Nintendo history

Consequently he opened up a new company named at the time Nintendo Koppai on September 23, 1889.

Marufuku initially made the cards for Russian prisoners of war during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, when the soldiers wore out the decks they had brought from Russia.

In 1907 Nintendo Koppai partnered with the Japanese company Japan Tobacco & Salt Corporation (now just Japan Tobacco) which allowed Nintendo to sell their cards in cigarette shops all across Japan.

A promotional calendar distributed by Nintendo from the Taishō era dated to 1915 was found, indicating that the company was named 'Yamauchi Nintendo', and used the Marufuku Nintendo Co. brand for its playing cards.

In 1925, however, Marufuku began exporting Hanafuda cards to Japanese communities in South America, Korea, and Australia.

Because Sekiryo's marriage to Yamauchi's daughter produced no male heirs, he planned to adopt his son-in-law Shikanojo Inaba, an artist in the company's employ and the father of his grandson Hiroshi, born in 1927.

In 1929, Fusajiro Yamauchi retired and deemed his successor to be Sekiryo Kaneda.

In 1933, Sekiryo Kaneda established the company as a general partnership titled Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.

In 1947, Sekiryo founded the distribution company Marufuku Co.

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1951: The company is renamed Nintendo Playing Card Company.

In 1952 Marufuku consolidated its factories, which had been scattered throughout Kyoto.

Nintendo achieved it by creating plastic coated playing cards in 1953.

In 1956, Hiroshi Yamauchi, grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi, visited the United States to talk with the United States Playing Card Company, the dominant playing card manufacturer there.

The company also achieved success in 1959 by producing a line of cards with the likeness of Disney characters on them.