CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



873 



the center of the board are in part occupied with a small raised square 

 (/rwj>a<w((wvA:oA-, '' i)lace of bowl"), leavingonehundred and twenty points 

 of intersection exposed, on which sixty white and sixty black men {batu, 

 "stones") are arranged. Two persons play alternately, letting three 

 dice fall in a bowl, which is set on the raised square in the middle, and 

 taking* oft" the board the pieces of the thrower, according to the casts.' 



Fig. 176. 



GO PLAYERS (PRIEST AND WRESTLER). 



Japan. 



After native drawing by Boku-sen, reproduced in Kcirean ' 



Fig. 177. 



.JUROKU MUSASHL 



10 by 14 inches. 

 Japan. 



Cat. No. 7090, Museum of Archteology, 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



The Japanese play a similar game upon the Go board, covering the 

 squares, and taking oft" the pieces, but without the use of dice. 

 56. Go. Japan. Board and meu.^ 



The ^ame of Go is regarded by the Japanese as having been intro- 



say that the word aud the thing are of foreign origin, very likely Chinese or Cochin- 

 Chinese." In a subsequent communication, after comparison witb the Chinese k'i, 

 a generic name for games played with pieces or men, Iscting A'i', "chess," and the 

 Cantonese chuk Ut, "to play chess," he concludes that these resemblances indicate 

 that the Malay and Javanese chuki, which is almost certainly of extraneous origin, 

 is ultimately from the Chinese. 



And later he sends the following entry in which the word is associated with a 

 Chinese form in the Amoy dialect. 



" Tjuli, 'a kind of draughts played with white and black beans' (Pijnappel, Op. 

 cit. [Maleisch-HoUandsch woordenboek 2«= drukj I, 116); probably = Chinese tioh ki 

 'to play at draughts or chess' (Douglas, Op. cit. [Diet, of the Amoy vernacular] 

 ]). 210. Compare Tjcki." 1890, G. Schlegel, Chinese loanwords in the Malay lan- 

 guage, p. 14 (Extrait du, • • • T'oungpao, Archives pour servir a 'etuede I'histoire, 

 des langues, de la geographic et de I'ethuographie de I'Asie orientale). 



" Tjeki 'a kind of Chinese hazard game' (Pijnappel, Op. cit., I, 112)? Comp. 

 Tjuki." 1890, G. Schlegel, Op. cit., p. 13. 



' It will be observed that in this game the number of points are (60 by 2) + 1 ^ one 

 hundred and twentj'-one, while on the Pa-tok board there are (60 by 6) + 1 = three 

 hundred and sixty-one squares. 



■' Cat. Nos. 93220, 93221, U.S.N.M. Deposited by the Corcoran Art Gallery, Wash- 

 ington. 



