Two sets of playing cards [.3- .202]. One set has drawings of men in traditional Japanese dress surrounded by Japanese characters; the other has Japanese script. They are housed in a wooden box [.1] with a watercolour pasted to the lid [.2]. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/1/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Two sets of playing cards [.3- .202]. One set has drawings of men in traditional Japanese dress surrounded by Japanese characters; the other has Japanese script. They are housed in a wooden box [.1] with a watercolour pasted to the lid [.2]. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/1/2005]
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 Cardboard Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Printed
Dimensions: Height: max 930 mm box, Length: max 88 mm each card
Object numbers: Accession number: 1917.53.502.1 Accession number: 1917.53.502.2 Accession number: 1917.53.502.3 Accession number: 1917.53.502.4 Accession number: 1917.53.502.5 Accession number: 1917.53.502.6 Accession number: 1917.53.502.7 Accession number: 1917.53.502.8 Accession number: 1917.53.502.9 Accession number: 1917.53.502.10 Accession number: 1917.53.502.11 Accession number: 1917.53.502.12 Accession number: 1917.53.502.13 Accession number: 1917.53.502.14 Accession number: 1917.53.502.15 Accession number: 1917.53.502.16 Accession number: 1917.53.502.17 Accession number: 1917.53.502.18 Accession number: 1917.53.502.19 Accession number: 1917.53.502.20 Accession number: 1917.53.502.21 Accession number: 1917.53.502.22 Accession number: 1917.53.502.23 Accession number: 1917.53.502.24 Accession number: 1917.53.502.25 Accession number: 1917.53.502.26 Accession number: 1917.53.502.27 Accession number: 1917.53.502.28 Accession number: 1917.53.502.29 Accession number: 1917.53.502.30 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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 "Poetry cards (1 set)". The letter also gives a reference for information on Japanese games: Griffiths (or Griffins), Vol. II, and Chaplin-Ayrton, Vol. V, Pt. I, 'Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan'. [CF 30/4/2001]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.
Associated publications: Please note that the following offprint was found in one of the drawers containing card games. It is unclear what, if any, object this was originally associated with, so I have put it in a folder in the RDF in 1917.53 which is the collection that most of the card games were from. King Van Rensselaer, J. "Playing Cards from Japan" Proceedings National Museum XIII, No. 836, p. 381 - 382 [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/2/2005]

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