Wooden Shogi Game Set Japanese Chess Table Board Review

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(More customer reviews)There much to be said about objects created from by hand and from natural materials. This entire set is created from natural wood, not plywood. The wood grains are clearly visible on the board. The board is very strong and very sturdy. There is a sliding drawer within the board that houses all the Shogi pieces and an instructional sheet.
The game pieces in the set are also made from natural wood. Some of the pieces contain natural wood grains as well as rings. The writing on the pieces appears to have been written by hand, as some pieces have discolored from someone whipping the ink away to rewrite some characters.
Unfortunately, this set does not come with anything to house the pieces captured by both players during game play. The pieces are made from scrap pieces of wood--the result is one pawn had a distorted shape. Some of the larger pieces are a little wide for the squares on the board.
As for the instructional sheet it does no more than explain the basic rules of Shogi. Matching the pieces to sheet may be confusing to those who cannot read Japanese because the writing in the manual does not match the font use on the actual game pieces--especially for rook, bishop, knight and silver general.
This set gives only the bare essentials needed to play and to learn how to play Shogi. It comes with a sheet explaining the rules, game peices, and a board with a drawer to house all the game pieces. The piece comes with two extra pawns; so the distorted piece may be discarded. Aside from minor issues (a distorted pawn, the writing on the pieces written in a different font and manner than what is written on the sheet, and the size of major pieces being too wide for the squares on the game board) this is a very nice piece. The disappointing thing about this set it that the person who wrote on pieces or made the set did not sign his or her name on the bottom-side of the Jewel (opposing) King; nor did he or she write the font he or she used on the pieces on the bottom-side of the (defending) King.


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Ready to command your army across this ancient Japanese chessboard?This Japanese variant of chess plays with the similar objective of capturing the enemy King.Pieces are conveniently stacked in sliding wooden drawers underneath. Quality Shogi pieces are made from linden wood. The kanji characters are Bantarou-goma (painted running hand script) font in Genpai-goma style (black character on head, red character on tail).

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