Missing the Magician #1 otherwise all other cards present.
One of three famous majors-only, limited edition tarots by Japanese physician, Dr. Shigeki Gomi. The Buddhistic Fantasy Tarot features scenes from the life of Buddha and other key inspirational figures of Buddhism.
The Buddhistic Fantasy Tarot features scenes from the life of Buddha and other key inspirational figures of Buddhism. 22 cards in brown lidded cardboard box.
It was published in 1982 in Japan, limited 300 copies and has been out of print. The size of each card is about 4.75 inches x 3.5 inches.
Gomi's second deck 'The Buddhistic Fantasy Tarot' is a set of 22 large thick cards in a limited edition of 300 copies. These were unwieldy to shuffle for divination purposes and thus, we can assume, he primarily wished them to be viewed as artworks. This is an early example of a themed tarot deck, where the artist applies the existing tarot imagery to another iconographic system. Here he uses Buddhist statuary and other imagery as the basis for his imagery. He seems to draw on the major school of Japanese Buddhism, called Shingon, which is esoteric and iconographic. This has a complex set of thirteen Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. They are represented in his card designs  from the Fool as Shakyamuni or Gautama Buddha, through the Chariot as the Manjusri Bodhisattva (Monju) to the Maitreya Bodhisattva (Miroku) as the Judgement. He created this cards using drawings, which have been coloured, again using an airbrush, the artistic effect of which Gomi obviously admired.