Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“Playing cards and card games had originally entered Japan from the West in the 1500s, but then they'd been banned for hundreds of years when Japan's rulers followed a strict isolationist policy and basically kicked all Western influence out of the country. I think I knew this, but I'd forgotten till doing the research.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…But definitely plays on the fact that they're a gambling company. That's what I was going to say. Specifically, the character Ten at the time was a clear reference to the mythical spirit, Tengu, which was a coded reference for gambling and casinos, which were very, very, very much still illegal at the time. Why did Fusajiro see the opportunity here? Playing cards and card games had originally entered Japan from the West in the 1500s, but then they'd been banned for hundreds of years when Japan's rulers followed a strict isolationist policy and basically kicked all Western influence out of the country. I think I knew this, but I'd forgotten till doing the research. You know how they did that, the rulers of Japan for this multiple 100-year period from the 1500s to the 1800s? No.…
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