A Large Heavy Woodblock 450 X 330 X 30 Mm Entitled Igo Kisoi Kagami Carved On One Side Concerning The

by Japanese Woodblock

$2,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Japan : “July 1886.” This handsome and large woodblock is finely carved; it is a sort of “popularity chart,” or igo banzuke 囲碁番付, of participants their names are given and their rankings for the Asian game of go. We note that one team consisted of aristocrats and the other of merchants, an interesting example of playful “class warfare.” Fine condition. A printed copy of the woodblock is included.

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