Author: Nakamura Susumu [&] Hosokibara Seiki
Title: [Shin'an Supotsu Sugoroku [&] Unmei Unsei Dokusen-ban].
Description: Tokyo, Asahi 1929 (Showa 4). Broadsheet 54x79cm, colour game on one side, game printed in blue on the other. Quite good. ¶ 1929's new year gift from Asahi is a stylish if fun-free game of sports. No smiles here, winning is a serious business. What I learn from this is that if you want to meet girls then table tennis is the game. Nowhere else are they in sight. The game on the back is outwardly much plainer but it is fun; there are a lot of pretty good drawings and cartoons by Hosokibara Seiki.

Keywords: sugoroku paper games pastimes illustration cartoons manga c20th Japan modernism graphic art sport Asia