Author: Kawabata Ryushi.
Title: [Shonen Gunkan Sugoroku].
Description: Tokyo,Nihon Shonen 1917 (Taisho 6) 54x78cm colour broadside. Top edge nibbled, minor signs of use. ¶ A boy's celebration of the navy; this game was the new year gift from the magazine Nihon Shonen.Kawabata's career took a curious turn during a 1913 stay in America to study western painting. Apparently he was so impressed with the Japanese art he saw in Boston he switched to being a Nihonga painter. Still, he remained being an illustrator for magazines for quite some time. As did most of the early to mid 20th century artists now revered.

Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art Asia military navy maritime children