Kinran-sha Round-the-World Air Race Game
SKU: 9343Title:
Kinran-sha Round-the-World Air Race Game
Date of publication:
1927
Printed Measurement:
54.5 x 79 cm
Colour:
original
Mapmaker(s):
Round the world speed contest
The board of this cartographic game is centred on Japan and peppered with national monuments of the world (Big Ben, the Colosseum, Château de Chillon, the Pyramids, Great Wall of China); famous people (Lenin, Washington; and general stereotypes (bull fighting, baseball); Hollywood appears to be represented by Harold Lloyd, a figure in glasses and a boater being filmed while clinging to a spire.
Condition & Materials
Japanese cartographic board game, 54.5 x 79 cm, printed in colours, old folds with some wear at the fold intersections strengthened on the verso, blank verso; the Japanese game Sugoroku is similar to snakes and ladders.