The easy part is done

[gurdymonkey]

I went with the grid style game board top for the sugoroku box because the only one I've seen that didn't have it is the Chinese looking board in the Shoso-in collection. However, I LOVE the Shoso-in board's crescent moon motif, so I incorporated it here.

Despite carefully masking off all the lines with tape, there was a little bit of bleeding because the liquid leaf is so fine. I will go back later and clean it up with a little black paint and my really fine brush.


Now I am faced with the blank expanses of box sides.... What to put on them!



POOH! My thinnest brush does not appear to be quite thin enough - you can see where I've sanded and painted out a couple of water lines on here.  It doesn't help that the consistency of the liquid leaf is really liquid AND fast drying at the same time. I had to go back and put a second coat on the cartwheels because of it, though I do draw a mean cartwheel.

Comments

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

Damn! Any references to what the6 looked like, either pictorial or literary? Or is it like the kute-uchi hand-straps..."Michiko-sensei brought her own hnnd-straps, which were different from the usual kind," and no frelling clue what the usual kind were.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

The game pieces are small and round and each side would have a different color - that's about all I can tell from the pictorial evidence, both in Kamakura-period emaki and Edo woodcuts. White and black seem common. There's an Edo period dice shaker in "Asian Games" made out of a small section of bamboo and lacquered in black and gold. I've found of people playing sugoroku.

So yeah, I'm extrapolating like mad.

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

hmmmmm, if all lse fails, it sounds like Go pieces might work, if they're not too big