This highly unusual set was produced by Suzuki Shuppan in honor of Nagashima's spectacular rookie season. The set contains nine photographic player cards and 36 cartoon player cards.
Five photographic cards depict Nagashima, including one in which he's standing alongside 400 game winner Masaichi Kaneda. Most of the cartoon style player cards are also renderings of Nagashima.
Nagashima's photo adorns the front of the box, and "Nagashima Player" is the title of the set. This is the only vintage karuta set we are aware of that is devoted solely to one player.
At this point, Nagashima was already well on his way to becoming Japan's all time most popular player. This set is complete with the original cigar band wrappers included. 45 player cards, 45 reading cards.
Size: Each card is 2 3/8" x 3".
Condition: Cards average Nr/Mt condition overall.
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