Japanese Ephemera

JPC 731JPC 731

Japanese sugoruku titled Panorama map of capture Hankow (three‐color print). Advance game of Army-Navy-Air Force (color), dated 1938. Size 58x38cm. M

Price: $600.00

JPC 730

Japanese sugoroku titled Hard fighting of Hero and Mighty man. Produced in 1929 and illustrated by Ioe Saito. Shows amongst other things the Battle of Pyongyang in the first Sino-Japanese War. Also shows Russo-Japanese War.Published by Hakubunkan. Size 79x55cm. M

Price: $600.00

JPC 730Note: Ioe Saito Illustrator. Born in Chiba Prefecture. Graduate in Western Painting Department at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, the present Tokyo University of the Arts. The cover of the first issue of Shonen kurabu [Boys' club] magazine was drawn by Saito in 1914, and since then, he subsequently created covers, frontispieces and illustrations for the magazine. He established reputation as an illustrator with solid design skills. He also provided illustrations for Koroku Sato’s A gyokuhai ni hana ukete [Ah! Flowers in a jade cup] and Shonen sanka [Anthem of youth], Jiro Osaragi’s Sangakuto kidan [The strange story of the Montagnards] and Hanamaru Kotorimaru [Hanamaru and Kotorimaru], and Eiji Yoshikawa’s Shinshu tenmakyo [Heavenly horse in the divine land].

JPC358JPC358

WWII Japanese vintage board game sugoroku, commemorating the annivesary of the Imperial era. National Foundation picture scroll sugoroku. Published by Shufu no Tomo. Size: 53 x 77cm. M

Price: $700.00

JPC 729

1926 war theme sugorku. Published by Seishinsha, it shows the first Sino-Japanese War, the battle of Tsushima and the fall of Tsingtao. Sie 55x40cm. M

Price: $600.00

JPC 709JPC 709

American propaganda leaflet dropped over Japanese-held islands during WW2. Size 8x6 inches. M

Price: $200.00

JPC 707

1926 Japanese Sugoroku titled Japan Great War. Size 55x40cm. Published by Seishinsha, it shows the first war with China, the Battle of Tsushima and the fall of Tsingtao. M

Price: $650.00

JPC 706JPC 706

1915 Japanese Sugoroku titled World Wide War. Size 54x39cm. Published by Shin Aichi Newspaper. Faint staining across top and bottom, small tears. It deals with the war against Germany and Micronesia. M

Price: $750.00

JPC 705

1913 Japanese Sugoroku titled Taisho Boys. Illustrator: Ota Saburo. Size 78x54cm. Published by Hakubunkan. Repairs on reverse. M

Price: $600.00

JPC 697

Japanese famous woman sugoroku, illustrated by Sasaki Rinpu (1884-1933, he was active as an illustrator and painter in the Taisho period to the Meiji period). Center top is General Nogi and Mrs. Nogi. Publisher: Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. Size 55x80cm. M

Price: $700.00

JPC 696New proposal marriage sugoroku. Illustrator: Kiritani (Kirigaya) Senrin. Size: 78 x 55.5 cm. 1911. Publisher: Doubunkan. M

Price: $600.00

Note: Kiritani (Kirigaya) Senrin (1876/77-1932). Sources: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists: Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, Lacquer, Laurance P. Roberts, Weatherhill, 1976, p. 80; Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture, Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, University of Hawaii Press, 2000, p. 203 and as footnoted. Born Fukami Chōnosuke in 1877 in Niigata prefecture, he was adopted by the Kiriya family at the age of 24. Starting around 1897, he studied under the Japanese-style (nihonga) artists Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905) until his death, and afterward with Hashimoto Gahō (1835-1908). Senrin also attended the Tokyo Art School extension course in Japanese painting, graduating in 1907. Senrin was an authority on Buddhist paintings and made copies of Buddhist paintings in Kyoto and Nara, as well as traveling in India from 1911 to 1913 and then again in 1917 to study the ancient Buddhist wall paintings in the Ajanta Caves. While he was most well-known for his own Buddhist paintings, he also designed kuchi-e for the novel "Ōishi Yoshio"1 by Tsukahara Jūshi-en (1848-1917), published by Ryūbunkan in 1906; illustrated for the "Kyoto hinode shimbun"2, and contributed six designs to the 1924 woodblock print series Taishō shinkasai mokuhangashū (Collection of Woodblock Prints of the Taishō Earthquake).

JPC 695

Good friends sugoroku. Published by Shougakkan in 1940. Size 79x54cm. Shows 3- Saving, 4- Comfort bag, 5- Dedication, 7- Economy. There is graffiti at No.3, 7, 11, 12. Slight tear. M

Price: $600.00

JPC 694

Childhood Moral training sugoroku. Illustrator: Nawa Einen (he was Ukiyo-e artist in the Meiji era and painted the First China Japan war nishikie in the Meiji 20's). Published by Hakununkan. Size 54x39cm. M

Price: $600.00

JPC 693

This woodblock print shows the triumphal return of 16th infantry regiment from the first China Japan War. Printed in 1896 by Isshindou. Slight damage. M

Price: $320.00

JPC 690JPC 690

Military board game, early 20th century. Appears to be complete but no instructions. Bottom of box has separated but in place due to gravity. Easily repaired. m

Price: $200.00

JPC 688JPC 688

World War 2 board game (Shogi) complete. m

Price: $200.00

JPC 682JPC 682JPC 682

Early 1877 sugoroku titled SEINAN BODO SENSO. It is the story of the Satsuma Rebellion and the only sugoroku I have ever seen on this topic. Size: 14 X 22 inches with 33 frames, each with a woodblock print illustration. M

Price: $800.00

JPC 660JPC 660

Rare Charles Lindbergh sugoroku, titled TAIHEI O ODAN HIKO KYOSO BAN with map design and Charles Lindbergh in America. After the Spirit of St. Louis flight, Lindbergh would later go on to do a survey flight coming to Japan where he was very popular. This game was published in January 1928, shortly after his historic Paris flight. On the reverse is another game titled SHIRO ZEIMEI ICHIBAN NORI SUGOROKU. Great artwork and detail of a castle siege. Game measures 21 X 31.5 inches. Great condition and the first example of Lindbergh in a Japanese board game I have seen.

Price: $700.00