Paper board for a game with colourful squares in blue, pink and yellow [.1]. Includes a storage envelope [.2] painted in red with foliage designs and Japanese characters on the front. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/1/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Paper board for a game with colourful squares in blue, pink and yellow [.1]. Includes a storage envelope [.2] painted in red with foliage designs and Japanese characters on the front. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/1/2005]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain; PRM source Anna Rebecca Tylor
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1885
Date collected: By 1885
Acquisition information: Donated: 1917
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Drawn, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 479 mm, Length: max 247 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1917.53.496.1 Accession number: 1917.53.496.2
Research and responses: A letter in the Archive, Tylor correspondence C6, from Chamberlain to Tylor dated 1 April 1885, lists a series of Japanese games sent to Tylor. This includes a "Go board and 2 boxes counters". Most of the items on this list are part of the Tylor special collection [1917.53. ] but this one is not. It would seem that this is the Go board & counters originally collected by Chamberlain and sent to Tylor in April 1885.