightfully positive images.
Art Medium : Coloured pencil without outlining.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : Dwariko Von Sommaruga
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
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Figurative
Stitch Rabbit Tarot
Artist : i-neu
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Dreaming for Change
Country : Korea
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : The stitch rabbit is a soft fabric doll sewn with obvious stitches. The imagery depicts this doll involved in various sewing related activities, working with pins, spinning thread, using a sewing machine and playing with bobbins. It is supplied with a little notebook incorporating descriptions of the cards.
Art Medium : Watercolour and pencil.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Pretty Cure
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Diawon
Country : Korea
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 115
Width : 60
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Manga
Children's
Olympus Guardian II
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher : SBS Production
Country : Korea
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 86
Width : 58
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Tarot Elite
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Country : Korea
No of cards : 22
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Width : 57
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Slumberland
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Publisher : Hemon
Country : Korea
No of cards : 22
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Description : As the subtitle says ''A deck for children and the young at heart''.
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Trick or Treat Tarot
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Date : 2012
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No of cards : 21
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Height : 110
Width : 65
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Description : Supplied in a folder with a rather fine Korean book with full page illustrations.
Art Medium : Watercolour or gouache.
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Katekyo Hitman Reborn Tarot
Artist : Bian
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Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Korea
No of cards : 22
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Description : Katekyo Hitman Reborn! ("Katekyo" being a portmanteau of Katei Kyoshi and translated as Home Tutor), is an ongoing Japanese manga written and illustrated by Akira Amano. The plot revolves around the life of a young boy named Tsunayoshi Sawada, who finds out that he is the next in line to become the boss of the most powerful Mafia organization, the Vongola Family. As such, the Vongola's most powerful hitman, a gun-toting infant named Reborn, is sent to tutor "Tsuna" on how to become a respectable boss. The individual manga chapters are serialized in Japan in the weekly Shonen Jump. It was released as an English language version in the USA under the shortened title of Reborn! Probably a doujinshi.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines in reddish brown, coloured using a computer graphic program with use of gradient fills.
No of Cards :22
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Astrologic Tarot
Artist : Shurei Etoile
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Date : 1989
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Width : 74
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Guardian Tarot
Artist : Carnelian
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 100
Width : 73
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Description : Cards not numbered, but numbered on the enclosed leaflet.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program. Some added collaged elements in the backgrounds.
No of Cards :22
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Galaxy Angel Talot (sic)
Artist : Various
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Date : 2011
Publisher : PurePlus
Country : Japan
No of cards : 24
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Height : 86
Width : 54
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Description : Created by a group of fans of the Galaxy Angel(Gyarakushi Enjeru) bishojo sci-fi/comedy manga and anime, created in 2000 by Broccoli. The story is about a group of women and girls who go on government-sponsored humanitarian missions as the Angel Troupe (Angel-tai) to search for lost technology, generally a plot device to set up amusing and absurd humor typical of the show, rife with obscure Japanese puns.
Supplied with a book containing black and white illlustrations of the cards with information about the characters and the artists.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :24
Extra Cards :Two alternative Lovers cards.
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Miracle Tarot
Artist : Reiko Shimizu
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Date : 1994
Publisher : Hakusensha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 121
Width : 55
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Description : Reiko Shimizu is a Japanese shojo manga writer and illustrator and has written primarily for the publisher Hakusensha. She is noted for her works of science fiction and her stylish artwork. Best known for her 'Kaguyahime', 'Himitsu - Top Secret' and 'Moon Child' mangas.
Art Medium : Fine pen or pencil drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Nova the Detonation
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Date : 2003
Publisher : Game Field Co Ltd
Country : Japan
No of cards : 30
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Height : 102
Width : 67
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Description : Nova the Detonation is a cyberpunk role-playing game. It is set in an alternate near-future Tokyo called 'Tokyo Nova'. This dangerous but exciting dystopian world came about after a pole shift unstabilised the planet and human society in general. A set of tarot cards is used to determine the random moves in the game play. The game has been through a number of issues between 1993 and 2003. It seems that only the later versions of the game provide the user with a set of tarot cards.
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Extra Cards :8 additional game cards
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O-Ra Tarot
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No of cards : 22
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Height : 91
Width : 47
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Art Medium : The artwork uses a series of differently textured backgrounds, some being similar to marbling. Onto these backgrounds, the artist has painted images in thin water based colour using thin brown outlines thus avoiding the usual watercolour pen drawing style.
No of Cards :22
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Moon Princess Himiko (Ai to Shinpi no Tarotto Uranai)
Artist : Kiyoko Tsuchiya
Designer :Moon Princess Himiko
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Date : 1989
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Country : Japan
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Width : 75
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Love Qabbalah Tarot
Artist : Asako Yoshihama
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Sundari
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Description : Love Qabbalah Tarot is a furoku given away in the Japanese alternative health themed magazine Sundari (vol 2 of 2007). The artwork by Asako Yoshihama adopts a style based on fashion sketches.
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K-Books Tarot
Artist : Various.
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Date : 2008
Publisher : K-Books
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 120
Width : 80
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Description : Promotional tarot produced by the Japanese comic book publisher, as a showcase for their artists.
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Ichijo Yukari No Tarot
Artist : Ichijo Yukari
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Date : 2003
Publisher : Entrex Inc.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 99
Width : 59
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Fukoumori Tarot
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Jinco Shogukakan Bandai
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 121
Width : 63
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Description : The unlucky Bat Princess known as Fukoumori is another wacky character from Japanese manga, combining cute imagery within a gothic style. In 2007, a boxed Fukoumori Tarot was published complete with a plastic wallet and book of instructions. In the manga, the heroine, Fukoumori lives in a gothic mansion surrounded by her bats. The hook for the stories is that she is always unlucky, with all sorts of humorous accidents happening to her. It is surprising that the tarot imagery in many child-centred decks remains strong. Clearly, this imagery has penetrated through into children's imaginations; so much so, that an artist commissioned to illustrate a tarot feels obliged to keep to the well-known images.
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Entropy Tarot
Artist : Shigeki Gomi
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Date : 1983
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 300
Height : 119
Width : 75
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Description : Gomi created this strange and obscure Entropy Tarot based upon the idea of entropy in physics, a measure of the degree of chaos and disorder in a physical system. The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of physical processes always increases. Gomi wanted us to focus on reducing the entropy, the degree of chaos in our lives. Perhaps he had read the 1944 book 'What is Life?' by quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger who argued that life and human beings, through organising matter, have a need to reduce entropy. The imagery of his cards is enigmatic, but incorporates Feynman diagrams (the loops and arrowed lines), which were devised to represent the complex interplay of quantum mechanical processes, which are related directly to entropy. The imagery of this deck is arcane and impenetrable, but it incorporates and reflects back to us the physics of the 1980s.
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No of Cards :22
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Mahou Tarot
Artist : Mahou
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Date : 2006
Publisher : Shinsei Publishing Co
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 116
Width : 70
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Description : A tarot primer with a book and instructions on DVD.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program, possibly using pencil or ink line drawings.
No of Cards :22
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Nekomata Tarot
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Date : 2004
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 122
Width : 65
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Pani Poni Dash ! Tarot Card
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Date : 2006
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 119
Width : 49
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Description : Pani Poni Dash!, originally titled Pani Poni, began as a manga series by Japanese mangaka Hekiru Hikawa and first serialized in the Japanese manga magazine G Fantasy, published by Square Enix, in November 2000. It utilizes parody, frequently referencing Japanese and American pop-culture in many ways.
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Megaten World Tarot
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Date : 1994
Publisher : Atlus
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 100
Width : 58
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Description : Tarot based on Megaten Universe series of computer games. This is an abbreviation of Megami Tensei ('Goddess Reincarnation'), a series of complex role-playing games issued on various computer formats from 1987 to the present day. In general they take place in a post-apocalyptic world, and involve battles between demons and evolved spiritual beings. The artwork consists of fine line drawings subtly coloured. Each card bears a winged angel form, such as Uriel, Zaphkiel, Metatron, and so on, which, only in a few cases, reflect tarot imagery.
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Macalon Tarot
Artist : Kato Macalon
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Date : 2008
Publisher : www.Fantome.Biz
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 89
Width : 58
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Description : Simple, straightforward imagery that will engage children.
Art Medium : Outline drawings in pen, coloured using computer graphics program. Much use of gradiant fills and textures.
No of Cards :78
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Devil May Cry
Artist : Various
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Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 86
Width : 54
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Description : Devil May Cry is a series of five high action, fast combat video games with a dark fantasy and gothic setting, first issued on the Playstation in 2001, and later on Xbox and Windows.
The tarot deck would appear to be a doujinshi or fan art collaborative deck. The arcana depict scenes with one of the characters from the deck. As the high-definition remaster of the earlier titles was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, this deck was possibly created by some fans in response to that.

Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
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Harajuku Suzuko Kanno Tarot
Artist : Harajuku Suzuko Kanno
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Date : 2012
Publisher : Frau magazine (Kodansha)
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 84
Width : 50
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Description : Cut out cards printed on thick card inserted in June issue of Frau women's fashion and style magazine. The images forming the collages appear to be sourced entirely from 20th century Western printed material, and there is no discernable Japanese focus to the imagery.
Art Medium : Collage.
No of Cards :22
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Fantastic Medical Tarot
Artist : Shigeki Gomi
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Date : 1982
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 300
Height : 151
Width : 107
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Description : The medical doctor, Shigeki Gomi, became rather engaged with tarot imagery in the early 1980’s and came to create three idiosyncratic decks, which he self-published. Being a physician, Gomi began his work in his Medical Fantasy Tarot by envisaging the human body organ structures as a reflection of the Major arcana. His Fool is the foetus in the womb; his Magician is the human digestive system, which transmutes food into life energy. Temperance is the balance of the circulatory and respiratory system, which absorbs oxygen from the air and breathes out carbon dioxide through the cycle of red and blue forms of haemoglobin. The designs for his tarot are primarily taken from a well-known American anatomy textbook of the time, 'The Atlas of Clinical Anatomy' 1978, which had drawings by Terry Dolan. These have been modified through the use of airbrushing.
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No of Cards :22
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Self-Published
Egiptian Tarot 22
Artist : Yoshio Karashima
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Date : 1987
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 119
Width : 63
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Ciao Tarot
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Date : 2007
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 119
Width : 65
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Description : Ciao is a Japanese shojo manga magazine published by Shogakukan for young girls. This tarot and booklet were a promotional item.
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No of Cards :22
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Blade of Arcana 3
Artist : Junko Taguchi
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Date : 2006
Publisher : Enterbrain Inc.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 27
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Height : 102
Width : 67
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Description : Cards included with the Blade of Arcana 3rd Edition role playing game. The additional 5 cards seem to be used in determining the progress of the game. Blade of Arcana is a fantasy role playing game issued in 1999. Like many RPGs it is set in a medieval world. The player characters have the three stigmata of the 22 Arcaeus (apostles of the light) engraved on their bodies. These each correspond to a Major arcanum of the tarot. The game takes the form of a large book of rules combined with a set of tarot cards and some other cards, which are used in the game. It is now in its third edition, with each version being extended and developed and consequently having a new set of tarot designs.
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No of Cards :27
Extra Cards :5 additional game cards
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Asobu Anjieri No Yasashii Tarot
Artist : Umezawa Saki
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Date : 2004
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 120
Width : 70
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Description : Similar to Hello Kitty but with engaging black-and-white puppy dogs.
Art Medium : Pen drawings with graphics process colour.
No of Cards :78
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Love Spectrum Tarot
Artist : Hitomi Nagao
Designer :Ryuichi Izumi
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Date : 2009
Publisher : EastPress
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 80
Width : 47
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Description : Eastpress, issues a glossy, well produced monthly magazine, a Love and Fortune Calendar book targetted at young women and full of horoscopes, crystals, palmistry and other such divination. The issue for August 2009, contains this rather stylish tarot.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Tsundere Tarot
Artist : Rie Kugiyama
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Date : 2009
Publisher : Dears
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 120
Width : 60
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Description : Tsundere is a term in manga and anime describing a particular character type. It is the combination of two words 'tsuntsun' and 'deredere'. Tsuntsun refers an egoistic, hostile, tough, moody or angry character, who never shows any sign of hesitation or weakness. Deredere is the opposite of tsuntsun, being uncertain and more passive. Tsundere can thus often be applied to a character that changes moods quickly. This tarot comes with a CD with instructions in card reading by Rie Kugimiya. This deck is entirely female characters. There is another deck, Tsundere Tarot-B, consisting of male characters.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Youbika Original Tarot
Artist : Kei Nakagawara
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Kmaga
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 84
Width : 48
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Description : Cut outs in the Japanese health magazine, Yu Bika, July 2007.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Nakayoshi-Mura Tarot - 1000th Meeting Memorial
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Date : 2006
Publisher : Nakayoshi-Mura Club
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 100
Width : 57
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Description : The Nakayoshi-Mura Club (in English, ''Friendly-Village'') is a game-club specializing in traditional games, Tarock, Uno, Chess, etc. This club has a regular meeting every Saturday. In 2006, they held their 1000th Meeting. This Tarock is a souvenir at that meeting.
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Jeu de Tarot
Quobika Original Tarot (Easy tarot for everyone)
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Date : 2007
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 85
Width : 48
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Subaru Tarot Project
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 133
Width : 57
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Description : Tarot produced by a doujinshi group. Cards are in different styles.
Art Medium : Created using computer graphics software.
No of Cards :22
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Secret World Tarot
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Date : 1990
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 23
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Height : 127
Width : 75
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Description : Includes an instructional videotape. Card order is jumbled, whether intentionally or by error. One additional card entitled 'Crystal Card'.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour with use of airbrushing.
No of Cards :23
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Shigeo Otake Tarot
Artist : Shigeo Otake
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Text :Shuji Terayama
Date : 2005
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Country : Japan
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Description : The wonderfully surreal tarot of Shigeo Otake, on the theme of hallucinogenic mushrooms, has been published in book form, though not as actual cards. Otake has produced a number of illustrated books and seems especially inspired by Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'. His style incorporates soft, organic, forms, which flow and metamorphose. He has obviously closely studied artists such as Brueghel and the early surrealists, such as Tanguy and Delvaux. Each of his tarot cards are based on a particular species of mushroom, and it seems that in some cases he takes its actual natural form as the starting point for his imagery.
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Soulcalibur
Artist : Various
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Date : 2005
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Description : Soulcalibur is a fighting game developed and produced by Namco. It was originally released in the arcades on the Namco System 12 hardware. It was later released on Xbox Live Arcade in 2008. This tarot would appear to be a doujinshi. The booklet which comes with the deck has large colour reproductions of the card images.
Art Medium : Created in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Orgasm Tarot
Artist : Koh Soramoto
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Date : 2005
Publisher : Pinkysoft / Koh Soramoto
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 129
Width : 91
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Description : The artist is totally obsessed with large breasts. Every figure in the tarot is depicted with such large breasts as to be ridiculous. It is obviously a parody probably referencing images from well known mangas. It was self-published as a doujinshi in 2005. The cards also bear names with mythological significance. High Priestess - Unicorn; Empress - Ishtar; Emperor - Griffon; Hierophant - Sphinx, etc.
Art Medium : Appears to be pencil drawings that have been imported into a graphics program and then coloured with rendered textures.
No of Cards :22
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Nature Tarot
Artist : Shower
Designer :Alexandria Mokuseioh
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Date : 1980
Publisher : Seitosha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 79
Width : 79
Shape :Round
Description : The Nature Tarot, was illustrated by the Shower Design Studio under the direction of Alexandria Mokuseioh. The cards are circular, and rather Western in style. These may be the first published circular tarots. The round tarots Motherpeace 1981, Book of Aradia 1984, and the Daughters of the Moon 1986 which, shortly after this, emanated from the USA all seem to derive from a group of feminist inspired artists. There is unlikely to be any direct connection or inspiration from the Nature Tarot.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolours.
No of Cards :22
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Moon Princess
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Width : 60
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Description : This would appear to be a press out deck issued with a magazine. This would appear to be copied from the Moon Princess Tarot with artwork by Sadako Tei in 1989.
Art Medium : Outline pen drawings, coloured with graphics process tones.
No of Cards :22
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Tarot of Stones
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 109
Width : 72
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Description : Each of the 22 Majors is associated with a precious or semi-precious gemstone which is depicted on the card imagery. Thus the Lover is rose quartz, Strength is cat's eye, the Hanged Man is malachite, and so on. As with the Dragon's Tarot, these have been printed onto soft matt thick card on a high quality inkjet or giclee printer, which has somewhat softened any hard edges in the drawings, to give a diffuse effect.
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Usatarot
Artist : Rinousagi (pseudonym)
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Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 94
Width : 60
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Description : Usa is actually Japanese for Rabbit (Usagi). This is a rabbit tarot self-published in Japan, nicely printed but laminated in little pouches. It is a delightful deck, not departing far from the conventional images, but with rabbits. There are a few rabbit tarots and this is a fine addition to this stable.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines coloured using a computer graphic program with use of gradient fills.
No of Cards :22
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Way of the Fool
Artist : Beatriz Inglessis
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Date : 2011
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 50
Height : 89
Width : 64
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Description : The original large woodblock prints were on exhibition in Tokyo University of the Arts Museum. Tokyo 2010., Museum Galerie Schloss Landeck. Austria 2010, Hillside Terrace Forum. Tokyo 2011, Galería Fernando Zubillaga. Caracas 2011, Centro de Arte Mutuo. Barcelona 2012. Thesew printed as a set of cards in


Art Medium : Japanese style woodblock prints.
No of Cards :22
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Witch Aromatherapy Tarot
Artist : Nobokokuasa Kyoko
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Date : 2009
Publisher : Infas Books
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 70
Width : 54
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Description : Push out cards in the back of a book devoted to aromatherapy.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Unmei Tarot
Artist : Moris Chacoshy
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Date : 1998
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Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 129
Width : 79
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Description : Cards renamed but preserving the tarot imagery. Many visual references to well known Western paintings.
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No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :Card titled 'Message'.
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Mirai o Tsugeru Tarot (Zipusi)
Artist : Takeshi Nanjo
Designer :Tatewaki
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Date : 1989
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 58
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Height : 108
Width : 68
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Description : Minors only. Four suits of 14 cards plus two extra card. This is a coloured version of the Gipsy tarot of 1979.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :58
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Love Tarot 2
Artist : Addams Anna Majoeria
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Date : 2008
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 124
Width : 75
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Description : The book includes Addams Anna Majoeria's pen and wash sketches for the cards.
Art Medium : Coloured pencil.
No of Cards :22
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Legend of Goldsaint
Artist : Masami Kurumada, Megumu Okada
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Date : 2005
Publisher : Red Comics
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 121
Width : 63
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Description : Cards supplied with graphic novel Saint Seiya Episode G.
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Omamori I Gold
Artist : various
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Date : 2002
Publisher : Japanese manga furoku
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 139
Width : 67
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Description : Omamori Himari is Japanese comedy manga series by Japanese author Matra Milan. Two extra 'Omamori' cards.
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No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :Two extra 'Omamori' cards.
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Morinaga Hi-Crown Original Tarot I
Artist : Riyoko Ikeda
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Date : 1995 (?)
Publisher : Morinaga Hi-Crown Chocolate company
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 116
Width : 76
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Description : In the 1990s the Morinaga Hi-Crown Chocolate company included a gift token with its chocolate products. If a customer sent back sufficient tokens, they would receive a tarot deck in a stitched faux leather pouch with a velcro closer. The company commissioned two decks, apparently, one for their plain and one for their milk chocolate. Riyoko Ikeda created one of them setting his images in ornate classical picture frames.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Mayura Hieda Tarot
Artist : Mayura Hieda
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Date : 2009
Publisher : Yuraku
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 51
Width : 25
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Description : Small cut out cards printed on thick card at the front of the book.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings coloured with process halftone colours.
No of Cards :22
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Tarot de Marseilles
Malkuth Tarot Deck
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Sting
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 120
Width : 60
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Description : The Malkuth Tarot Deck, 2007, was issued as a promo with the Playstation 2 game 'Baroque'. It is a dungeon combat game in which the player has to find their way through the maze of tunnels by shooting up all the monsters they encounter. The artwork for the deck, which does not appear to have been derived from the game itself, is a wonderfully creative exploration of the conventional tarot imagery. The artist, sadly unrecognised in the documentation, consistently finds new ways of approaching the tarot. The Wheel of Fortune, for example, is a remarkable image.
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No of Cards :22
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La Fillette Revolutionnaire
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1998
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 110
Width : 69
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Description : Revolutionary Girl Utena is a manga by Chiho Saito and anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The manga serial began in the June 1996 issue of Ciao and the anime was first broadcast in 1997. This appears to be an unauthorised doujinshi tarot.
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No of Cards :22
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Kikilala - Koi no Tarot Uranai (Little Twin Stars)
Artist : Ryuji Kagami
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Sanrio Co., Ltd.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 88
Width : 62
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No of Cards :22
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Holy Card Tarot
Artist : Rico Miyagi
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Date : 2012
Publisher : Shueisha Publishing Co. Margaret Magazine
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 110
Width : 67
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Description : Mei-chan no Shitsuji ("Mei-chan's Butler") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riko Miyagi. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's Margaret magazine. The manga has been adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama, which was broadcast on Fuji TV in 2009. This tarot based on the serialisation was a gift issued with Margaret Magazine.
Art Medium : Probably digital.
No of Cards :22
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Daily Tarot
Artist :
Designer :Takeda Chamereon
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Chukei
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 88
Width : 57
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Description : Supplied with small book of explanations.
Art Medium : Digitally created, with some photocollaged patterns on backgrounds.
No of Cards :22
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Basara Gold Tarot
Artist : Yumi Tamura
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Date : 2000
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 139
Width : 63
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Description : Majors-only tarot featuring characters from the Japanese Legend of Basara manga and anime (1998. The card images are etched on gold foil, which is mounted on a cardstock back.
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No of Cards :22
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Amazing Tarot
Artist :
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Date :
Publisher : Manga gift
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 94
Width : 54
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No of Cards :22
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22 Card Report Tarot (22 Mai no Yokokuzu)
Artist : Asano Hachiro
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Date : 1996
Publisher : Seishun Publishing
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 94
Width : 50
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Description : Cut out cards at rear of book. French titles. Based on Oswald Wirth deck.
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No of Cards :22
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Alice in Tarot Card
Artist : Kashima
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Date : 2009
Publisher : Echo
Country : Japan
No of cards : 11
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Height : 179
Width : 134
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Description : Alice in Tarot Card is a 16 page stapled book containing 11 tarot card designs based on characters from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'.
The designs were created digitally by Kashima, a freelance Japanese artist/illustrator. A number of similar artbooks illustrated by her have been published in Japan 'Sheer Magic', 'Eros & Thanatos', 'Delta of Venus', among others.
Art Medium : Digital
No of Cards :11
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A Lot of Tarot
Artist : Rita Jay
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Date : 2006
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 148
Width : 100
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Description : Pull out postcard book.
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No of Cards :22
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Anatolia Story
Artist : Chie Shinohara, Chikako Hara
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Date : 1997
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 99
Width : 42
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Description : Chie Shinohara is an award winning Japanese manga artist best-known for Red River, known in Japan as 'Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori' (Anatolia Story). This is a furoku given away with some unidentified Magazine.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Amulet tarot (Shugo-Chara)
Artist :
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Nakayosi
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 52
Width : 30
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Description : The Amulet Tarot (Shugo-Chara) a furoku given away with Nakayosi Magazine #8, 2008, is typical of the sort of tarot that are being made available to younger children. Though it adheres to the conventional tarot structure and even retains the titles in English, it is really just a vehicle for distributing cute images that attract children.
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No of Cards :22
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Animedia Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 1988
Publisher : Animedia
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 85
Width : 60
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Description : This seems to have been issued as a gift tarot in a Japanese magazine some 20 or more years ago. The 22 card deck seems to be based on a game and the company may have been an earlier incarnation of the present day large multimedia publishing group e-animedia. The artwork for this earlier tarot is by a number of artists known in the computer game and manga arena, Takayuki Goto, Toyoo Ashida, Mutsumi Inomata and Hatsuki Tsuji. Some of the artwork is quite conventional tarot imagery but rather cute and engaging.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines, mostly coloured with coloured pencils, with a few in watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Camera de Tarot
Artist :
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Date : 2004
Publisher : Namco Ltd.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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No of Cards :22
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Certain Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2011
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 256
Width : 182
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Description : Book of illustrations by various artists.
Art Medium : Some are pen drawings, others were created digitally.
No of Cards :22
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Fortune Telling of the Holy Mother Mary
Artist : Jun Shima, Rie Nishino
Designer :Shurei Etoile
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Date : 1992
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 26
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Height : 125
Width : 76
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Description : The artwork is influenced by early Italian religious painting. Twelve cards are the tarot arcana, Fool, Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Hierophant, Chariot, Strength, Hanged Man, Devil, Moon, Judgement, World. Twelve cards are related to the planets, and there are two cards for the Head and tail of the Dragon (the Moon's nodes).Supplied in box with a book.
Art Medium : Fine pen drawings coloured with water colour.
No of Cards :26
Extra Cards :Extra cards for the Head and Tail of the Dragon
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Gundamwing Tarot
Artist : Ugeppa
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Date :
Publisher : Movic
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 110
Width : 60
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Description : The Gundam Wing anime was first shown on the main television network in Japan during 1995 and 96. It inspired Ugeppa to produce a beautifully designed tarot. The deck we are presented with is almost quite traditional in format but the cards all focus on characters from the series. As a token gesture, the artist has allowed 'gundams', the mobile mechanised fighting suits in the anime, to be intrude into the backgrounds of a few of the cards.
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No of Cards :22
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Indian Tarot
Artist :
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Date : 2002
Publisher : Junon
Country : Japan
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Description : Magazine style book devoted to this Indian tarot. Includes the cards as pushouts.
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Gipsy Cards
Artist : Takeshi Nanjo
Designer :
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Date : 1979
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 58
Limited Edition :
Height : 90
Width : 56
Shape :
Description : This was published as a coloured version Mirai o Tsugeru Tarot (Zipusi), in 1989. Non standard with four suits of 14 cards plus two extra cards.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :58
Extra Cards :Four suits of 14 cards plus two extra cards.
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Alchemist Atelier Marie Tarot
Artist : Ouse Kohime
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Date : 2000
Publisher : Imagineer
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 118
Width : 74
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Description : Marie no Atelier is a very popular role playing game for the Sony Playstation released by the Japanese company Gust in 1998. The box for the edition released in 2000 included a set of tarot cards, created by Ouse Kohime. Marie runs an alchemist’s shop and this leads her into the various adventures that constitute the game. The action is set in medieval Germany. Only six of the figures on the cards are male, with even the Hierophant being shown as a woman.

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Angel Marseilles Tarot
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Publisher : Sekaibunka-Sha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 113
Width : 63
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Description : Overall use of beige and brown tones to colour these classic images of the Tarot of Marseilles.
Art Medium : Pen fine line drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Develop your future
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Date : 1995
Publisher : Le Project
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 127
Width : 71
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Description : Issued with book and CD-Rom.
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No of Cards :22
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Missing Tarot
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Date : 2002
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 114
Width : 64
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Description : This is a free gift given away with a horror novel series based on a radio programme. After the broadcast the story was turned into a series of novels.
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No of Cards :22
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Original Tarot
Artist : Kashima
Designer :
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Date : 2002
Publisher : East Press
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 137
Width : 63
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Description : Promotional gift with East Press Tarot magazine, 2002. Kashima is a well known artist and illustrator, who has had many exhibitions in Tokyo and illustrated many books.
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No of Cards :22
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Tsundere Tarot-B
Artist : Jun Fukuyama
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Date : 2009
Publisher : Dears
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 120
Width : 60
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Description : Tsundere is a term in manga and anime describing a particular character type. It is the combination of two words 'tsuntsun' and 'deredere'. Tsuntsun refers an egoistic, hostile, tough, moody or angry character, who never shows any sign of hesitation or weakness. Deredere is the opposite of tsuntsun, being uncertain and more passive. Tsundere can thus often be applied to a character that changes moods quickly. This tarot comes with a CD with instructions in card reading by Rie Kugimiya. This deck is entirely female characters. There is another deck, Tsundere Tarot, consisting of female characters.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Twelve constellations Tarot (Juni Seiza Tarot Uranai)
Artist : Shurei Etoile
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Date : 1988
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 142
Width : 79
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Description : Sharply drawn and subtly coloured drawings. The imagery holds close to conventional tarot, but is creatively explored. Twelve of the cards are expressly associated with the zodiacal constellations. Again, this Japanese tarot entirely conforms to the European style. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured. Graduated tones suggest use of an airbrush.
No of Cards :22
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Ninja Boy
Artist : Motoe Takashi or Mayu
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 133
Width : 58
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Description : Amusing parody of Ninja. On the Tower, for example, it is a pile of toilet rolls that are collapsing.
Art Medium : Proably pen drawings coloured in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Stella Marina Tarot
Artist : Stella Marina
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Date : 2012
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 89
Width : 59
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Description : Issued with an extensive book, boxed in a protective sleeve.
Art Medium : Oil paintings.
No of Cards :22
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Tarot Enie
Artist : Maya Takamura
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Date : 2011
Publisher : Kotobukiya Co., Ltd.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 141
Width : 72
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Description : Maya Takamura is a well known illustrator in Japan. Her drawing and her sense for harmonising colour tones is impeccable. Although it appears to be created entirely digitally, the artwork is made to appear as paintings in oils. The 22 cards are printed quite large and on quality thick card. The print surface is varnished with a soft matt varnish. It comes in a strong large shelf box, with an internal compartment for the cards.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
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Unlight Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :Chyoko
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Date : 2012
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 25
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Height : 120
Width : 70
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Description : Collaborative deck by six artists. Unlight is an online Role Playing Game which uses cards.
The deck is fan art produced by a group of doujinshi. These are not game playing cards but images and characters from the game placed in a tarot context. The deck comes with some extra cards with alternative versions. Also errors were made in the numbering and titling of a couple of cards and they had to reprint the erronious items. Each of the Majors reflects one of the main characters in the game. This comes with a large format book also containing the artwork on the cards.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :25
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Kabbalah Tarot (Seitou Kabara Tarotto Senjutsu Aizouban Zenkan)
Artist : Keiichi Saito
Designer :Kazumi Akutzu (book designer)
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Date : 1992
Publisher : Gakken
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 112
Width : 72
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Rider-Waite clone
Ezipusyan Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 105
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Egipcios Kier style.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Fool 22
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Egyptian
Angelic Vale Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Chrome 6
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 86
Width : 57
Shape :
Description : Tarot cards featuring characters from the Angelic Vale computer game. Majors only. The different styles suggest it was created by a number of different artists.
Angelic Vale is a Fantasy turn-based strategy game, developed and published by Chrome 6, which was released in Japan in 2003.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
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Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Collaborative
Game
Buddhistic Fantasy Tarot
Artist : Shigeki Gomi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1982
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 300
Height : 152
Width : 106
Shape :
Description : Gomi's second deck 'The Buddhistic Fantasy Tarot' is a set of 22 large thick cards in a limited edition of 300 copies. These were unwieldy to shuffle for divination purposes and thus, we can assume, he primarily wished them to be viewed as artworks. This is an early example of a themed tarot deck, where the artist applies the existing tarot imagery to another iconographic system. Here he uses Buddhist statuary and other imagery as the basis for his imagery. He seems to draw on the major school of Japanese Buddhism, called Shingon, which is esoteric and iconographic. This has a complex set of thirteen Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. They are represented in his card designs from the Fool as Shakyamuni or Gautama Buddha, through the Chariot as the Manjusri Bodhisattva (Monju) to the Maitreya Bodhisattva (Miroku) as the Judgement. He created this cards using drawings, which have been coloured, again using an airbrush, the artistic effect of which Gomi obviously admired.
Art Medium : Paintings in gouache with perhaps some airbrushing.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :300
Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
Magical Drop
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher : Data East Corporation
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 126
Width : 71
Shape :
Description : Data East Corporation produced a number of Tetris style computer games. One of these incorporated tarot imagery and the deck seems to have been produced as a promotional item to go with the game.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Figurative
Promo
Computer Game
Yu-Gi-Oh
Artist : Kazuki Takahashi
Designer :Mayumi Matsukura
Text :
Date :
Publisher : Shueisha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 86
Width : 57
Shape :
Description : Yu-Gi-Oh (''King of Games'') is a late 1990s Japanese manga which has spawned a number of anime and many trading card games. There are at least three Yu-Gi-Oh tarots. One is a doujinshi from 2001, another is a Taiwanese anime tarot. This one is the official version issued by its publisher Shueisha.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program. With background of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Pocketable Tarot Series No 102
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher : SYU Creation - Wakui
Country : Japan
No of cards : 8778
Limited Edition :
Height : 62
Width : 41
Shape :
Description : Issued in a plastic wallet by a company that specialises in games in a convenient form for travelling. This is a Rider-Waite style deck without any names or titles on the cards. The packaging includes an illustrated booklet.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :8778
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Children's
Rider-Waite clone
Sentimental Journey Tarot
Artist : Kumi Horii
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1999
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : This appears to be based on a short running anime of the same title which was broadcast on Japanese television in 1998. It was a collection of twelve short stories about twelve different girls.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings coloured in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
Other Borders
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Figurative
Manga
Children's
Shinsei Tarot (My Future Tarot)
Artist : Tougen Kim and Tazuko Kim
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1985
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 102
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : Shinsei Tarot (My Future Tarot) was created by Tougen and Tazuko Kim and is one of the first Japanese tarots directed towards a younger audience.
Art Medium : The designs are created in watercolours with possibly some use of airbrushing to create smooth gradations and modelling.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Original Fake Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 6
Limited Edition :
Height : 140
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Original Fake opened its first boutique in the Aoyama district of Tokyo, but is now franchised in many countries. It sells expensive clothing and fashion accessories. As part of an invitation to the opening of their Autumn and Winter collection in 2007, they included a partial set of six tarot cards. These were printed in rather acidic colours and presented in a black envelope. They take the form of adhesive backed stickers, presumably in the hope that people might use them to decorate items and further promote their brand name.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :6
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Figurative
Promo
Moi-même-Moitié
Artist : Mana
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 80
Limited Edition :
Height : 131
Width : 66
Shape :
Description : Moi-même-Moitié is a well-known Japanese goth fashion label founded in 1999 and features the specific clothing styles which the founder Mana calls Elegant Gothic Lolita and Elegant Gothic Aristocrat. Mana was also the leader of the Visual Kei band Malice Mizer and is currently the leader of another band, Moi Dix Mois. The company issued a tarot deck for the opening of one of their fashion shows. The images are photographs of what appears to be a young woman modelling their range of clothes. This model is in fact Mana himself, displaying his 'other half'.
Art Medium : Posed photographs.
No of Cards :80
Extra Cards :Two extra images.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : A
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Figurative
Promo
Gothic/horror
Photography
Tarot of Wonderland
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 95
Width : 50
Shape :
Description : This imagery of this unattributed furoku contains a series of stylised animal forms mostly birds, but there is also a fox, a lion and horses. Like the O-Ra tarot, these have been drawn onto a textured background sometimes mimicking blonde marble.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
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Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Furoku or gift
Windmill Tarot
Artist : N. Kuroda
Designer :Alexandria Mokuseioh
Text :
Date : 1992
Publisher : Nihon Karuta
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 111
Width : 61
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
Mineo Maya Tarot
Artist : Midori Yamada
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1980
Publisher : Hakusensha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 105
Width : 54
Shape :
Description : The Mineo Maya Tarot was created by the artist of that name. This deck and accompanying book were instigated by Midori Yamada, whose own book published in 1961 was issued with the first printing of a tarot deck in Japan. There she printed a version of the Rider-Waite deck but twenty years later, she inspired Mineo Maya to create an original tarot. For his tarot images, he created fine line drawings with detailed texturing effects. These are printed against black backgrounds with areas of gold. Mineo Maya later became famous as the creator of the long running manga series Pataliro.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Marseilles order
Figurative
Macrocosm Power Tarot
Artist : Kei Nakagawara
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Kmaga
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 87
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Cut outs in the Japanese health magazine, Yu Bika, April 2010.
Art Medium : Oil paintings.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Magazine
Furoku or gift
Kobe Tarot
Artist : Ayumi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1991
Publisher : AD-Graphics
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 129
Width : 79
Shape :
Description : Essentially a photographic tour of Kobe, with two women, one in an ill fitting Western formal business suit and the other in a more classically feminine style, appearing in front of various landmarks. Produced about four years before the Great Hanshin earthquake destroyed some districts of the city.
Art Medium : Simple photo collage with two human figures superimposed on images of city buildings and other landmarks.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
Photography
Masahiro Obara Tarot
Artist : Masahiro Obara
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 95
Shape :
Description : They look like woodblock prints, but I suspect they have been created using pen and ink. It would be extremely difficult create the fine white lines on some of the card images using woodblock printing. Apparently this deck was only available through one outlet.
Art Medium : Probably ink applied using pen and brushes. Made to look like antique woodblock prints.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Black & White
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Figurative
Fine Art
Self-Published
Koi Tarot
Artist : Maggie
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1992
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 24
Limited Edition :
Height : 93
Width : 51
Shape :
Description : Press out cards at the back of an instruction book. Two extra cards Zeus and Aphrodite.
Art Medium : Pencil or pen drawings coloured with watercolour, with some use of airbrush.
No of Cards :24
Extra Cards :Two extra cards Zeus and Aphrodite.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Kabbalah Tarot of Love
Artist : Noma Araki
Designer :
Text :Miss Persephone
Date : 1996
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 149
Width : 85
Shape :
Description : Conventional European tarot images well painted with a rather pleasant textured effect. The use of a thin layer of paint results in low contrast and muted subtle colours. The cards are a bit larger than the standard format. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Thin oil or acrylic painting on canvas or fabric textured board. The texture of the linen or canvas shows through the thin glaze of paint. The use of a thin layer of paint results in low contrast and muted subtle colours.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
Blade of Arcana 1
Artist : Junko Taguchi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1999
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 28
Limited Edition :
Height : 102
Width : 67
Shape :
Description : Blade of Arcana is a fantasy role playing game issued in 1999. Like many RPGs it is set in a medieval world. The player characters have the three stigmata of the 22 Arcaeus (apostles of the light) engraved on their bodies. These each correspond to a Major arcanum of the tarot. The game takes the form of a large book of rules combined with a set of tarot cards and some other cards, which are used in the game. It is now in its third edition, with each version being extended and developed and consequently having a new set of tarot designs.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :28
Extra Cards :6 extra cards.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Game
Ah! My Goddess Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher : Movic
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height :
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Shape :
Description : Major arcana cards featuring characters from the Ah! My Goddess anime series. Cards were part of a larger set of over 100 trading cards, and were not packaged together as a complete set.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Angel Tarot
Artist : Michel Angel
Designer :Maria Miduki
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 91
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : Self published small limited edition, hand produced in lamination pockets.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Square
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
BOTA MM DX
Artist : Masanori Miyamoto
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1999
Publisher : Media Pack
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : less than 50
Height : 118
Width : 68
Shape :
Description : Beautiful set of BOTA (Builders of the Adytum - Paul Foster Case) major arcana tarot cards, painstakingly overlaid by hand with coloured metallic foils.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :less than 50
Price indication : A
Majors
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Figurative
Fine Art
Enishi Gen Tarot
Artist : Enishi Gen
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1990
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 126
Width : 74
Shape :
Description : Beautiful soft toned tarot designs. The faces of the figures are sharply depicted but the rest of the image dissolves into softer forms. As in her other deck the 'Starlot' she renames the Fool to 'The Challenger', but the rest of the cards have the conventional names. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Paintings using diffuse areas of blended colour, probably using an airbrush.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Hindu Tarot
Artist : Kali
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1986
Publisher : Sanei Co., Reed Co.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 51
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 74
Shape :
Description : Card edges are gilt. The 51 cards are associated with the 22 major arcana through a system explained in the accompanying book. A table in the book shows that the first five cards relate to arcana 1 to 5 (Magician to Pope), the next ten cards relate two at a time to the next five arcana, while the remaining 36 relate three at a time to the remaining 12 arcana. The title page bears the mantra ''Hari Vishnu, Hari Krishna'' so it may have emanated from some Japanese followers of the ISKCON movement which was still very popular and visible on the streets of most cities in the 1980s.
Art Medium : It is a collage deck, made with scissors, paste and cut out images from books and photographs. A few images with applied paint.
No of Cards :51
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : A
Majors
Nonstandard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Other order
Figurative
Mythological
How To tarot
Artist : Sakaki
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1980
Publisher : Dynamic Sellers Publishing Co. Ltd
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 111
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Soft images using a restricted pallette.
Art Medium : Watercolour drawings with brush drawn rather than pen drawn outlines, giving the image a softness.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with pips
Figurative
Hetalia Tarot 22
Artist : Koze
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher : Kozeni
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 101
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : A self published tarot produced by a Japanese artist named Koze. The designs are conventional but nicely drawn and coloured using a graphics program. This is derived from a manga called Axis Powers Hetalia, apparently based on the two 20th century world wars. As there is no official tarot issued with this manga, we can assume that this deck is a self published doujinshi (or fan art) deck. This makes it rather rare. The deck comes in a solid card box and includes a little booklet. In this booklet are shown the original pen drawings on which the tarot card images are based.
Art Medium : Drawn and coloured using a graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Doujinshi
Ghost Sweeper Reiko Mikami Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 116
Width : 73
Shape :
Description : Ghost Sweeper Mikami is a comedic horror manga series by Takashi Shiina, published by the weekly manga magazine Shonen Sunday from 1991 to 1999. It was adapted as an anime TV series in 1994. The tarot was produced some time later during the revival of the anime when it was released on the DVD format. It was aimed at older children, especially girls; the main character Mikami is a female fighter who eliminates ghosts.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Escaflowne Tarot
Artist : Kimitoshi Yamane
Designer :Shouji Kawamori
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher : Bandai
Country : Japan
No of cards : 26
Limited Edition :
Height : 89
Width : 53
Shape :
Description : Escaflowne Tarot, 1997, was included with the Playstation game 'Vision of Escaflowne', based on the manga and anime series. In the anime, the heroine Hitomi attempts to use her tarot cards to control fate. The deck was designed by Shouji Kawamori (Sunrise) and painted by the artist Kimitoshi Yamane. Titles are, surprisingly, in Italian and the cards are unnumbered.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :26
Extra Cards :Extra three elemental cards (Fire, Air, Earth) and one additional card entitled 'La Ambizione'.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Figurative
Computer Game
Dr Rin Akuma-Kun Tarot
Artist : M.A.T.
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1989
Publisher : Bandai
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 88
Width : 58
Shape :
Description : The Dr Rin Akuma-Kun Tarot was perhaps the first tarot to be produced in Japan for young children. It was issued in a brightly coloured box, with an instruction book, a fold out tarot reader’s board and a plastic device with a spring mechanism that fired cards onto the board. The imagery incorporates cute figures and monsters, but keeps close to the tarot symbolism. The Dr. Rin of the title was a fortune-teller in a well known manga series.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Crystal Tarot
Artist : Alexandria Mokuseioh
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1991
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 117
Width : 73
Shape :
Description : Each card is associated with a healing crystal, which is incorporated into the soft subtly coloured and modelled imagery. Entirely European in conception. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case. A small format CD is also provided.
Art Medium : Acrylic paintings with pen drawn outlines and soft modelling and shading, possibly through use of airbrushing.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Blue Birds' Tarot
Artist : Kawaguchi Tadahiko
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Hesomoge Production
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Appears to be applied process colour on strong black line art, with no modelling. It uses a restricted set of colours. Blue birds do appear on many of the cards. The designs were created with the advice the professional fortune-teller Maki Mikami. The original paintings were the subject of a one man show in November 2012.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with process colour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Marseilles order
Manga
Better Luck Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 50
Width : 95
Shape :Landscape
Description : The Japanese style Better Luck Tarot was a free gift issued with a magazine. It is unusual as it adopts the landscape format. The imagery refers to traditional images from Japanese art, but drawn with a modern line and soft colouring. The artist uses a canvas texture for the backgrounds, which is likely to have been created digitally.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Furoku or gift
Astorology Tarot
Artist : Yoshio Karashima
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1996
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 103
Width : 53
Shape :
Description : Version of the New Egiptian Tarot Cards of 1974, but printed in negative.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Black & White
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Ancient Egyptian Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Japan Manga
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 92
Width : 52
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Egyptian
Angelique Tarot
Artist : Yura Kairi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2000
Publisher : Koei Co. Ltd.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 121
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Tarot cards featuring characters from the Japanese neo-romance game. Supplied in a hinged tin box. There are some other Angelique tarots. This one is an official version.
Titles are in French. Tall elongated figures.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Apocripha Zero
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2001
Publisher : Movic
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 89
Width : 62
Shape :
Description : Tarot based on characters from the Apocripha Zero computer game. These appear to be trading cards.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphic program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Square
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Computer Game
Dawn of the Arcana Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Shogakukan
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 83
Width : 38
Shape :
Description : Free gift press-out tarot in the Japanese magazine 'Cheese!'. Titles in French.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Magazine
Furoku or gift
Dragon's Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 106
Width : 71
Shape :
Description : Produced by the same artist who created the Stone's Tarot. This is a hand produced deck said to have been made by a Japanese group in 1996, though the cards were obviously printed around 2008, on which I have no information at all, as there is no documentation apart from a short note. The cards have been printed onto soft matt possibly unsurfaced thick card on a high quality inkjet or giclee printer. Throughout the set of 22 Major arcana, a winged dragon appears, to reflect the tarot archetypes. The artwork is diffuse and unfocussed, and the colours softly merge one into another.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Fate Tarot Card
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 115
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Doujinshi deck by various Japanese artists.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
Collaborative
Doujinshi
IB Tarot
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Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 23
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Height : 150
Width : 61
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Description : IB(pronounced "Eeb" or "Eve" ) is a freeware horror adventure game by Kouri made in RPG Maker 2000 and available on Windows.
A young girl named IB visits an art gallery with her parents. While observing the many exhibits, she suddenly realizes she is alone. And in her search for others, she finds things awry in the gallery...
The game is focused on exploration and puzzle-solving.
There are no battles, and it does not demand quick reflexes.

Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :23
Extra Cards :Extra Miracle card.
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Game
Egyptian Tarot
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Date : 1985
Publisher : Editions Ra
Country : Unidentified
No of cards : 22
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Height : 103
Width : 74
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Description :
Art Medium : Collaged photographs, probably using drawings or photographs of Egyptian temple wall paintings, and some sculpture. Paint may have been applied to some of these.
No of Cards :22
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Egyptian
Kojiki Tarot
Artist : Seiko Kisaki
Designer :
Text :Seiko Kisaki
Date :
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 122
Width : 85
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Description : Kojiki is an ancient Japanese mythological text with poems and songs telling of the creation of the Universe and stories of the Gods and Goddesses that shaped it. This dates from the early 8th century and was composed by Ono Yasumaro by Imperial request. The Kojiki records the mythological origin of the four home islands of Japan, and the Kami or Shinto spirits. The myths contained in the Kojiki are part of the inspiration behind Shinto practices and myths. This tarot comes with a little booklet with some description of how each card corresponds to some god or goddess.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Mythological
Self-Published
Lets Tarot
Artist : Midori Fujimori
Designer :
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Nintendo
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 70
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Description : Game of tarot for Nintendo DS player.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Abstract
Manga
Children's
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Love Story of the Rose Tarot
Artist : Sakaki
Designer :
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Date : 1993
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 94
Width : 59
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Description : Book with cut-out cards at end.
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No of Cards :22
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Book Illustration
Magical Future Tarot
Artist : Kagami Ryuji
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Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 108
Width : 62
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No of Cards :22
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Mayu Ueda Tarot (Tarotsuto Ka-do Butsuku Nijiyuunimai De Uranaeru)
Artist : Mayu Ueda
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Date : 2000
Publisher : Shufu No Tomo Sha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 117
Width : 67
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Description : Book with cut out tarot cards.
Art Medium : Probably gouache.
No of Cards :22
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Children's
Moon Princess Tarot
Artist : Sadako Tei
Designer :Moon Princess Himiko, Kiyoko Tsuchiya
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Date : 1989
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 117
Width : 74
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Description : This is the first tarot produced by Moon Princess Himiko.
Art Medium : Fine lined pen drawings, coloured with process colour. Some areas printed in gold ink.
No of Cards :22
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Fine Art
Mysterious Tarot Fortune Telling
Artist : Nobuto Aoki
Designer :
Text :Chie Erina
Date : 1989 ]
Publisher : Nihon Bungeisha, Tokyo
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 123
Width : 70
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Description : Art nouveau style tarot. The figures have a stronger outline than the background detail. Each card also bears a distinctive flower. The drawing and painting are extremely fine.
Art Medium : Pen drawings with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Newwave Tarot
Artist : M. Muro
Designer :Alexandria Mokuseioh
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Date : 1980
Publisher : Newwave
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 101
Width : 62
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Description : The Newwave Tarot was created by the illustrator M. Muro, again under the direction of Alexandria Mokuseioh. Muro adopts an art deco style. The figures seem cool, self absorbed and a little remote.
Art Medium : The artwork uses smooth transitions and shadings, probably through the use of the airbrush.
No of Cards :22
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Persona 3
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Date : 2006
Publisher : Altus Co., Ltd.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 70
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Description : Persona 3, 2006, is a set of Major arcana cards accompanying the initial copies of the PC game Persona 3. It was not made available separately from the game. The artwork mimics silhouettes and shadow puppet forms, as if cut out in black card and illuminated from behind by various mute toned chequered backgrounds.
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No of Cards :22
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Computer Game
Jung Tarot
Artist : Maggy Hyde
Designer :Ryuji Kagami
Text :Ryuji Kagami
Date : 2012
Publisher : Setsuwasha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 112
Width : 72
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Description : This consists of cards illustrating some of the more familiar aspects of Jungian psychology. There are nine pairs of cards, each pair having a dark and light aspect, corresponding to the classical Jungian archetypes perhaps seen through a Joseph Campbell lens, the Persona, Hero, Shadow, Anima, Animus, Mother, Father, Puer, and Senex. The four remaining singleton cards are the Self, Transition, Synchronicity and the Four Functions. The imagery does not align with the tarot archetypes though there are similarities. Packaged in a sleeve with a descriptive book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings scanned and coloured digitally.
No of Cards :22
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Love Full Chu Tarot 2
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Date : 2009
Publisher : Shogakukan
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 62
Width : 30
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Description : Included as press out cards at the front of a monthly Shojo magazine by Shogakukan.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Magazine
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Furoku or gift
Mari Mihori Love Tarot (Ai No Tarot)
Artist : Mari Mihori
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1988
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 117
Width : 74
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Description : Adopts imagery from Classical Greek mythology. The Star is Pandora, Judgement is Hermes/Mercury, the Devil is Pan, the Wheel of Fortune the three Fates, and so on. Beautifully detailed artwork. Some of the cards are unconventionally numbered . Thus the High Priestess is 'IV' and the Empress is 'II' - Emperor 'III' and Hierophant 'V'. This appears to be intentional as her other tarot deck also adopts this ordering. The cards are in the foam padded box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Finely detailed coloured pencil drawings.
No of Cards :22
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Mythological
Tarot of Wicca
Artist : H. Kitagawa
Designer :Alexandria Mokuseioh
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Date : 1983
Publisher : Seitosha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 68
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Description : The Tarot of Wicca was created by H. Kitagawa, under the direction of Mokuseioh. Its symbolism draws on pagan, kabbalistic and new age ideas. It has references to Stonehenge, Mayan temples, magical wands, and dolls, with such elements of Western magical ritual, as cauldrons, sigils, and candles. The Major arcana even make some references to pre-Raphaelite paintings, Holman Hunt's The Light of the World (Keble College, Oxford) and Rosetti's Beata Beatrix (Tate Britain).
Some cards renamed. Empress to 'The Mother', Emperor to 'The Conqueror' and the Tower to 'The Thunder Bolt'.
Art Medium : Acrylics with some airbrushing.
No of Cards :78
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Pagan
Toro Inoue Tarot
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Date : 2010
Publisher : Sony Computer Entertainment Inc
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 130
Width : 70
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Description : The Toro Inoue Tarot is a set of rather well produced cards published by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Toro Inoue is also known as the Sony cat, as this cat who wishes to be human, is Sony's mascot in Japan. It first appeared in July 1999 as the main character in the video game Doko Demo Issyo. Ten years later this cat appears in a tarot deck.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines in reddish brown, coloured in a computer graphics program. One can almost see the different layers that make up the images.
No of Cards :22
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Animal
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Children's
Viva ! Mickey
Artist : Takashi Nishioka, Kozaburo Takekawa
Designer :Kaoru Hirose
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Date : 1979
Publisher : Kodansha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 68
Width : 30
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Description : Book with set of cut out cards in the back.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings with halftone grey colour.
No of Cards :22
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Book Illustration
Witch's Tarot Card
Artist : Lua
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 45
Width : 29
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Description : Small press-out cards given away with 2010 Misty magazine. Supplied with an instruction booklet and self assembly box.
Art Medium : Probably originated entirely digitally.
No of Cards :22
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Magazine
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World of Tarot Axis Powers Hetalia Tarot and fanbook
Artist : Ryoko and Shinia
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Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 140
Width : 70
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Description : Ryoko and Shinian belong to a doujinshi circle called 'Chronic Suicide'. This is a fan art production for the Axis Powers Hetalia game.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program. Cards printed on a shiny metallic gold foil background.
No of Cards :22
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Yorkshin Tarot Card
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Date : 2011
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 108
Width : 60
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Description : Hunter × Hunter ( Hanta Hanta), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. Yorkshin (YorkNew) city is an imagined realm within the story. This is a fan art deck created by enthusiasts for the manga. It would seem that each card depicts a character from the story. Some of the cards present original and interesting imagery, a change from the often repetitive use of established manga forms in some fan art decks.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
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Uranai Tarot (Your Future Tarot)
Artist : Will, Shigeyuki Ozawa
Designer :
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Date : 1989
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards :
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Height : 115
Width : 71
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Description : Rider Waite clone with some minor variations. The Majors are coloured while the Minors are left in black and white. The cards come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Pen drawings. The Majors are coloured with watercolour.
The Minors are black and white with some added grey toned areas.
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Rider-Waite clone
TOB Memorial Petit Tarot (Tactics Ogre Battle)
Artist : Various
Designer :
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Date : 2009
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 70
Width : 30
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Description : Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen is a computer game first issued in 1993 which incorporated a tarot deck as a key component of the action. A doujinshi or group of fans has privately printed their version of this deck. It comes with a small booklet. Strangely each card is illustrated in the booklet at almost twice the size of the actual cards !
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No of Cards :22
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Texthoth Ludo: Arcanum Senki Tarot
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Date : 1997
Publisher : SegaSaturn
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 99
Width : 57
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Description : Cards included with the CD-Rom of SegaSaturn game. Grid based adventure game featuring strategy tactics where the weapons are assorted tarot cards with special abilities, attacks and defense mechanisms. This is a grid based adventure game featuring strategy tactics. The weapons, which provide attack and defence mechanisms for the player are in the form of tarot cards. All the characters depicted in the cards are strong, and fully in control of their powers. Thus, the Fool is depicted as a powerful figure, and the Hermit, far from being self-reflective, is shown as a scientist experimenting in his laboratory. The Tower is depicted as a beared old man forming a strong bastion showing no weakness.
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No of Cards :22
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Computer Game
Tarot of Magus
Artist :
Designer :Alexandria Mokuseioh
Text :
Date : 1987
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 99
Width : 59
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Description : Version of Papus Tarot.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with process colour.
No of Cards :78
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Tarot Magic - The Message from Future
Artist : Sho Anzai
Designer :
Text :Ryuji Kagami
Date : 2004
Publisher : Shueisha, Tokyo
Country : Japan
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My Tarot of Happiness
Artist : Keiko Sugimoto
Designer :
Text :Marina Oka
Date : 1991
Publisher : Tsuchiya Bookshop, Tokyo
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 115
Width : 64
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Description : Beautiful sharply drawn and sensitively coloured conventional Rider Waite clone. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and comes with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with acrylic or guache.
No of Cards :22
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Neeju-Ku Tarot
Artist : 5*Season
Designer :
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Date : 2009
Publisher : Gallery Art Rush
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 105
Width : 61
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Description : The artwork by a female artist calling herself 5*Season is digitally realised and has wonderful soft diffused outlines set against textured backgrounds. The figures often have the tops of their heads open, not at all in a gruesome way, but suggesting the openness to ideas and the flow of life. There is also a subtext involving the stylised architecture.
Art Medium : Digitally created and finally put through some filter to soften the images. This creates a texture as if these were printed on an inkjet printer with blocked jets, but obviously this effect was created by some digital image processing.
No of Cards :22
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Ogre Battle
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Date : 1996
Publisher : Quest
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 133
Width : 70
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Description : Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen is a strategy video game for Super Nintendo Entertainment System, directed by Yasumi Matsuno with artwork by Akihiko Yoshida. This tarot deck refers to 'Episode Five'.
Art Medium : Pencil drawings coloured with watercolour. There is a textured effect to many of the images which may have been created through some computer modification of the images.
No of Cards :22
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Shiawase O Maneku Tarot
Artist : Yuusyou Fukuda
Designer :
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Date : 1989
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 113
Width : 58
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Description : Shiawase O Maneku Tarot (Fortune Comes To You) of 1989 was created by Yuusyou Fukuda. His distinctive style here dominates over the conventional tarot imagery. The complex elaboration of plant and other natural forms contrasts with the simplicity of the figures.
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No of Cards :22
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22 Tarots Divinatoires J.R. Kahn
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Publisher : Les Editions du Lezard, Moorea
Country : Tahiti
No of cards : 22
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Height : 118
Width : 68
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Description : One of two decks in similar styles issued by Editions du Lezard, probably in the 1980s. The other was by T. Oger.
Art Medium : Pen drawings with coloured pencil.
No of Cards :22
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22 Tarots Divinatoires de T. Oger
Artist : T. Oger
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Date :
Publisher : Les Editions du Lezard, Moorea
Country : Tahiti
No of cards : 22
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Height : 118
Width : 68
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Description : One of two decks in similar styles issued by Editions du Lezard, probably in the 1980s. The other was by J.R. Kahn.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour and coloured pencil.
No of Cards :22
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Fantasy Alice Tarot
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Date : 2006
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
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Height : 123
Width : 65
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Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book. This is based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland though there are few references to the book in the Majors, the Minors have a number of characters and scenes from the book.
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No of Cards :78
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Radiant Rider Waite
Artist :
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Date : 2010
Publisher : SPP
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 89
Width : 51
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Description : Promotional press-out tarot issued in a magazine, six cards at a time, over four issues. Titled but not numbered.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour, then modified in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Magazine
Furoku or gift
Goldenage Club Tarot
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Publisher : Goldenage Club
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 90
Width : 54
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Description : Early, perhaps sample, version of the 'Golden Age of Tarot' also published by the Golden Age Club of Taiwan. This has the same artwork as the later version but it is shown in a stylised graphic window hiding parts of the image.
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No of Cards :22
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Elota tarot (22 card version)
Artist : A Chu family
Designer :
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Date : 2005
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 120
Width : 69
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Description : Photographs of Taiwan, including the well known Taipei 101 as the Tower and Tianmu Baseball Stadium as the Empress. On the back of the cards is ''Elota. The adventure about searching for losing heart''.
Art Medium : Photographs primary of architecture in Taiwan.
No of Cards :22
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Self-Published
Photography
A-Mei Tea Drinking Tarot
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Date : 2006
Publisher : A-Mei
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 120
Width : 70
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Description : Promotional deck for some bottled tea based drinks. Like many promo decks this one has excellent artwork. Sadly, the artist does not get credited.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines coloured using a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Rider-Waite clone
Mo Huan Ta Luo Pai (Magic Tarot)
Artist : Emily Liu
Designer :
Text :Mrs. Tarot
Date : 2004
Publisher : Ton Chee Culture Publishing Corporation Ltd
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 123
Width : 57
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Description :
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Children's
Michelle Branch Tarot Cards
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Date : 2003
Publisher :
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 140
Width : 60
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Description : Hotel Paper is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch which was released on June 24, 2003. This is a promotional deck issued in connection with this album. Many of the cards bear a photograph of the singer, eleven in colour and eleven in black and white.
Art Medium : Colour and black and white photographs.
No of Cards :22
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Tarot of the Magical Forest
Artist : Leo Tang
Designer :Hsu Chi Chun
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Cite
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 65
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Description : Part of series of at least nine boxed tarots by Cite issued with an illustrated book. Later published by Lo Scarabeo in 2008.
Art Medium : Coloured pencil.
No of Cards :78
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Marvellous Tarot
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Novum Organum
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
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Height : 112
Width : 70
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Description : Published with a extensive paperback book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics colour.
No of Cards :22
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Deep Desire Tarot
Artist : Yi-Jun Chen
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher : Self-published
Country : Taiwan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 124
Width : 59
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Description : The pen drawings are somewhat in the style of Juan Miro. Unfortunately they are rather buried in the applied collaged elements.
Art Medium : Collage centred around a pen drawing.
No of Cards :22
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Fine Art
Self-Published
Shinpi no Tarot-Uranai (Future Secret Tarot)
Artist : Asuka Fujiwara
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1990
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 117
Width : 74
Shape :
Description : Asuka Fujiwara in her 'Future Secret Tarot' achieves a soft out of focus effect in her tarot deck, by using lightly drawn and painted forms then blotting areas of texture in the background. This is very effective, however, her tarot symbolism is traditional European with no obvious Japanese references. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Soft watercolour with blotting probably using a sponge.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Other Borders
Figurative
Starlot
Artist : Enishi Gen
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1998
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 23
Limited Edition :
Height : 94
Width : 94
Shape :Square
Description : A square shaped tarot with an astrological theme. Each card is associated either with one of the 12 zodiacal signs or with one of the 10 planets. The cards associated with the zodiacal signs have the star map of that constellation depicted. The artwork is delighfully detailed and like many Japanese tarots, is influenced primarily by European art rather than having any obvious Japanese resonances. The fool is renamed to 'The Challenger', but the rest of the cards have the conventional names. The cards are in the kind of box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Acrylic paintings.
No of Cards :23
Extra Cards :Additional card named the 'Hexagram'.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Sensei-Jyutsu Tarot
Artist : Shurei Etoile, Keichii Konno
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1990
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 80
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 75
Shape :
Description : Expanded, 80-card version of Etoile and Konno's 22-card Juni Seiza Tarot. The added Minors are a clone of the Rider Waite Minors.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :80
Extra Cards :Two extra cards - Head and Tail of the Dragon.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Nonstandard
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Fine Art
Rider-Waite clone
Ran Meri Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 205
Publisher : Sho-Comi
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 89
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : Promo deck issued by Sho-Comi childrens' magazine. Manga furoku.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Square
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Promo
Magazine
Children's
Collaborative
Furoku or gift
Renaissance Style Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 1978
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 98
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : Its Majors hark back to the origins of tarot cards, while its Minors reflect the Tarot de Marseilles. Its designs seem to have been made as watercolour drawings, but sadly were printed in black and white, doubtless for economic reasons.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Black & White
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Takashi Kitami Tarot
Artist : Takashi Kitami
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 134
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Takashi Kitami is a well-known painter and illustrator with a distinct style for drawing the human figure. His work spans the world of fine art and graphic illustration. He has had many solo exhibitions and much commercial success with his book covers, etc. Kitami's figures are distinctive in that they are elongated with small heads set on long necks. He seems to adopt this style for all his artwork, which makes his work immediately recognisable. Here he creates a tarot in this inimitable style which was given away free with a magazine. The artwork was the basis for his World of Tarot exhibition in January 2005 at the Span art gallery, Tokyo. The images appear to be based on an early French deck, perhaps the Oswald Wirth tarot.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Magazine
Fine Art
Furoku or gift
Tarot 22
Artist : Toshiko Tuchihashi
Designer :
Text :Ariadne Yuko
Date : 1991
Publisher : Goto Shoin, Tokyo.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 108
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Strange stylised figures, some with odd elephant trunk like noses, and geometric shaped eyes.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Children's
Rabu Mazyuku Tarot
Artist : Kim Tougen
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1991
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 116
Width : 73
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Nova the Revolution Revisited Tarot
Artist : Taro Suzubuki
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2002
Publisher : Game Field Co Ltd
Country : Japan
No of cards : 30
Limited Edition :
Height : 102
Width : 62
Shape :
Description : Tarot cards included with a role-playing game entitled Nova: the Revolution Revisited. The tarot card are each associated with a character in the game, while the 8 additional cards are cards drawn to determine the progress of the game. The game seems similar to Blade of Arcana series by the same original publisher.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :30
Extra Cards :8 additional game cards
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Game
Tarot for the School of Athens
Artist : Tachibana
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : 'Saint Seiya' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada and serialized in 'Weekly Shonen Jump' from 1986 to 1991, later adapted into an anime TV series by Toei Animation. It continues to hold a considerable fan base and there have been at least three tarot decks issued.
This deck is based on a fan fiction by Suixinsuiyuan using the Saint Seiya characters. The artwork by Tachibana is very fine in a naturalistic manga style.

Art Medium : Pen drwaings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Wachifield
Artist : Akiko Ikeda, Kagami Ryuji
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 103
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : The Wachifield Tarot is based on a manga character, a cat called Dayan, who lives in the imaginary world of Wachifield, created by author and illustrator Akiko Ikeda. There are apparently nearly forty books featuring Wachifield and its inhabitants, so eventually the publishers must have decided that the time was ripe for a Wachifield tarot. This series of immensely popular books seems to be totally unknown outisde Japan. On the Magician card, we see the mysterious Dayan and on the Lovers card, he is with his friend Marcy, who is a hare rather than a cat.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Vocaloid Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2012
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 182
Width : 80
Shape :
Description : Vocaloid is a singing synthesizer developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain in 2000. Yamaha Corporation developed the software into the commercial product "Vocaloid". This is currently used in some Japanese anime.
This tarot is a promotional item for Vocaloid. As Vocaloid version 3 was launched on October 21, 2011, along with several Japanese and Korean products, this tarot deck may have been associated with that launch.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Corners Square
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Promo
Furoku or gift
Ukiyoe Tarot (Japan)
Artist : Koji Furuta
Designer :Stuart Kaplan
Text :
Date : 1982
Publisher : U.S. Games
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 113
Width : 62
Shape :
Description : Created in imitation of traditional Japanese woodblock (Ukiyoe) style from the Tokagawa period of Japanese history (17th and 18th centuries).
The Ukiyoe, seemingly the most Japanese of tarots was actually conceived by Stuart Kaplan, the American tarot publisher who has a deep interest in, and knowledge of Japanese art. He asked a number of artists to design a deck in imitation of the traditional Japanese woodblock style from the Tokagawa period (17th and 18th centuries). Unfortunately, he was not happy with any of the designs and after some time got into discussion with the Angel Playing Card Manufacturing Co in Japan, who eventually commissioned Koji Furuta to create the paintings for his cards. Kaplan was actively involved in the designs, which were finally printed in Japan in 1982. They were extensively distributed in the USA and Europe under the U.S. Games Systems’ imprint. The same printing was issued in Japan and the USA but in different packagings. Japanese edition was in a solid box with cardboard sleeve.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Minors with pips
Figurative
Tarot de Marseilles
Magical Tarot (Yayapuri)
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2007
Publisher : Ribon #4
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 42
Width : 31
Shape :
Description : Ribon (Ribbon) is a shoujo-themed manga magazine released monthly in Japan.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
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Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Furoku or gift
Illustrations for Tarot Card of Yoshitaka Amano
Artist :
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Date : 1997
Publisher :
Country : Japan
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Description : Large format book with illustrations for Amano's tarot deck. The Majors and the Court cards are included, together with some other of his illustrations.
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Majors
Minors
Figurative
Book Illustration
Cocktail de Tarot
Artist : Shemay (Shimmei)
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2000
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 109
Width : 72
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Computer image collage with computer generated graphics. Possibly using Poser or similar software.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Coloring Book of Tarot
Artist : Naoko Hirose, Kangetsu Jiyu, Shinji Yamamoto, and Mako.
Designer :
Text :Chicobell
Date : 2007
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards :
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Description : A colouring book containing four tarot designs by Naoko Hirose, Kangetsu Jiyu, Shinji Yamamoto, and Mako. These are Majors only decks. They are reproduced in the book twice, firstly coloured, then in the form of line drawings for the reader to colour and cut out.
Art Medium : Line drawings coloured with watercolour.
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Majors
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Figurative
Book Illustration
Petit Tarot
Artist : Karashima Yoshio
Designer :
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Date : 1979
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 91
Width : 26
Shape :
Description : Karashima Yoshio has focused on the Majors and has not spent much time on the Minors. The style of the figures seems to draw a little on 'hippie' or 'new age' imagery.
Art Medium : A series of pen drawings coloured by the application of process colour, using blends and fades decades before Photoshop.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with pips
Figurative
Pyschic Force Tarot (Unofficial)
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 91
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : Psychic Force (Saikikku Fosu) is a 1995 fighting arcade game created by Taito which was later ported to the PlayStation in 1996. In 2006 it was released for the PlayStation 2. This is a fan art deck created by the collaboration of a number of artists.
Art Medium : Mostly created digitally.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Computer Game
Collaborative
Doujinshi
Cat's House Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2001
Publisher : SSS factory, Inc.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : On some cards the cats are in human clothes and in others are au naturale. This is supplied in a tall metal tin.
Art Medium : The Cat's House Tarot, has been created using photo collage, which has then been modified using various painting tools in a computer graphic program.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Corners Rounded
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Rider Waite order
Figurative
Animal
Cat
Photography
Angelique
Artist : Yura Kairi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2000
Publisher : Movic
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 121
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a hinged tin box.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in graphics program and set against a complex background.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
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Figurative
Manga
AnAn Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2007
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 70
Width : 33
Shape :
Description : Included in Japanese magazine AnAn No. 1587. November 2007.
Art Medium : Simple forms created in watercolour, probably using masking.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : D
Majors
Corners Square
White Borders
Figurative
Magazine
Furoku or gift
Dr. Rin Tarot
Artist : Kiyoko Arai
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2001
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 96
Width : 53
Shape :
Description : Tarot included free with a manga magazine. 'Dr. Rin' is a fortune teller character in a series of comic books - Dr. Rin ni Kiitemite.
Art Medium : Line drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Figurative
Manga
Promo
Children's
Angel Mithra's Tarot of Love
Artist : Naoko Okano
Designer :
Text :Masato Tojo
Date : 1996
Publisher : Kokusho-Kankokai, Tokyo.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 103
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : This deck incorporates conventional European style imagery alongside more anime figures of young women with long limbs and sylised faces. There is a theme of winged angelic forms. The deck has been translated 'The Unreacheable love of the Angel' Tarot. This could be seen as a transitional work between the European inspired artwork of early Japanese tarots and the later flowering of the anime style. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case. Tenshi Mitora no Renai Tarot.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolor or water based acrylic.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Children's
Blade of Arcana 2 The Second Edition
Artist : Junko Taguchi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2001
Publisher : EnterBrain Inc.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 30
Limited Edition :
Height : 102
Width : 66
Shape :
Description : Blade of Arcana is a fantasy role playing game issued in 1999. Like many RPGs it is set in a medieval world. The player characters have the three stigmata of the 22 Arcaeus (apostles of the light) engraved on their bodies. These each correspond to a Major arcanum of the tarot. The game takes the form of a large book of rules combined with a set of tarot cards and some other cards, which are used in the game. It is now in its third edition, with each version being extended and developed and consequently having a new set of tarot designs.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :30
Extra Cards :8 extra cards
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Game
Love Full Chu Tarot Card 1
Artist : Ayu Minana
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Shogakukan
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 41
Width : 30
Shape :
Description : Set of cut out cards at the front of a graphic novel.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : D
Majors
Corners Square
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Children's
Furoku or gift
Waku Waku Doki Doki Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 85
Width : 44
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Furoku or gift
Penguin Tarot
Artist : Mamoru and Hisae Hamatsu
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Supplied with a small booklet.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in a computer graphics program, using graduated tones and some textures.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
Other Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Animal
Self-Published
Rozen Maiden carrot rabbit
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 85
Width : 50
Shape :
Description : Promo deck for the Rosen Maiden manga. The 'Rozen Maidens' are a collection of dolls created by a craftsman named Rozen.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Promo
Children's
Snow Brand Ice Cream Promo
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 1990s
Publisher : Snow Brand
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 63
Width : 43
Shape :
Description : Promotional deck for Snow Brand Flavorland Ice Cream. Date uncertain but likely to be before 2000 when the company merged with Nestle.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Promo
Ota Daihachi Tarot
Artist : Ota Daihachi
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1977
Publisher : Sekai-bunkasha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : The Ota Daihachi Tarot was printed in 'Sekaino utato meruhen vol.9. Utano tubasani', published by Sekai-bunkasha, Tokyo, around 1977. (''Poetry and fairy tales of the World vol.9. On the wings of songs.''). Vol.9 featured German Poems ; Wild Rose series of Goethe, Heinne etc. Music from J.S.Bach, Schuman, Richard Strauss etc. Each volume was packaged in a small cardboard shelf box containing a cassette tape of music, a book of text, and a book of pictures. Ota Daihachi was born in 1918 was brought up in Nagasaki, and later moved to Tokyo. Later, graduated from the Department of Design, Tama Art University. Then worked on illustrations for younger children's magazines and books. Winner of many awards such as the Nihon Gaka Award (1955), Shogakukan Kaiga Award (1959), domestic prize of the Hans Christian Andersen Award (1969), second prize of the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Has a great variety of styles from orthodox oil painting style to Japanese traditional painting style.
Art Medium : Bold pen drawn outlines imitating the style of European woodcuts. Coloured with watercolour, perhaps gouache.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Marseilles order
Figurative
Book Illustration
Tarot Fortune Telling of Love which calls Happiness
Artist : K.H. Nikorasu and Belne
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1991
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 68
Shape :
Description : The extremely detailed pen drawings are subtly coloured, and in Art Nouveau style with the flowing organic lines and the conventional decorative elements familiar in Art Nouveau. The imagery holds close to the Rider Waite deck. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case.
Art Medium : Fine pen drawings with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
Tarot Uranai (3DO)
Artist :
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Date : 1995
Publisher : Ariadne
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 85
Width : 56
Shape :
Description : Computer game on 3DO platform with set of cards. The card images are clearly influenced by Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot, whose designs were created by Lady Frieda Harris in the early 1940s.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Computer Game
Yu Yu Hakusho
Artist : Juria
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 95
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : YuYu Hakusho (''Ghost Files'' or ''Poltergeist Report'') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from December 1990 to July 1994. This deck is a self-published doujinshi or fan art deck produced in lamination pouches.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with felt marker pens.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Square
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Children's
Doujinshi
Universal Tarot
Artist : Naoki Yamamoto
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 82
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Naoki Yamamoto has been active as a mangaka since 1984, initially using pen-names like Tou Moriyama and Mori Touyama. Among his popular serials are the romantic comedy 'Dance Till Tomorrow' (1989-1991). The cards images are presented on top of a parchement style background. Much use of subtle gradient fills. The figures are graceful and stylish with long limbs. The Minors follow the emblematic sequence presented in the Rider-Waite.
A card signed and numbered by the artist is included.

Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics, or possibly originated entirely digitally
No of Cards :82
Extra Cards :4 extra cards. Alternative versions of the Wheel of Fortune, Justice, the Devil and the Moon.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Rider-Waite clone
Magic Story of Misa
Artist : Akemi Takada
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1998
Publisher : Sammy
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 140
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Cards included with this Playstation game.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured using computer program, with some collaged elements in the background.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
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Marseilles order
Figurative
Manga
Computer Game
Particle Tarot
Artist : Ken Kumagai
Designer :Ryuichi Izumi
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Eastpress
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 96
Width : 53
Shape :
Description : This tarot is included as cutouts in the issue of the 'Love and Fortune Calendar Book' for April 2009. The designs are rather interesting using a dominant black outline with strong colouring.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : C
Majors
Corners Square
White Borders
Figurative
Magazine
Furoku or gift
Minami Clara Tarot
Artist : Minami Clara
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : SSC
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 102
Width : 52
Shape :
Description : Cut out cards printed on heavy stock at the back of a book. Also includes a box for the cards which can be assembled. There is an audio CD in a pocket at the back of the book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Book Illustration
Little World - The Child Room
Artist : Ame
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 95
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Ame Zaiku is candy art in Japan, food sculptures usually on sticks like lollipops, created by hand, often by street vendors on the spot, from mizuame (boiled sugar starch) with applied strong food colouring. This tarot draws on this candy art form for inspiration. The creator "Ame" has also written and self published two children's books the 'Little Kingdom' and the 'Little World'. These tarot designs seem to relate to the 'Little World' book.
The cards are unnumbered.

Art Medium : Pen drawings scanned, modified and coloured digitally.
No of Cards :22
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Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Gundam Seed
Artist :
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 81
Width : 50
Shape :
Description : Mobile Suit Gundam Seed is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. The television series was broadcast in Japan between 2002 and 2003. The series spawned three compilations films and was adapted into a manga as well as various light novels. Various types of merchandising have also been released, including models, CD soundtracks and video games.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
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Majors
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Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Doujinshi
Carot Card
Artist : Yoko Imamura
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Nenneko-Ya - Katsumi Art Studio
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : yes
Height : 135
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Carot Card, 2006, is a deck issued through the Katsumi Design Studio, which sells all sorts of cat-related artwork, books and paraphernalia. The artwork is by Yoko Imamura, and places cats within a standard Tarot of Marseilles. Presumably the title arises from a collision of 'Cat' and 'Tarot'.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :yes
Price indication : B
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Figurative
Animal
Cat
Tarot de Marseilles
Angelique Innocence Tarot card illustrations
Artist : Marumi Yamamoto
Designer :
Text :Mimu
Date : 2000
Publisher : Miffys
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 242
Width : 120
Shape :
Description : Angelique is a video game series in Japan. In the series of stories the Queen of the Cosmos with the help of nine Guardians balances the elemental forces. Eventually this harmony becomes disrupted and a 17-year-old girl named Angelique Limoges is chosen by the Queen and her aide Dia as one of two candidates from the Royal Smallney Girls' Academy to become the next Queen. There are some other Angelique tarots. This one is an official version.
Art Medium : Pen drawings with some halftone shading.
No of Cards :22
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Corners Square
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Figurative
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Book Illustration
Cats Tarot
Artist : Saiya Kusano
Designer :Alexandria Mokuseioh
Text :
Date : 1991
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Description : The Cats tarot is one of the earliest examples of a Japanese cat themed tarot. This was created by the prolific Alexandria Mokuseioh, with the artist being Saiya Kusano. The imagery incorporates domestic cats, wild leopards, tigers and cheetahs. On some of the cards, Mokuseioh gives an astrological context, with his Star card showing a constellation of the cat and the World card depicting a cat gazing at a starry constellation. The Devil card is interesting in that the devil is depicted as a human being wearing a cat mask.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Animal
Cat
Fresh Pretty Cure! Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher : Self- Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 92
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : Fresh Pretty Cure! (Furesshu PuriKyua!) is a Japanese anime series produced by Toei Animation and directed by Junji Shimizu. It was first aired in Japan on TV Asahi between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010. The series main themes involve traditional playing card suits, as well as fruits and clovers. These symbols and objects are strongly associated with the cures, magical devices and attacks that the characters use. This is a fan art deck
produced by some uncredited enthusiasts for the anime.
Art Medium : Created digitally.
No of Cards :22
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Majors
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Figurative
Children's
Self-Published
Doujinshi
J.K. Tarot
Artist : Seigan Nakajima
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1989
Publisher : Tairiku Shobo
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 118
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Beautiful Rider-Waite clone created by Nakajima in 1975 incorporating elements from the B.O.T.A. tarot. The first edition was published in a fiberboard snap-top box with a small booklet. This second edition is supplied in a box with a large book.
Art Medium : Beautifully redrawn and intensely coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :78
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Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
B-Tarot (Basara)
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 148
Width : 100
Shape :
Description : Tarot created by a Doujinshi called Soraneryouka based on the Basara manga. Basara is a shojo manga written by Yumi Tamura, which ran to 27 volumes. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shojo in 1992. It was later adapted as an anime.
Art Medium : Various media.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Corners Square
Black Borders
Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Doujinshi
Final Fantasy - Type Zero Tarotism
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards :
Limited Edition :
Height : 127
Width : 67
Shape :
Description : A collaborative fan deck created by 15 different artists, most of whom appear to be using pseudonyms. Issued as a deck of cards and illustrations in a large format book. Final Fantasy, initially created in 1987 by Hironobu Sakaguchi, is owned by Square Enix. This is a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games with related anime, printed media, and other merchandise.
Art Medium : Digitally created but made to appear as pen and watercolour.
No of Cards :
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Standard
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Figurative
Manga
Self-Published
Collaborative
Fantasy :1
Doujinshi
Nana (Black Stones)
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Japanese sho-jo manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa. Nana has been made into a film which was released in 2005. The film stars Mika Nakashima as the punk star Nana Osaki. The DVD edition was released on March 3, 2006 and included this tarot deck. The film did quite well at the Japanese box office, grossing more than 4 billion yen, staying in the top 10 for several weeks. The cards images do not follow closely the tarot structure but instead show characters from the manga.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured using computer program, with some collaged heart forms in the background.
No of Cards :22
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Majors
Standard
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Marseilles order
Minors with pips
Figurative
Manga
Promo
Vogue Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 137
Width : 99
Shape :
Description : The Vogue Tarot was created as a promotional deck for Vogue magazine in Japan. It used, the stylish, Vogue cover art from the early 20th century. Each cover has been chosen to reflect, in some way, the conventional tarot images. Surprisingly, many of these are quite apt and work very well as tarot images.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Majors
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Figurative
Promo
Magazine
Moon Princess Himiko (Ai to Shinpi no Tarotto Uranai)
Artist : Ayumi Kasai
Designer :Moon Princess Himiko
Text :
Date : 1993
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 115
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : The Moonprincess Himiko Tarot was conceived by Moonprincess Himiko, a popular writer and astrologer. The artwork is by Ayumi Kasai a well-known graphic artist with many art books and magazine covers to her credit. Her Fool card incorporates the well known Ko-omote mask and her Magician references a Bunraku puppet.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :78
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Fine Art
Tarocca
Artist : Masahiro Kakinokihara
Designer :Trulie Okamocek and Ryuji Kagami
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Bijutsu
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 72
Width : 64
Shape :Hexagonal
Description : This was a development of an earlier game Rocca Spiele.
The title 'Rocca' derives from the Japanese word Rokkaku - hexagon. This was used to play a number of pattern matching games.
This tarot form 'Tarocca', fusing the original game concept with tarot, arose out of a meeting of the designers with Ryuji Kagami.

Art Medium : Pen drawings modified in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Rider Waite order
Abstract
Figurative
Comic Fans Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2001
Publisher : Comic Fans
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 49
Width : 30
Shape :
Description : Included with Comic Fans 2001 issue 5.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Figurative
Magazine
Children's
Furoku or gift
Derakkusu ban Hihou Tarot
Artist : Kazumi Niikura
Designer :Mondo Oki and Mei Unasaka
Text :
Date : 1999
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 109
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Black and white pen drawings are wonderfully stylised, with beautiful flowing lines. The artwork knows European art well, and the drawing style draws on various sources, for example, we note some influence from Aubrey Beardsley. Mondo Oki also quotes from other art tarots in his designs. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case. Derakkusu ban Hihou Tarot translates to 'The Wonderful Version of the Secret Method of Tarot' was first issued in 1991. It seems to have been designed by Mondo Oki and Mei Unasaka with the final artwork executed by Kazumi Niikura. Even though it is very Japanese in style one suspects that the artist may have been aware of the pen drawings of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98).
Art Medium : Pen drawings with use of large solid black areas.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : B
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Standard
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Figurative
Fine Art
RK Astrology of Love Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 66
Shape :
Description : Promotional item, supplied in a velvet bag with draw string.
Art Medium : Oil paintings.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Figurative
Promo
Yokai (Monster) Tarot
Artist : Takeshi Ogasawara
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2002
Publisher : Shueisha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 62
Width : 88
Shape :Landscape
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Mythological
Fine Art
Luck with Money Tarot
Artist : Lua
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2013
Publisher : East Press
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 75
Width : 45
Shape :
Description : Issued with the February 2013 issue of Kaiuncho magazine. Printed on thick card to be cut out by the reader.
Art Medium : Pen and watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Children's
Furoku or gift
Costume Tarot
Artist : Keiko Shibata
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 73
Shape :
Description : The Costume Tarot by Keiko Shibata emerged out of five years work designing theatrical costume during which time she posed her models to reflect a tarot image. Keiko Shibata is a costume, mask and theatre designer who has exhibited widely in Japan, Europe and the USA. She trained in Paris and Lyon and thus has a wide appreciation of international fashion. She also has an especial interest in Venetian masks.
Art Medium : Posed photographs.
No of Cards :22
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Figurative
Fine Art
Photography
George Domon Tarot - Aino No Tarot Uranai
Artist : George Domon
Designer :
Text :George Domon
Date : 1989
Publisher : Natsume-Sha, Tokyo.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 124
Width : 72
Shape :
Description : Domon creatively explores the conventional tarot imagery through this finely detailed painted tarot. Very much in the European style with little Japanese influence on the artwork. The cards are in the cut out foam box characteristic of Japanese tarot packaging and come with a book in a slip case. The title translates to - 'Tarot Fortune Telling of Love'.
Art Medium : Paintings, probably acrylic.
No of Cards :22
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Ayako Ono Tarot
Artist : Ayako Ono
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2011
Publisher : Tsuchiya
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 75
Shape :
Description : Supplied with extensive book boxed with protective folder in a sleeve.
Art Medium : Digitally created.
No of Cards :22
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Children's
Alchemia Tarot Deck
Artist : Takaki
Designer :
Text :Ako Morimura
Date : 2012
Publisher : Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 123
Width : 75
Shape :
Description : The artwork for this deck is by Takaki one of the leading digital artists in Japan. Her style often involves ethereal forms, often winged. Despite the title this deck would seem to have little symbolic connection to alchemy, instead it is a rather beautiful Rider Waite clone. Supplied with a book, boxed in a sleeve.
Art Medium : Digitally created in Photoshop CS5.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
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Rider-Waite clone
Fantasy :1
Ace of Tarot
Artist : Ogasa Shin
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Ogasa Shin is a prolific illustrator working in monotone pen drawings and coloured artwork. The drawing is very strong.
Art Medium : Pen and brush ink drawings.
No of Cards :22
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Standard
Black & White
Corners Rounded
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Black Borders
Figurative
Self-Published
Disney Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1980s
Publisher : Epoch Co.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : This was published by Epoch Co. in Japan, probably sometime in the 1980s. Epoch Co issued computer games and often produced sets of cards as promotional items for these games. They had a commercial connection with Disney who allowed them to produce some games based on Disney characters, for example 'Donald Duck and the Magic Cap', 1995.
This Disney deck includes characters from Snow White, Robin Hood among others.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour and process colour.
No of Cards :22
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Price indication : A
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Figurative
Promo
Children's
Lunatic and Yuri Petrov Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 90
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : 'Lunatic' and 'Yuri Petrov' are two of the main characters in Tiger & Bunny (Taiga Ando Bani) a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise under the direction of Keiichi Satou.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Manga
Self-Published
Collaborative
Doujinshi
New Egiptian Tarot Cards
Artist : Norio Karasima
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1974
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 101
Width : 54
Shape :
Description : This was later issued in a negative version, white lines on a black background. In 1896 in France, R. Falconnier and Otto Wegener, designed a tarot deck in an ancient Egyptian style. This was enthusiastically taken up and unashamedly copied by various publishers in the USA during the first half of the 20th century. However, the creator of the Japanese New Egiptian Tarot, chose rather to create his images based on the Rider-Waite deck. The Minor arcana are entirely derived from it but his Majors indicate a familiarity with some of the Falconnier/Wegener cards, or one of its later variants. The Tower clearly appears to have been influenced by one of these earlier Western decks. The New Egiptian Tarot was reprinted in 1996 as a photonegative, reversing the white with black, but keeping the original orientation.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :78
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Egyptian
Luna Tarot (Seiden Runa Tarotto Senjutu)
Artist : Kazumi Akutsu
Designer :
Text :Marika Koizumi
Date : 2000
Publisher : Gakken
Country : Japan
No of cards : 28
Limited Edition :
Height : 112
Width : 72
Shape :
Description : No clear tarot structure.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolours.
No of Cards :28
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Nonstandard
Standard
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Figurative
Yukinori Tokoro Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2001
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 176
Width : 102
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Figurative
Fine Art
Tarot of Herbs
Artist :
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher : Windmill
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
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Description :
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No of Cards :22
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Peace Tarot
Artist : Misuzu Itateyama
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 73
Shape :
Description : First issued in 2008. Strong, decisive brushed ink black outlines coloured with watercolour. She has had a number of exhibitions in Japanese galleries, and also works for the graphics industry. She describes her work as contemporary Japanese style art. This deck was made into an app for Android.
Art Medium : Pen and watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Fine Art
Spiritual Tarot
Artist : Aya Takano
Designer :
Text :Reika Akatsuki
Date : 2010
Publisher : Kakai Kiki Co., Ltd
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 129
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : In most of the images the main figure, almost invariably a young girl, is accompanied by animals. Supplied in a slip case with a book and a protective sleeve for the cards.
Art Medium : Lightly sketched in pencil, then the lines painted by brush and coloured with watercolours.
No of Cards :22
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Animal
Children's
Tarot of the Revelation
Artist : Christopher Earnshaw
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 112
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Christopher Earnshaw bases his tarot on the Biblical Book of Revelation as interpreted by Edgar Cayce. He is the director of the Edgar Cayce Centre in Japan.
Art Medium : Computer generated collage, possibly with use of human figure drawing software.
No of Cards :78
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Karma Tarot (Karuma Tarot)
Artist : Takahashi Yosuke
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Media Juggler Co.
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Figurative
AnAn
Artist : Kao
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2002
Publisher : An.An magazine
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 71
Width : 35
Shape :
Description : Set of small cut-out tarot cards issued with a 2002 issue of the Japanese fashion magazine AnAn. The art, in pen and watercolour, is rather stylish. The artist signed each card 'Kao' but it has not been possible to further to identify this person.
Art Medium : Pen and watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Magazine
Furoku or gift
F.O.X.
Artist : Os Rabbit Cat
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2001
Publisher : Kodansha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 89
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : Furoku tarot in Comic Fans magazine. These also appeared in a Chinese comic book published in Hong Kong.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Price indication : D
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Magazine
Children's
Furoku or gift
My Birthday Tarot
Artist : Akemi Matsuzaki
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : M.B. Books
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 94
Width : 53
Shape :
Description : Press out cards at front of 'My Birthday' Magazine 137.
Art Medium : Pen outlines coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Magazine
Children's
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Love Fortune Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Kotsu Times Sha
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 70
Width : 30
Shape :
Description : Cut out free gift tarot in the Japanese 'Love Fortune' magazine.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Furoku or gift
Magic Tarot of the Master Illustrators of the World
Artist : Various artists
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 135
Width : 62
Shape :
Description : The major arcana are associated with Classical Greek Gods: Fool-Dionysos, Magician-Hermes, High Priestess-Persephone, etc.
Art Medium : Collaborative tarot with a number of different artistic styles using various media.
No of Cards :78
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Mythological
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Fantasy :1
Treasure Tarot (Capture of Wealth)
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 114
Width : 69
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program. Some use of photo-collaged elements in backgrounds.
No of Cards :22
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Manga
Harry Potter and the Tarot of Wizard
Artist : Fu Yu, Little Cloud and Silver Fire
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Rainbow Fantasia
Country : China
No of cards : 24
Limited Edition :
Height : 148
Width : 69
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :24
Extra Cards :Two extra cards, one a Joker.
Limited Edition :
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Saint Seiya Tarots
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Pegasus Fantasy
Country : China
No of cards : 22
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Height : 133
Width : 69
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Description : Saint Seiya also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada and serialized in 'Weekly Shonen Jump' from 1986 to 1991, and adapted into an anime TV series by Toei Animation from 1986 to 1989.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics software. Some may have been originally outlined in pen drawings.
No of Cards :22
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Shinpi No Tarot Uranai (Big Arukana 22)
Artist : Mondo Oki and Mei Unasaka
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1995
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
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Height : 122
Width : 55
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Description : Reprint of original 1991 edition in elongated Chinese format.
Art Medium : Pen and brushed ink coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Old English Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2006
Publisher : Sohu
Country : China
No of cards : 78
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Height : 120
Width : 64
Shape :
Description : Version of the 'Old English Tarot' by Maggie Kneen from 1997, probably printed without authorisation. Chinese titles replace the English. Supplied in a solid box with magnetic closer. Large paperback book included.
Art Medium : The original was created in watercolour or acrylic paintings.
No of Cards :78
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Tarot of Love
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
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Height : 120
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Supplied with a book.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Children's
What's Going On ? Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2003
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
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Height : 124
Width : 54
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour, in some areas leaving marks through use of large brush.
No of Cards :22
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Angel Sanctuary
Artist : Kaori Yuki
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : Angel Sanctuary is a shojo manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Originally serialized in Hana to Yume from February 1995 to February 2001, it was later released in North America in an English language version. This is essentially a collectable produced for fans using art work from the manga, and there seems little tarot content. Some images are printed in landscape format. The cards are printed with a standard border and titles, which is used in a number of related tarots produced by this company. The cards are packaged in a tough polythene box. This contains a booklet, which was reused with different image on the cover in other tarots issued by this company.
Art Medium : For the most part these are pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :78
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Tenshi No Tarot Uranai
Artist : Mary Primavella
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 33
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Description : Originally published in Japan in 1995 by Seibido Shuppan Co, Ltd. Chinese translation rights arranged through Tohan Corp, Tokyo and Keio Cultural Enterprise, Co. Ltd. Press-out cards printed on thick card at the back of the book, together with a self assembly box. Supplied with 11 extra cards which do not appear to be directly connected to the tarot.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour, often using arirbrush.
No of Cards :33
Extra Cards :11 extra cards.
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Children's
Tarot of Cupid (Cupid Bistro Tarot )
Artist : Aki
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Firedog Computer Entertainment Ltd
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 139
Width : 71
Shape :
Description : This would appear to be a promotional deck for a PC game 'Cupid Magic Radio Show'. Issued in Hong Kong. Printed on very thick card stock. Supplied in a box with a small booklet.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Passion Tarot
Artist : Kao Yung
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1997
Publisher : Cite
Country : China
No of cards : 22
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Height : 131
Width : 70
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Description : Some cards are renamed, but retain tarot symbolism. Thus Empress - The Mother; Emperor - The Father; Hierophant - The Master; Chariot - Companionship; Justice - Balance; Hermit - The Seekers; Wheel - Destiny; Strength - Climax; Hanged Man - Reversal; Death - Transformation; Temperance - Wholeness; Devil - Entanglement; Tower - Lightning; Judgement - The Call.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Slamdunk Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Slam Dunk manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shohoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and has been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation. This tarot is essentially a fan art deck. There is at least one other Slam Dunk Tarot.
Art Medium : Pen drawings modified and coloured in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Pili Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Pili is a long running puppet television show in Taiwan. This is a full 78 card deck using photographs of puppets with elaborate hairstyles and costumes. There seem to have been little attempt to pose the puppets to reflect the tarot images. This is not an official release by the production company Pili International Multimedia, but pirated images printed in China. The box bears the label 'Poker workshop No.208'. The Battlestar Galactica Tarot was also released by this Chinese company.
Art Medium : Photographs of puppets.
No of Cards :78
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Girl's Magic Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2003
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 131
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Gift in unidentified magazine, probably published in Hong Kong.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Full Metal Alchemist
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 54
Shape :
Description : There is no discernable connection between the image chosen on each card and the tarot archetypes. This is produced merely as a collectable for fans of the 'Full Metal Alchemist' anime. This could well be unauthorised. There are other versions of this, using different images, printed in China. Supplied in a box with foam cut-out protection for the cards, plus a book.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Asaph.z
Artist : Asaph.z
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Self-published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 60
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Pen and brushed on ink.
No of Cards :22
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Bleach Tarot
Artist : Xue Jing
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 138
Width : 80
Shape :
Description : Bleach is a manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo, which was serialised from 2001-8, and adapted as an anime. It begins with the hero accidentally acquiring the powers of a shinigami, a guide of the dead. Thus as a Soul Reaper he intervenes in peoples’ destinies and tries to protect them from the evil Hollows who feed on human life energy. The Bleach Tarot is a fan art production, a doujinshi rather than an officially released tarot.
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No of Cards :22
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Magic Love Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 105
Width : 57
Shape :
Description : Promotional tarot issued with a novel. Eleven of the cards depict human figures, presumably the main characters in the novel.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Classical Tarot
Artist : Ayumi Kasai
Designer :Moon Princess Himiko
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
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Height : 133
Width : 55
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Description : This is a later printing of the Japanese tarot Moon Princess Himiko produced in 1993.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :78
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Dream Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 80
Limited Edition :
Height : 124
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : Fantasy art compilation deck. This appears to have been issued as a gift deck with a novel. The artwork for the Majors and Courts is well chosen and appropriate. The suits are named Crosier, Sangreal, Star and Glaive. The artwork is among the best of fantasy art. The box cover has some artwork apparently by H. R. Giger. The Major arcana are labelled with the paths between the sephiroth to which they correspond.
Art Medium : Created by various artists mostly using computer graphics program with much use of layers and collage.
No of Cards :80
Extra Cards :Two extra cards - the 'Big Tarot' and the 'Small Tarot'.
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Magical
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Fantasy :1
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Arcanum Paradisus
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : U235
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 135
Width : 81
Shape :
Description : Touhou Doujinshi tarot deck. Japanese and Chinese illustrators contribute items. It comes with a large paperback with all the images illustrated and commented upon.
Art Medium : For the most part these are either pen drawn outlines, coloured in a computer graphics program, or entirely realised in computer graphics.
No of Cards :22
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Magic Star Tarot (Star's Fire)
Artist : Yijing Guo
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Chinaculture
Country : China
No of cards : 78
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Height : 116
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Beautifully produced Rider Waite clone. Supplied in a big solid box with a book.
Art Medium : Coloured pencil.
No of Cards :78
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Cosplay Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 116
Width : 72
Shape :
Description : Issued as promotional gift with Chinese National Geography magazine.
Art Medium : Posed photographs of models in cosplay costumes, set against a background of a star field astronomical photograph.
No of Cards :22
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Yamei Culture Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 111
Width : 50
Shape :
Description : The human figures in the foregrounds are somewhat unintegrated with their background. They stand like a layer in front of the background.
Art Medium : Created using computer graphics program, with much obvious use of layers and collaged background.
No of Cards :78
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Maschera Tarot
Artist : Fang Yu
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Self-published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 87
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : This has images of Venetian style masks set against the backdrop of paintings of the Grand Canal and other scences in Venice. It is uncertain whether the images were created by the artist or they used photographs of existing masks. This is from the same publisher/artist as the Carnevale Tarot and Galaxies Tarot. The cards are laminated with the same sparkly laminate used in the other decks by this artist. In some lighting conditions when looked at face on, the sparkles somewhat interfere with viewing the image itself, but by holding them at a slight angle the sparkles disappear and the picture can be clearly seen.
Art Medium : Computer manipulated photo-collage.
No of Cards :22
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Photography
Legend of Galactic Heroes
Artist :
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Date : 1990
Publisher :
Country : China
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Description : Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a series of science fiction novels by Yoshiki Tanaka. An anime adaptation of the novels ran from 1988 to 1997, and a manga is also based on the novels, with art by Katsumi Michihara. Titles in Italian. Some of the artists' names on the top of the cards seem German.
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Animal Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2010
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 116
Width : 68
Shape :
Description : Supplied in box with magnetic closer together with a book. The suits are renaimed to 'Shapeshifters' (insects), 'Four-Legged' (Mammals), 'Winged Ones' (birds) and 'Ancients' (reptiles).
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Battlestar Galactica
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the Battlestar Galactica TV series in 1978 and was reworked as a new series in 2004. This tarot is not an official release by the production company but pirated images printed in China. The box bears the label 'Poker workshop No.205'. The Pili Tarot was also released by this Chinese company. An attempt has been made in the Majors to reflect the tarot archetype in the choice of photographs.
Art Medium : Photographs from the later series. Some printed in landscape format.
No of Cards :78
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Chu Novel Promotional Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Comic Fans
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 122
Width : 56
Shape :
Description : Promotional gift given away with a graphic novel.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Egyptian Tarot
Artist : Silvana Alasia
Designer :
Text :Kaern Li
Date : 2006
Publisher : Grafix Pro. Ltd
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Printing of the Majors from the 'Egyptian Tarot' of Silvana Alasia, published by Lo Scarabeo in 2003.
Art Medium : Originally created in tempera on papyrus.
No of Cards :22
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Egyptian
Tarot Saka
Artist : Indra Ferdianto
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2011
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Indonesia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Close clone of the Rider-Waite. Created digitally often using stock patterns, for cloth and other background elements.
Art Medium : Created digitally.
No of Cards :78
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Rider-Waite clone
Mystical Tarot Deck
Artist :
Designer :Dr. Seema Midha
Text :Dr. Seema Midha
Date : 2007
Publisher : B. Jan Publishers (p) Ltd
Country : India
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 128
Width : 85
Shape :
Description : This is an unauthorised tarot based on the 'Light and Shadows' deck by Michael Goepferd, 1995 and 1997. It is not a slavish copy, but parts of the images from the Goepferd are coloured digitally and collaged with pieces of the Rider Waite and the whole merged together. Renumbered with Roman numerals. Cards Justice and Strength have their order switched. Supplied in a box with a book.
Art Medium : Collaged from two tarot decks.
No of Cards :78
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Full House
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Promotional gift, possibly for Tencent Inc, one of the Major Hong Kong Internet providers.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program, possibly using vector graphics drawing program.
No of Cards :22
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IHS Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2003
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : A fantasy art compilation, drawn from the work of various well known artists, organised into a tarot. The choice of images for the Majors and Court cards are appropriate, but this breaks down with the pip cards where it seems no coherent system has been applied to the choice of images.
Art Medium : For the most part created using a computer graphics program. Some may be based on drawings or paintings.
No of Cards :22
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Fool 22
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Fantasy :1
Iris Lam Tarot
Artist : Iris Lam
Designer :
Text :Iris Lam
Date : 2006
Publisher :
Country : China (Hong Kong)
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : In Hong Kong Iris Lam is a well known fortune teller. At least two tarot decks have been issued under her imprimature. Supplied in a slip case with a book.
Art Medium : Probably acrylic paintings modified in computer graphics program, but may have been created entirely digitally.
No of Cards :78
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TigerKimm Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004 ?
Publisher :
Country : China (Hong Kong)
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 113
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : Published in Hong Kong. The imagery in the Minors draw on the Rider/Waite Pamela Colman Smith designs.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured for the most part with watercolour. Some with coloured pencil, possibly watercolour pencils.
No of Cards :78
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Elle Tarot
Artist : Wun Wu
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2002
Publisher : Elle
Country : China (Hong Kong)
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 87
Width : 56
Shape :
Description : Promotional tarot for Elle magazine Hong Kong.
Art Medium : Watercolours or possibly gouache.
No of Cards :78
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Lsspgladys
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Witchyland
Country : China (Hong Kong)
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 69
Width : 40
Shape :
Description : This is a promotional deck printed on three sheets of thick card for people to cut out. The cards are not scored or perforated. It seems to originate from Hong Kong from a shop called Witchyland - Witchy Wit for Body Mind Soul. Gladys, it would appear, is the owner of the shop. She does readings with standard tarot cards (Rider-Waite, Morgan Greer, etc) and runs some tarot courses. These promo cards are in Western cartoon style, with some rather original takes on the card imagery.
Art Medium : Pen drawings with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Mr Lee Buddhism Tarot
Artist : Li Ju Ming
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2003
Publisher :
Country : China (Hong Kong)
No of cards : 22
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Height : 140
Width : 67
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a large box with a booklet.
Art Medium : Photographs of Buddhist sculptures.
No of Cards :22
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Mythological
Photography
Iris Lam Tarot
Artist : Iris Lam
Designer :
Text :Iris Lam
Date : 2002
Publisher :
Country : China (Hong Kong)
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : In Hong Kong Iris Lam is a well known fortune teller. At least two tarot decks have been issued under her imprimature. Supplied in a slip case with a book.
Art Medium : Pen or pencil drawn outlines probably coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Children's
Tarot Final Destination
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : China (Hong Kong)
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Final Destination is a PC game set in the far future. The player is set the task of investigating an explosion that devastated a far off planet, and then, hopefully, restoring it and its inhabitants back to life. The imagery of the tarot deck issued as a promo for the game is thus futuristic.
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No of Cards :22
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Axis Powers Hetalia Major Arcana (APH Tarot)
Artist : Kai, Tei Rin Maru and Kavie
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Doujinshi deck created by three artists - Kai, Tei Rin Maru and Kavie. There are a growing number of these decks celebrating the Axis Powers Hetalia manga. Supplied with a descriptive booklet.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Doujinshi
Lorland Chen Ttarro (sic)
Artist : Lorland Chen (or Chain) aka Chen Wei
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Chengdu Academy of Fin Arts
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 300
Height : 113
Width : 50
Shape :
Description : The artist makes the point on the back of the box ''Collected only not for fortune telling''. The artwork looks like oil painting but is actually realised entirely digitally. Lorland Chen is one of the better known of Chinese fantasy artists. He also works as a teacher in an academy of fine arts.
Art Medium : Created in Photoshop these images have a painterly style.
No of Cards :22
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Enjoy Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 24
Limited Edition :
Height : 90
Width : 55
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program, possibly using vector graphics drawing program.
No of Cards :24
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Comic Fans Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date : 2008
Publisher : Comic Fans/ Jonesky
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 132
Width : 72
Shape :
Description : Promotional deck in an unidentified 2008 issue of the Comic Fans magazine in Hong Kong.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Manga
Promo
Magazine
Children's
Furoku or gift
Carnevale Tarot
Artist : Fang Yu
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Self-published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 132
Width : 66
Shape :
Description : Photographs of people dressed with masks taken during the Carnevale in Venice. For the majors, images have been chosen to reflect the tarot archetyes. This was not extended to the minors. There are two extra unlabelled cards. This is from the same publisher/artist as the Maschera Tarot and Galaxies Tarot. The cards are laminated with the same sparkly laminate used in the other decks by this artist. In some lighting conditions when looked at face on, the sparkles somewhat interfere with viewing the image itself, but by holding them at a slight angle the sparkles disappear and the picture can be clearly seen.
Art Medium : Computer manipulated photo-collage.
No of Cards :22
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Photography
Astrology Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 24
Limited Edition :
Height : 105
Width : 61
Shape :
Description : Supplied with a booklet in a hinged solid box with magnetic catch.
Card images are made to look like a French Book of Hours, similar to the 'Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry' illuminated manuscript. The cards are associated with the twelve zodiacal signs, and as there are two cards to each sign, there are two unlabelled cards to make up the numbers.
The imagery on 12 of the cards is taken from the paintings by Peter Lawman used on the covers of Derek Parker's series the 'Sun and Moon Signs Library'.
Art Medium : Computer manipulated photo-collage.
No of Cards :24
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : Supplied with a booklet in a hinged solid box with magnetic catch.
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Silver Tarot
Artist : Sumi Keiichi
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher : Genocyber
Country : China
No of cards : 24
Limited Edition :
Height : 95
Width : 52
Shape :
Description : This tarot seems to be a showcase deck promoting the fantasy art of doujin artist Sumi Keiichi. Two extra 'Instead' cards.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :24
Extra Cards :Two extra 'Instead' cards.
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Promo
Fantasy :1
Love Spell Tarot
Artist : Fannie
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher : Entertainment News publisher Ltd
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 87
Width : 61
Shape :
Description : The artwork has been processed in some graphics filter probably to give the cards a patina of age or to look like frescos or Egyptian wall paintings. Produced in Hong Kong.
Art Medium : Pen drawn outlines coloured with watercolours, then given some all-over surface texture using a filter in a graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Egyptian
Amano Yoshitaka
Artist : Amano Yoshitaka
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2002
Publisher :
Country : Japan
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 115
Width : 64
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Pen drawings, coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :78
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Love tarot I
Artist : Addams Anna Majoeria
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1999
Publisher : Shinobu
Country : Japan
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 125
Width : 76
Shape :
Description : Addams Anna Majoeria is a well known psychic, yoga instructor and translator of English literature into Japanese.
Art Medium : Pen drawings.
No of Cards :22
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Tran Kwan Inn Tarot
Artist : Tran Kwan Inn
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 133
Width : 71
Shape :
Description : Exaggerated depictions of gay men dressed in colourful carnevale costumes, as if participlating in a 'gay pride' festival. The artist apparent works in the fashion industry and these drawings are in the style of fashion art sketches. All the characters wear wonderfully stylised spectacles.
Art Medium : Pen drawings with watercolour.
No of Cards :22
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Erotic
Self-Published
Vitas: Personal Idol Diary Tarot
Artist : Sky Lee
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2010
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : The strangely named Vitas : Personal Idol Diary Tarot seems even more weird when one realises that though produced in China it has the card titles in Greek! But that is not all for although the alphabet is Greek, these transliterate into either French or English. Is this merely a muddle or is there some subtle message here? We will probably never know. The imagery is rather good, being computer created collage, though the densely textured backgrounds fight against the foreground images and often prevent them standing out. There are some fine images here and though quite stylish the cards are immediately recognisable from their content. The cards are not numbered.
Art Medium : Computer created collage.
No of Cards :22
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Dragon Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 96
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Collaborative deck using the artwork of 24 artists, some primarily in manga style and others in fantasy art style. Supplied in a large tin box with a booklet and an illustrated book with full page illustrations of the artwork together with profiles of the artists. All the artwork incorporates dragon symbolism.
Art Medium : For the most part these are pen drawings coloured with watercolour. Some may have been worked in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Fantasy :1
One Piece the Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : One Piece is a Japanese shonen manga series on a pirate theme written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, that has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since August 4, 1997. Later it was prodcued as an anime on Japanese television. Cards are printed onto a holographic film on card. This creates starburst effects when one looks at the cards.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Manga
Ni Shui Han Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 100
Height : 130
Width : 58
Shape :
Description : 'Ni Shui Han' is a well known television drama in Taiwan and China. There are two versions of this tribute deck. This is provided in a black paper wrapper. The other, the 'Ni Shui Han Q Tarot' children's deck, is in a red paper wrapper.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :100
Price indication : B
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Collaborative
Century Collection Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2003
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 133
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : This is from the same publisher as produced the Dragon Tarot of 2004, and it uses the work of many of the same group of artists. Although there is no over-arching theme, the artwork clearly reflects the tarot imagery. Supplied in a large solid box with magnetic fastener. This has a lower drawer containing a book and a tarot bag.
Art Medium : For the most part these are pen drawings coloured with watercolour. Some may have been worked in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :78
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Dream of Female Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
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Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Strange set of 22 cards, five of which have recognisable tarot illustrations, while the remaining 17 have layouts of young womens clothing. Possibly a promo deck for a clothing company.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :22
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Promo
Chinese Classical Tarot
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : One of the Chinese 'big-box' tarots providing a showcase of fantasy art. In the Majors and Courts an attempt has clearly been made to choose artwork to reflect the tarot archetype. This has been abandoned with the pip cards.
Art Medium : Work of various artists but most using computer graphics program to originate or substatially complete the artwork.
No of Cards :78
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Egyptian Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 50
Shape :
Description : This appears to be a press-out deck, possibly given away as a gift with some issue of a magazine. There is little tarot imagery in the selection of images used on the cards.
Art Medium : Photo-collaged in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Magazine
Egyptian
Furoku or gift
F4 Tarot
Artist : Kamio Yoko
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2000
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 159
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : This is based on the most popular Japanese shoujo manga of all time 'Hana Yori Dango' by Kamio Yoko. The storyline concerns the adventures of Makino Tsukushi the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, the school of the ridiculously rich and privileged that is ruled by Flower 4 or F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families. This deck would appear to be an unofficial Chinese release based on the original manga as it reused imagery from those comic books. There would appear to be almost no tarot criteria applied in the choice of the images. Two extra title cards.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings coloured with watercolour.
No of Cards :78
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Gaudiness Tarot of Japan
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 134
Width : 61
Shape :
Description : Subtitled 'New and Vigorous Illustrators'. This appears to be a deck published in China showcasing the artwork of various manga illustrators. There is no documentation of the artists. The cards are the typical elongated chinese shape. Supplied in a large solid card box with magnetic fastening.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program, perhaps in some cases using pen drawn originals.
No of Cards :78
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Harry Potter Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 119
Width : 54
Shape :
Description : This is essentially a collectable produced for Harry Potter fans using photographs from the early films, and there seems little tarot content. Some images are printed in landscape format. The cards are printed with a standard border and titles, which is used in a number of related tarots produced by this company. The cards are packaged in a tough polythene box. This contains a booklet, which was reused with different images on the cover in other tarots issued by this company.
Art Medium : Photographs.
No of Cards :78
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Tarot Angel
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : New World Press
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 112
Width : 72
Shape :
Description : Supplied in a transparent plastic box with a large book and a small booklet. The artwork is by a small group of fantasy artists as one can recognise those that are created in the same style. It seems unlikely that the artists created the images primarily as tarot, but that these images have later been chosen by the editor of this tarot deck. The images chosen for the Court cards are appropriate, but there seems no system for the Pips. In many cases the choices for the Major Arcana are appropriate, but others are a bit distant from the idea of the tarot archetype.
Art Medium : Work of various artists. Some may be paintings but most are digitally realised.
No of Cards :78
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Fantasy :1
Tarot Music
Artist :
Designer :Onon Studio
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Chingmao Communication
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 128
Width : 72
Shape :
Description : Images from European Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque paintings. In most of the cards the background behind the foreground figures has been removed. Strangely, there is no observable connection with music.
Art Medium : Photographs of sections of artworks.
No of Cards :22
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Photography
Ni Shui Han Q Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : 'Ni Shui Han' is a well known television drama in Taiwan and China. There are two versions of this tribute deck. This children's deck is provided in a Red paper wrapper. The other, the 'Ni Shui Han Tarot', for a older adolescent audience, is in a black paper wrapper.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Children's
Self-Published
Tarot of Saint Seiya
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 129
Width : 73
Shape :
Description : Some of the images differ from those used in the Majors only version of this deck issued in 2005. The imagery in the Minors draws on the Pamela Colman Smith Minors. 'Saint Seiya' also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada and serialized in 'Weekly Shonen Jump' from 1986 to 1991, and adapted into an anime TV series by Toei Animation from 1986 to 1989.
Art Medium : Created in computer graphics software. Some may have been originally outlined in pen drawings.
No of Cards :78
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Fantasy :1
Trinity Blood Tarot
Artist : Thores Shibamoto
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 134
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : Trinity Blood is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto, originally serialised in 'The Sneaker'. Later it was adapted into a manga and anime series.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolours.
No of Cards :78
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Unidentified Magazine Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 50
Width : 30
Shape :
Description : Cut out deck from an unidentified Hong Kong magazine.
Art Medium : Watercolour paintings.
No of Cards :22
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Galaxies Tarot
Artist : Fang Yu
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 87
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : This is from the same publisher/artist as the Maschera Tarot and Carnevale Tarot. Each card bears a photograph of an astronomical object. This idea has already been explored by Kay Stopforth in her Universe cards oracle deck of 1999. The Galaxies Tarot attempts to make an entire tarot deck out of astronomical photographs. Some card images work quite well, a comet for 'The Chariot', Jupiter's complex atmospheric pattern for 'The Wheel of Fortune', but with the Minor Arcana it has obviously proven more difficult to assign a photograph of a galaxy, nebula or dust cloud to reflect any meaning associated with the card. So one just has to take delight in the beautiful images themselves. The cards are laminated with the same sparkly laminate used in the other decks by this artist. In some lighting conditions when looked at face on, the sparkles somewhat interfere with viewing the image itself, but by holding them at a slight angle the sparkles disappear and the picture can be clearly seen.
Art Medium : Astronomical photographs.
No of Cards :78
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Abstract
Self-Published
Photography
Tarot Stars
Artist : Various.
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 133
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : Compilation of comic books illustrations. The choice of images for the Majors is appropriate to the tarot archetype. Supplied in a solid box with magnetic closer, together with a large paperback book.
Art Medium : Various media.
No of Cards :78
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Book Illustration
Collaborative
Tarot Cat
Artist :
Designer :Likebulb Studio
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : A to Z Multi-media Co., Ltd.
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Published in Hong Kong. Issued with profusely illustrated paperback book. This cat tarot is not a sentimental one, here the cats have attitude.
Art Medium : Line drawings coloured in computer graphics program. The original drawings may well have been created in a computer drawing program.
No of Cards :22
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Cat
Children's
Spirit Weekly Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 25
Limited Edition :
Height : 88
Width : 62
Shape :
Description : Issued with copies of the Hong Kong 'Spirit Weekly' manga magazine. Includes three additional possibly unrelated cards. Titles in French.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with process colour.
No of Cards :25
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Manga
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Children's
Furoku or gift
Image Grandmaster of Traot (sic)
Artist : Various
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 134
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Big box tarot with a magnetic fastening. Supplied with and illustrated book. Artwork is from a number of fantasy artists. The imagery for the Majors and Court cards is appropriately chosen. The 'Page of Cups' is wrongly named the 'Knight of Cups'. The misspelling 'Traot' appears on all the cards and in the book.
Art Medium : Work of various artists, some paintings others digitally realised.
No of Cards :78
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Fantasy :1
Wizard Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date :
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 75
Shape :
Description : Reprint of the Royal tarot. The print quality is very poor.
Art Medium : The original was created by pen drawings coloured with watercolours.
No of Cards :78
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Mi-Mi Tarot
Artist : Amy Van
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 130
Width : 60
Shape :
Description : Printed on a reflective surfaced paper which gives a pearlescent effect. Amy Van uses the pen name ''Mi-Mi''. The drawing for this deck is very fine indeed with a subtle and lively line. The lines flow and glide rather than being mechanically drawn. The colours, though bright, are well chosen to be harmonised and well keyed to one another.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings, coloured possibly with gouache or in a computer graphics program.
No of Cards :22
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Self-Published
Lunatic
Artist : Evan Yi Feng
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 133
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : This deck was issued as a portfolio of large format 'cards' in Taiwan in 2005. This edition, probably unauthorised, was issued as a standard format deck with the cards being slightly cropped to fit the space. Many of the card designs were changed, but using Evan Yi Feng's artwork. Some images also were reversed. The print quality is much lower than the original edition and also some elements of the card designs are obscured by the black panel bearing the card title. Supplied in large box with magnetic catch. A booklet is also enclosed.
Art Medium : Oil paintings often using thin scraped layers to give textured areas. These have then been imported into a computer graphics program and modified with collaged elements.
No of Cards :78
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Gothic/horror
Tarot Vampire
Artist : Adam Ball
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Castle Dark
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 80
Shape :
Description : Smooth polished forms and figures.
Art Medium : Created digitally.
No of Cards :78
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Erotic
Gothic/horror
Tarot New York
Artist : Richard Kern
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : CastleDark Pty Ltd
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 112
Width : 78
Shape :
Description : Erotic photographs of naked women in a tarot deck form. No tarot connection and no connection to New York either.
Art Medium : Photographs.
No of Cards :78
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Erotic
Photography
Revelation Tarot
Artist : Rev Jahne Hope-Williams
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Australian Yoga Institute
Country : Australia
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 135
Width : 90
Shape :
Description : It is a 22 card deck made using scraperboard, an art board with a chalky white ground and a top layer of black tinted chalk. Thus one scrapes away the top layer to show a white line. It is a very expressive medium though difficult to use consistently, and almost impossible to make corrections. Here Jahne Hope-Willams has produced an astounding set of designs in this unusual medium. She uses the idea of chakras to inform her imagery.
Art Medium : Scraperboard.
No of Cards :22
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Elliot's Tarot
Artist : Lindsay Waterworth
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards :
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Lindsay Waterworth is a pagan wiccan and seems also to have some interest in the goth lifestyle, and we catch glimpses of these influences in details of the imagery. However, this deck arose out of a personal tragedy for Lindsay Waterworth. The 'Elliot' of the title was her son, who was born prematurely with a life-threatening medical condition and sadly died after eight months. He spent his whole life in hospital undergoing operations and medical procedures. Out of that terrible experience, Lindsay Waterworth has created her tarot as a kind of memorial to her son, but here we find no descent into maudlin sentiment, and instead a kind of celebration of life. There are only a very few subtle references, which one will not pick up unless one knows what Waterworth had gone through. The imagery is poignant yet never sentimental.
Art Medium : Lines in pen and then large areas filled in by brushing black ink.
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Majors
Minors
Standard
Black & White
Corners Square
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
Rider-Waite clone
Dracula Tarot
Artist : Anna Gerraty
Designer :Dr Vicky Vladic
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 88
Width : 63
Shape :
Description : Majors unnumbered. Suits are Coins, Goblets, Knives and Stakes. Courts are Countess, Count, Lady and Lord. To some extent the designs for the emblems for the Minors follow the Rider-Waite but many of these images are unique to this deck and driven by the Dracula theme.
Art Medium : Oil paintings.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : C
Majors
Minors
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Figurative
Gothic/horror
Self-Published
Emanations
Artist : Richard Moult
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2011
Publisher : Black Glyph Society mvimaedivm wordpress
Country : Australia
No of cards : 64
Limited Edition :
Height : 135
Width : 90
Shape :
Description : Set of 64 cards not associated with the traditional tarot structure. Supplied with CD of Richard Moult's music and a piece of polished black tourmaline.
Art Medium : Oil paintings with some photographs and some photocollage.
No of Cards :64
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : A
Large
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Figurative
Surreal
Magical
Gothic/horror
Granny Jones Australian Tarot Deck
Artist : Rebecca "Granny" Jones
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1994
Publisher : Kangaroo Press
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 105
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : The images present a humorous take on life. Minors do not follow the emblem sequence in the Rider-Waite.
Art Medium : Pen line drawings with coloured pencil.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : A
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Marseilles order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Millenium Tarot - The Tarot of the Four Worlds
Artist : Ziba Vilmanis-Westenberg
Designer :Mary Susan Chamberlain
Text :
Date : 1984
Publisher : Susi Chamberlain
Country : Australia
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : This must be one of the unknown treasures of modern tarot. The artist, Ziba Vilmanis-Westenberg, seems to be known only for this work. The artwork is rich in symbolic detail and very well conceived.
Art Medium : Oil paintings.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
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Price indication : A
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Fine Art
Tarot Chesta
Artist : Chester Harris
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2002
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition : 61
Height : 150
Width : 100
Shape :
Description : The Australian Chester Harris produced his Tarot Chesta in 2002. The line work was created in Lino block overprinted on a number of silk screened colour print layers, some cards having gold and silver ink screen printed. There are 78 cards plus one blank and a face card. The cards are large, measuring 100 by 150 mm, and are printed on quality archival stock. The designs are very expressive with a subtle humour and the strong bold woodcut like outlines (lino blocks) give them a solidity and strength. Chester Harris conceived the designs in 2000 while on a journey of personal exploration travelling around the North and East of Australia. These are definitely an art tarot, involving thousands of hours of work by the artist, and will be hightly valued in the years to come.
Art Medium : Lino block overprinted with silk screened colour.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :61
Price indication : A
Majors
Minors
Large
Fine Art
Self-Published
Sinister Tarot
Artist : Christos Beest (Richard Mould)
Designer :
Text :Christos Beest (Richard Mould)
Date : 2007
Publisher : ONA - Order of the Nine Angles
Country : Australia
No of cards : 21
Limited Edition : 40
Height : 140
Width : 100
Shape :
Description : The text and the pictures of the Sinister Tarot are by Christos Beest (Richard Mould) the founder of the Order of the Nine Angles. The set comes in a box with a 37 page booklet, which includes a brief description of each of the 21 Atu and information concerning the use of the Sinister Tarot.
Art Medium :
No of Cards :21
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :40
Price indication : A
Majors
Large
Corners Square
Black Borders
Figurative
Surreal
Magical
Gothic/horror
Self-Published
Classic Tarot
Artist : Nicola Soki
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2012
Publisher : CS-Booky - Jiangsu Literature and Art
Country : China
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 110
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Issued in a strong cardboard box with magnetic fastening, and includes a substantial descriptive book.
Art Medium : Oil or acrylic paintings.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Rider-Waite clone
Lorland's Tarot
Artist : Lorland Chen (or Chain) aka Chen Wei
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2007
Publisher : Self-published
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 133
Width : 55
Shape :
Description : The artwork looks like oil painting but is actually realised entirely digitally. Lorland Chen is one of the better known of Chinese fantasy artists. He also works as a teacher in an academy of fine arts. In this deck he reuses eight from the 2005 issue: Empress, Lover, Chariot, Wheel of Fortune, Hanged man, Devil, Tower and Star. The print quality is much higher in this deck than the earlier version.
Art Medium : Created in Photoshop these images have a painterly style.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Square
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Fine Art
Self-Published
Fantasy :1
Chinese Tarot
Artist : Kaipin
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2013
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 111
Width : 59
Shape :
Description : Cursive pen drawings using broad and fine lines.
Art Medium : Pen drawings, imposed on digitally created backgrounds.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Rider Waite order
Fine Art
X The Tarot
Artist : Clamp
Designer :
Text :
Date : 1999
Publisher :
Country : China
No of cards :
Limited Edition :
Height : 160
Width : 69
Shape :
Description : Unauthorised deck based on the Japanese manga(comic book series) 'X'.
Clamp, is an all-female Japanese mangaka group that formed in the mid 1980s, consisting of their leader Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona , Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi. The quality of the artwork is high and the Major Arcana and Court cards clearly reflect the tarot structure, this is less easily seen in the pips. The Majors are entitled ''The Seven Seals'' while the Minors are ''The Seven Angels''.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with watercolour, possibly reworked in a computer graphics program.
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Majors
Minors
Large
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Figurative
Manga
Collaborative
Globalight Angelic Tarot
Artist : Penny Chesney
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2000
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 500
Height : 140
Width : 95
Shape :
Description : Penny Chesney is the founder of the Globalight Experience, a spiritual therapy and New Age centre in New South Wales. The imagery incorporates birds, insects, plants and animals and is worked out within a kabbalistic system.
Art Medium : Coloured pencil.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :500
Price indication : B
Majors
Large
Corners Square
Borderless
Marseilles order
Figurative
Fairy Tarot
Artist : Pat Martian
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 1
Height : 90
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Hand made original. Most cards show the fairies relating to mushrooms. Each card signed on the reverse.
Art Medium : Pen drawings coloured with brown wash in watercolour with added glitter.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :1
Price indication : A
Majors
Corners Square
Borderless
Figurative
Angels
Jordan Clarke Tarot
Artist : Jordan Clarke
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2011
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition :
Height : 100
Width : 70
Shape :
Description : Jordan Clarke's work is characterized by a fusion of Victorian vignettes, rockabilly pin-ups, religious iconography, tattooing, 20th century circus and fairground lore, and the imagery of El Dia De Los Muertos.
Art Medium : Photo-collage.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Borderless
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Self-Published
Garden Path : An Antipodean Tarot
Artist : Melanie J Cook
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2004
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 22
Limited Edition : 78
Height : 115
Width : 65
Shape :
Description : Collaged images of animals, humans, plants in interwoven layers, with some lines of text from a poem of the artist.
Art Medium : Photocollage.
No of Cards :22
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :78
Price indication :
Majors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Figurative
Far Sight Tarot
Artist : Helen Audrey Meinicke
Designer :
Text :Helen Audrey Meinicke
Date : 2006
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 85
Limited Edition : 50
Height : 150
Width : 95
Shape :
Description : Some cards of the Majors have been renamed, thus Oddball(Fool), Machismo(Emperor), Recluse (Hermit), Twilight Zone (Hanged Man). The symbolism is complex and well thought out, incorporating various ideas from Classical and other mythologies. Meinicke also takes delight in painting animals into the images.
Art Medium : Acrylic paintings on carvas.
No of Cards :85
Extra Cards :Four alternative cards for the Majors Oddball(Fool), Machismo (Emperor), Lovers and Temperance. Three alternative cards for the five of water, Feeling Blue; the ten of water, Tranquility; and Earth Boy, Wild Thing.
Limited Edition :50
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Large
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Mythological
Animal
Self-Published
Australian Contemporary Dreamtime Tarot
Artist : Dr Keith Courtney-Peto
Designer :
Text :Daicon Courtney-Peto
Date : 1991
Publisher : Goldrope Pty. Ltd.
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 80
Shape :
Description : Based on aboriginal art forms. Cards renamed and numbered using a primitive counting device using different sized dots. For example the Tower is 'Bibaringa' and has three large dots for three fives and one small dot. The suits are Swords or Muggils, Staffs on Kundas, Cups or Coolamons and Pentacles or Wariats.
Art Medium : Pen outlines coloured with watercolours.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Black Borders
Minors with pips
Figurative
Mythological
Touchstone Tarot
Artist : Kat Black
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2008
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition : 500
Height : 100
Width : 75
Shape :
Description : Photographs of parts of Old Master paintings with collaged element to contextualise them as tarot images, for example by the addition of sword, cups etc. The images are very cleverly chosen and the Minors are made to closely follow the Rider-Waite prototype.
Art Medium : Photocollage.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :500
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Minors with emblems
Figurative
Fine Art
Rider-Waite clone
Photography
Tarot Feminine
Artist : Laurie Jeffery
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2006
Publisher : CastleDark Pty Ltd
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 112
Width : 79
Shape :
Description : Pin up photographs of naked women in early Playboy style. There is little attempt at a tarot structure, though one can see some references in the Majors. The minors seem to have no tarot structure, but use four different models for each of the suits.
Art Medium : Photographs.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : D
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
White Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Erotic
Photography
Light of the Goddess Tarot
Artist : Mafalda Serrano
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2009
Publisher : Oracle Garden Editions
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 80
Shape :
Description : Images are parts of Renaissance paintings, some slightly stretched to fit the frame of the card. Items by Durer, Da Vinci, Bosch among others.
Art Medium : Photographs.
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication :
Majors
Minors
Fool 22
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Fine Art
Book of Kaos Tarot
Artist : Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Designer :
Text :Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Date : 2004
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 80
Limited Edition :
Height : 140
Width : 94
Shape :
Description : The first version of this deck was created in 1990, and published as the Bohemian Tarot Majors and Minors. Most of the Minors remained unchanged but about half of the Majors were redrawn for this edition. Minors follow the emblematic sequence of the Rider-Waite prototype.
Art Medium : Ink applied with pen and brush.
No of Cards :80
Extra Cards :There are two 'lovers' and two 'devil' cards.
Limited Edition :
Price indication : B
Majors
Minors
Standard
Black & White
Corners Square
Black Borders
Figurative
Surreal
Magical
Erotic
Self-Published
Rider-Waite clone
Bohemian Tarot (Majors)
Artist : Geoff Day
Designer :
Text :Geoff Day
Date : 1990
Publisher : Self-Published
Country : Australia
No of cards : 27
Limited Edition : 100
Height : 200
Width : 140
Shape :
Description : This was the first version of the Book of Kaos deck. The artist Geoff Day later took on the persona of a prolific visual, sonic and textual artist-magickian organising performances in many countries of magical rituals under the name Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. This first deck included five extra cards - Blood and The Grove, with a suit of three Drug cards, Drunk, Stoned and The Trip. His imagery is always witty and informed.
Supplied in a card wallet with an explanatory leaflet. Apparently the Minors were also issued in this format in 1990.
Art Medium : Ink applied with pen and brush.
No of Cards :27
Extra Cards :5 extra cards
Limited Edition :100
Price indication : A
Majors
Large
Black & White
Corners Square
Black Borders
Marseilles order
Figurative
Surreal
Magical
Erotic
Self-Published
Simply Tarot
Artist :
Designer :
Text :
Date : 2005
Publisher : Hinkler Books Pty Ltd
Country : Australia
No of cards : 78
Limited Edition :
Height : 120
Width : 70
Shape :
Description :
Art Medium : Posed photographs modified and collaged with elements using computer graphics
No of Cards :78
Extra Cards :
Limited Edition :
Price indication : D
Majors
Minors
Standard
Corners Rounded
Other Borders
Rider Waite order
Figurative
Rider-Waite clone