sugoroku

Updated: August 24, 2026

Other favorite amusements at Court were: gathering sweet-flag in summer and comparing the length of its roots, hawking, fan-lotteries, a kind of backgammon called sugoroku, and different forms of gambling. Football was played, a Chinese game in which the winner was he who kicked the ball highest and kept it longest from touching the ground.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era