Mistakes on Japanese cards are fairly rare. Mistakes on vintage Japanese cards are even more rare with only a handful of known examples. With the wild west of production from the 1930s to the 1960s, I am surprised there wasn't a ton more. And with hundreds of sets and hundreds of thousands of menko and cards being produced, this is quite the astounding feat. However, one set that got it wrong was the BC603-2: 1960 Doyusha Fusa -Type 2 Set. The front of the menko look normal, but upon turning them over it quickly becomes apparent that someone at the Doyusha factory had a bad day. They got the wrong backs...meaning the name and statistics for another wrestler accidently appear on the menko. Instead of redoing the layout and reprinting, Doyusha overlaid a fan with the wrestler's correct name. The Type 2 set is printed on grey paper stock and is the set that contains the error. The Type 1s all appear correct and were printed on tan paper stock leading me to believe that either A) the Type 1s were printed later after they were all corrected, or B) the Type 2s were printed at another factory and corrected locally. Either way, it makes for an interesting piece of Japanese menko history.
I hope every one has a great weekend and sayonara!
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