. Chess and playing cards. _ i - TLI>GIT TABLETS. Lengths, 2i. 3^, and 4J inches. Cat. No. 16*3724, i, *, 64. Ta>zaku. A narrow strip of thiek cardboard. 2| by 14i inches,used for writing verses od. Japan. The usual size of the tanzdku is about 2h by 14 J inches. They arefrequently made of a thin strip of wood. The name is a Japanesetranscription of the Chine--tiin vha); •• a short list ormemoranda.; and the objectitself may be regarded as asurvival from the time whenbooks were engraved on simi-lar strips of bamboo, likeexisting Buddhist scripturesin Siam. The temple lots,mikuji
. Chess and playing cards. _ i - TLI>GIT TABLETS. Lengths, 2i. 3^, and 4J inches. Cat. No. 16*3724, i, *, 64. Ta>zaku. A narrow strip of thiek cardboard. 2| by 14i inches,used for writing verses od. Japan. The usual size of the tanzdku is about 2h by 14 J inches. They arefrequently made of a thin strip of wood. The name is a Japanesetranscription of the Chine--tiin vha); •• a short list ormemoranda.; and the objectitself may be regarded as asurvival from the time whenbooks were engraved on simi-lar strips of bamboo, likeexisting Buddhist scripturesin Siam. The temple lots,mikuji (Xo. OS . and theKorean cards No. 77 cor-respond with a bundhtanzaku, which are still rep-uted on and give namet«> certain card-pieces in theJapanese pack No. SI). The ancestry of the bookin Eastern Asia maytraced, not only to the engraved strips of bam.
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