Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 278
h of chess players. The Japanese chessboard consists either of a small table, on fourfeet, or a paper diagram. It is a square of nine or eighty-one squares,which are slightly oblong- in form. The pieces are placed in the squares,not on the intersections as in China. They consist of… … Fig. 171.CHESS PLAYERS. Japan. After native drawing by Boku-sen, reproduced in Korean Games. chess, the men are all of one color, and thus the same pieces serve forthe player and his adversary. Another peculiarity is that any piecetaken up may be entered by the adversary in any vacant place…
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) · Chess · Playing cards · Games
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