Board for go game. The board made from wood and rectangular in shape. It stands on four legs which have been carved. There is a grid painted onto the top of the board for the game, the underside of the board has a square carved into the centre. [AB [OPS Move] 20/7/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Board for go game. The board made from wood and rectangular in shape. It stands on four legs which have been carved. There is a grid painted onto the top of the board for the game, the underside of the board has a square carved into the centre. [AB [OPS Move] 20/7/2016]
Long description: Board for go game made from wood. The board is on four carved feet. The top of the board has been scored with squares, painted in red pigment. [FC 02/09/2010]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain; PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1885?, uncertain
Date collected: ?1885
Acquisition information: Donated: 1910
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Inscribed, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width: max 416 mm, Height: max 201 mm, Length: max 457 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1910.42.17.1
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.
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]

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