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Fukoumori Tarot      2007      Japan                                                   Art Medium: 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.