Author: Shimizu Taigakubo.
Title: [Denki Kyoiku Sugoroku].
Description: Tokyo, Katei no Denki 1927 (Taisho 16). Colour broadside 79x54cm. A touch browned, a pinhole in one fold; rather good. ¶ This delightful and most uncommon game was the new year gift from the magazine Household Electricity. Many of the advantages of electricity are self evident but I discovered that a decently lit house cuts down on wife beating.Taigakubo was, with Rakuten and Ippei, a founding member of the Tokyo Manga Association.

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