Sakae Okano (7 results)

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Folding colour sugoroku, 55 x 79cm. Some light browning and spotting, paper friable with neatly repaired closed tears at folds and margins on reverse. A good copy. A New Year's sugoroku game published in 1912 by Hakubunkan as a supplement to the January issue of Sh?nen Sekai, a boys' magazine. This game features the exciting new technology of flight, with a small boy piloting an airplane in various adventures. In the sugoroku, the boy views naval and land battles and a car race from the air, experiences a wind storm and an accident, after which he then repairs his aircraft with a hammer and chisel before arriving home to applause from a crowd of onlookers who wave a multinational array of flags. In the early 1910s, aircraft were introduced to Japan for the first time as the first air strip opened in Tokorozawa. The Japanese-built aircraft started to carry out test flights. Thus, people were keenly interested in aircraft around the time.…

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.