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Captions
Marufuku Nintendo Card Co. New Year staff commemoration in front of the Fushimi Inari Shrine, in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949
Items portrayed in this file
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Nintendo
employee
shrine
inception
1949
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image/webp
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