Sugoroku game,1860,Hiroshige Utagawa,Japanese,Photo,bridge,smoking pipe,geishas

Title: [Sugoroku game]
Creator(s): Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1826?-1869, artist
Date Created/Published: [1860]
Summary: Japanese print showing three scenes from part of a Sugoroku game board (?): a Japanese woman and man walking near a bridge; a foreign man smoking a pipe; and Japanese women, possibly geishas, entertaining foreign men.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
One of a satirical series; reinterpretation of the popular family game sugoroku, a game similar to backgammon.
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 171; 47623a.
Earlier control number: 236.3-20.
Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
DDE: Which Hiroshige is this? KC: not clear what is the connection to Sugoroku - sent email to KB to ask Yoko for more info. No response as of 3/19/03.
Subjects:
Foreign visitors--Japan--1860.
Smoking--1860.
Entertainers--Japan--1860.
Sugoroku (Game)--1860.
Gameboards--Japanese--Color--1860.
Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1860.
Bookmark /2002700185/
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