Tarot Card for Lovers

Sometimes we have to wonder about these Japanese-to-English translations. The imagery is pretty standard RWS stuff -- nothing particularly focused on the topic of love in the illustrations (although it's possible the accompanying book focused on the subject). Rather, the commonality that's unmistakeable in this deck is that the people are replaced by cats in every picture. We'd say we've seen this a thousand times before, but since the deck was published in 1981, we have to admit that it probably predates the big wave of cat tarots that seems to have begun in the 1990s (and continues through to the present day).