Shunkyō harimaze sugoroku (A game sheet of miscellaneous scraps: the enjoyments of spring)

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Shunkyō harimaze sugoroku ["A game sheet of miscellaneous scraps: the enjoyments of spring"]

Ichiryūsai, Hiroshige [illustrated by].

[Edo (Tōkyō): Hiranoya, ca. Bunkyū period (1860s)?].

A colour woodblock-printed sugoroku game sheet designed to resemble a folding screen (byōbu). The byōbu features decorative fans with haiku poems and illustrations of objects, activities, and events relating to spring and the New Year (sarumawashi, plums, a crane in front of a rising sun, and so on). A visitor's book is left open on the little table in front of the screen. On closer inspection, the scrawls on the page reveal the book is the game's furidashi - the starting point on which to roll the die; the numbers on the page reveal the landing points which depend on the roll of the die. A wooden brazier sits beside the table, and gifts from visitors who have come to offer their New Year's greetings are piled into a box on the right. It is unclear whether the illustrator was Hiroshige I or II, but, given the approximate date of publication, Hiroshige II seems more likely. An inventive Edo period game sheet that combines play and poetry.

One leaf, complete, mounted on washi paper. Numerous folds. A few light marks, minor wear to extremities. Paper of original print measures 73.4 x 74.3 cm.

❧ Takahashi, Junji. 1994. Nihon esugoroku shūsei. Tokyo: Kashiwa Bijutsu Shuppan.

Shunkyō harimaze sugoroku (A game sheet of miscellaneous scraps: the enjoyments of spring)
Price: $1,680.00 (USD)