Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a (*) Kyoto-based company to manufacture some of these things known as Hanafuda.  
Milton, Massachusetts men Thomas Crehore and Jazaniah Ford were the first people to manufacture these things in the United States, with some of the initial runs featuring an image of the seal of the United States on them.  Konrad Witz has sometimes been identified as a German master engraver of these things.  "Ned Stokes" and "The Earl of Cork" were old slang for some of these things. Examples of these things from fifteenth-century Germany often contained bells, leaves or acorns.  Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a (*) Kyoto-based company to manufacture some of these things known as Hanafuda.  These things were Nintendo's first business. A blank image of Rafi Abd Al-Latif Tilfah appeared on a popular set of these things made during the start of the Iraqi War.  For 10 points, name these things which are sold in packs by companies such as Bicycle.
Milton, Massachusetts men Thomas Crehore and Jazaniah Ford were the first people to manufacture these things in the United States, with some of the initial runs featuring an image of the seal of the United States on them.  
playing cards [accept Hanafuda cards before mentioned] 