A database containing 650 Sugoroku items, representing about 500 different kinds of Sugoroku game boards, dating from the Edo period to the early 1950s collected by Osamu Yoshida, President of the Tsukiji Sugoroku Museum (https://sugoroku.net/), has been made available to the public.

Tsukiji Sugoroku Museum Database: https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/search_tkjSG.php

The Art Research Center (ARC) at Ritsumeikan University has digitally archived the materials using the ARC Database System.

The 650 items are divided into the following chronological groups: 41 from the Edo period, 167 from the Meiji period, 148 from the Taisho period, 221 from the Showa period, and 73 which are undated.

Sugoroku is a part of Japanese culture and reflects the manners, customs, and values of the times. The dreams, longings, and hopes of different eras are beautifully expressed in the final, winning space, conveying the spirit of common people of each period of time.

Sugoroku consists of many pictures, letters, and spaces, and this database is the only one in the world where you can view as many as 650 sheets of Sugoroku.

Our database contains bibliographic information and explanations carefully researched by President Yoshida, making it both fun to look at and informative to read.

Each Sugoroku game board is classified in detail by title, artist, publisher, etc., and is searchable by a number of thematic categorical terms as below.

Civilization/Enlightenment 　New Year/Seasonal　 Customs/Lifestyle 　Hygiene/Health　 Buddhism/Pure Land/Religion

Promotion/Competition/Official rank/Career/Work/Occupation Women/Girls/Women's ceremony

Lessons/Learning/Right and Wrong/Education/Enlightenment 　Advertising/Unveiling/Public Relations

Warriors/Valor/Battle/War/History 　 Fairy tales/Nursery songs　 Monsters 　　Characters/Comics

Entertainment/ humorous 　　Music/Entertainment 　 Kabuki/Plays/Actors 　 Chushingura(Story of a loyal subject) 　 Sports

Famous Places/Roads/Sightseeing 　　Adventure/Space