Who remembers Menko? No? Otherwise perhaps men’uchi or 面打 ? No wonder the room stays so quiet – you would be around 300 years old if you would jump up in eureka right now. Menko is a game popular during the Edo period in Japan. Fast forward to current times we see by the little pins in front of us how traditions evolve. The Exota brand is a Dutch producer of soda and lemonades in the 1950s. The pins were very much hip and happening. A few decades further in time and kids were pulling each other’s hair out for that one particular Flippo or Tazos.
Who remembers Menko? No? Otherwise perhaps men’uchi or 面打 ? No wonder the room stays so quiet – you would be around 300 years old if you would jump up in eureka right now. Menko is a game popular during the Edo period in Japan. Fast forward to current times we see by the little pins in front of us how traditions evolve. The Exota brand is a Dutch producer of soda and lemonades in the 1950s. The pins were very much hip and happening. A few decades further in time and kids were pulling each other’s hair out for that one particular Flippo or Tazos.