Printing block, print from late Edo period

Printing block, print from late Edo period

TOKYO, Japan - Part of a printing block (above), used as a board for a "sugoroku" game (a type of snakes and ladders) in the late Edo period (1603-1867), and its print are shown in this file photo taken on March 8, 2014. The block was discovered by a sugoroku researcher in Sendai, northeastern Japan.

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