. Chess and playing cards. panese picture The board has 8 by 8 squares,each of which is divided into twoparts by a diagonal line (). In the games now cur-rent in Japan there is a triangle at the top of the board two squareswide, with its apex resting upon the middle of the upper side. Six-teen men {musashi, soldiers) are arranged at the sixteen points ofintersection at the sides of the squarewith the Taisho, or General, in the cen-ter. Two play, the General strivingto capture the Soldiers, and the lat-ter to block him. The board and men appear to be anexpression of the same
. Chess and playing cards. panese picture The board has 8 by 8 squares,each of which is divided into twoparts by a diagonal line (). In the games now cur-rent in Japan there is a triangle at the top of the board two squareswide, with its apex resting upon the middle of the upper side. Six-teen men {musashi, soldiers) are arranged at the sixteen points ofintersection at the sides of the squarewith the Taisho, or General, in the cen-ter. Two play, the General strivingto capture the Soldiers, and the lat-ter to block him. The board and men appear to be anexpression of the same cosmieal ideasas are found in the game of Nyout, therebeing four men associated with eachside of the square. The traditions ofthe game still more closely identify itwith the Korean Nyout. A Chinese form of the game is fig-ured and described by Dr. Karl Himly4under the name of SJuq) luk Icon tseungJewan, or The Sixteen Pursue theCommander (fig. 17(.)). The board, he says, is seen in thestreets, where the players—laborers,. Fig. 179. SHAP LUK KON TSEUNG KWAN. China. After Hnnlv. i . Korscheld, Das Go-Spiel, Mittheilungen d. dentschen Gesellschaft fiir Volkerknnde Ostasiens, III, pp. No. 7090, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. Cat. No. L7832, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. ?Anmerk. in Beziehnng auf das Schach- u. andere Brettspiele, Zeitsckrift niorgenlaiidischen Gesellschaft, XLI, p. 469. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 875 children, etc.—scratch it on the ground and use potsherds, etc., forpieces. The triangle bears the somewhat irreverent name of matt teh(privy). A variant of this game is figured by Hyde1 (fig. 180), played upon aboard with 5 by 9 rows, with twenty-eight pieces, one of which, the - tseung facet n, or Commander, is placed in thecenter. The name he has transcribed in Chi-nese characters as yeung Ink 82? Icon tseung Jcwan.
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