Kei

Jennifer Prugh's Kei Tarot enters the record as a self-published modern deck of the maker's own vision, another of the catalog's single-maker intimates, contemporary in register and complete at seventy-eight cards. The name's Japanese resonance, kei carrying senses of respect and blessing, suits the era's minimal-modern naming, though the record leaves the intention unconfirmed. Full-structure self-published decks represent the tradition's serious amateurs in the word's root sense, makers who complete the whole apprenticeship for love, and Prugh's entry stands among the Isabel's and the Jolanda's kin: documented lightly, made completely. The modern register distinguishes it from the era's mystical mainstream, contemporary vision over inherited atmosphere. It suits collectors of the self-published complete decks, modern-aesthetic readers, and catalog browsers who understand that the tradition's depth is measured in exactly such entries. The famous decks got their notes; the complete unknowns earned theirs too.