Author: Yoshimoto Sanpei.
Title: [Isoppu Sugoroku].
Description: Tokyo, Shogaku 1929 (Showa 4). Colour broadside 54x80cm, folded as issued. A sketch of the cat begun on the back; rumpled and a bit used with a few short marginal tears; not bad. ¶ This cartoon game of Aesop's fables was the new year gift from the fourth grade magazine in the Shogaku stable. I'd guess the small magazine covers down the left margin are the playing pieces. Yoshimoto was the cartoonist and illustrator for children maybe best known for the ubiquitous bear Korosuke.

Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games c20th Japan paper pastimes illustration modernism Asia children Aesop