noun
face card; court card
In Western-style card games, refers to the king, queen, and jack.
トランプの絵札はキング、クイーン、ジャックです。
The face cards in a deck of playing cards are the king, queen, and jack.
noun
picture card (in utagaruta or iroha karuta)
In traditional Japanese karuta games, the cards that bear illustrations, as opposed to the reading cards.
百人一首では、読み札と絵札に分かれています。
In Hyakunin Isshu, the cards are divided into reading cards and picture cards.