Wooden chess piece with Japanese characters on both sides. For paper chess board see [1917.53.489 .1] and for the other chess pieces see [1917.53.489 .2 -.16] and [1917.53.489 .18

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden chess piece with Japanese characters on both sides. For paper chess board see [1917.53.489 .1] and for the other chess pieces see [1917.53.489 .2 -.16] and [1917.53.489 .18 - .42]. [JMC 13/12/2018]
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: 1885
Acquisition information: Donated: 1917
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Drawn, Process Inscribed, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 25 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1917.53.489.17
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 "Chess-board and one bag men".
Associated publications: 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]