Author: Sawai Ichisaburo.
Title: [Sugoroku - Dai Toa Kyoeiken Meguri].
Description: Tokyo, Ie no Hikari 1944 (Showa 19). Colour broadside 38x53cm. Natural browning of the paper, a few pinholes, rather good. ¶ This tour of the Great East Asia Mutual Prosperity Zone was the new year gift from the magazine Ie no Hikari. Despite the obvious bite into production quality by the end of 1943 and the disappearance of Japanese possessions further east than the western side of Papua New Guinea we, or rather children, could see that Japan was still a much loved friend throughout Asia.Worldcat finds two copies, one in Australia and one in Singapore, but not the Harvard Yenching copy.

Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art progress Asia maps military