E-Sugoroku
絵双六 / Edo period– / Layout / Games and Play
Japan's pictorial board sheets dividing one page into a story of squares. Careers and pilgrimages arranged in spiral progressions show the sugoroku sheet as ancestor of information design and game UI.
Spiral or field progression / A scene in every square / Start and goal / A narrative held on one sheet
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- round and jumping sugoroku / career sugoroku and its social vision / Meiji educational sugoroku