Japanese · No. 079

Sparking-Gear Karakuri

Inspired by: The karakuri automata of the Edo period and the erekiteru, the static-electricity generator that Hiraga Gennai rebuilt in 1776.

Sparking-Gear Karakuri
The inventor wanted to give it life. He gave it lightning.
Rarity
Common
Category
Monster
ATK
1100
DEF
1000
Level
3
Type
Machine
Element
Thunder
Constellations
Wisp · Hammer

The myth

A lightning-driven karakuri is a MYTHENOR creation. Edo-period automata ran on springs, weights and gears, not electricity. Yet electricity reached Japan as a curiosity in the same era. The inventor Hiraga Gennai repaired a Dutch static-electricity machine, the erekiteru, and began showing off its sparks as a wonder. In the nineteenth century Tanaka Hisashige, nicknamed Karakuri Giemon, built astonishing dolls and clocks and later founded one of the companies that became Toshiba. The card joins both worlds, gear and spark.

Why it has this power

A Common level-3 Thunder Machine with 1100 ATK and 1000 DEF: an unstable contraption, stronger than it looks. Wisp is the blue spark in the gears; Hammer, the workshop. It is a possible material to fuse with the Tanuki and create the Bunbuku Chagama kettle.

Did you know

Hiraga Gennai is also remembered for a famous marketing idea: he supposedly advised a seller to promote eel on the summer day of the ox, a custom that lasts to this day.

Connections

  • In Aiko, Dojo Apprentice's deck
  • In Master Suzu of Mount Kurama's deck

Where to get it

  • Campaign drop: Aiko, Dojo Apprentice (Archipelago of the Kami) — grade B: 14%
  • Daily Offering: 0% per pack (Common 64% per card)
  • Welcome Pack: 0.97% per pack (Common 70% per card)
  • Traveler's Pack: 0.88% per pack · 5.2% in the themed pack (Common 64% per card)
  • Bronze Reliquary: 0.86% per pack · 5.1% in the themed pack (Common 62% per card)
  • Silver Reliquary: 0.67% per pack · 4% in the themed pack (Common 49% per card)
  • Golden Reliquary: 0.46% per pack · 2.7% in the themed pack (Common 33% per card)
  • Daily Showcase: Shows up on about 0.69% of days · 150 gold
  • Craft with card dust: 40 dust
  • Crossing of Myths: Can be offered as a reward during a crossing (the card stays in the crossing deck).

Sources

  1. History — Toshiba corporate information (Hisashige Tanaka, "Karakuri Giemon") — Toshiba Corporation
  2. Edo kagaku koten sōsho 3, incl. Karakuri zui (機巧図彙, 1796) — NDL Search record — Hosokawa Hanzō Yorinao; National Diet Library