EAN: 9784065344743
ISBN: 9784065344743
Year of publication: 2025
Publisher: Kodansha
Number of pages: 79
Language: Japanese
Country of origin: Japan
Chiikawa Tarot Cards Book - Includes 22 original cards (ちいかわタロット) is a Chiikawa tarot deck with 22 press-out cards and its own guide to reading them.
Nagano's characters star in the twenty-two major arcana, which press out of the book along a perforated line. The volume explains the meaning of each card one by one and shows with illustrations how to lay out a spread, which makes it approachable even for someone who has never touched tarot. It suggests consulting past, present and future across four areas —love, money, personal relationships and work or study— and sets out three rules before you begin: do it calmly and with full attention, do not frame the question negatively, and let some time pass before asking the same thing again.
Chiikawa (ちいかわ), also known as Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsu (なんか小さくてかわいいやつ), is Nagano's series, published on Twitter/X since January 2020, collected in volumes by Kodansha and adapted into an anime by Doga Kobo in 2022.
Recommended level: Elementary to intermediate (JLPT N4–N3). The explanations are short and written for someone approaching tarot for the first time, though they bring in the vocabulary of fortune-telling.
Original Japanese version, without furigana.