Yamauchi's museum opening in Kyoto

Former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi is using state-of-the-art technology to bring life to a part of Kyoto's history. The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Project Foundation, which is headed by Yamauchi, announced today that its Shigureden Museum will open on January 27. The two-story museum will be paved with 70 45-inch LCD panels that display Ogura Hyakunin Issu poem cards. The poems are used in a traditional card game, in which the host reads the first half of a poem and players must find the card with the second half. Since Nintendo started out as a company that made playing cards, Yamauchi has said the museum is a way for him to return to his roots.