Author: Kawabata Honami
Title: [Shin'an Otogi Misemono Sugoroku].
Description: Tokyo, Yonen no Tomo 1916 (Taisho 5). Colour broadside 53x78cm. Edges nibbled, some browning and a couple of small flaws but pretty good. ¶ This utopian view of a kids' paradise was the New Year gift from the magazine Yonen no Tomo. It's hard to find. This is a model for a new kind of fun palace that has a lot in common with the modern department store, which usually had fun for kids and a cafe at the top. In this case all the boring stuff - like clothes - has been stripped out and the whole emporium turned over to fun.

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