Identifier: narrativeofexped05perr (find matches)
Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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n second square, second row, right side of the board, Kakulco, (The horn,) on second square, second row, left side of the board. Eo-hei, (The soldiery,) on all the nine squares of the third row. The moves and powers of the pieces are as below, only noting, that in capturing, thereis no deviation from them, as with us, in the case of pawns. Oho-shio moves and takes on one square in any direction. Kin-shio^ as the Oho-shio, except that he cannot move diagonally backward. Neither of the above are ever reversed or acquire different powers; but all the piecesbelow may be reversed, (at the option of the player,) when they move to or from any square,in any of the adversarys three first rows, and thereby they acquire different powers, aswell as different names. Gin-shio moves and takes as the Oho-shio, except that he cannot move directly on eitherside, or directly backward. When reversed, or turned over, he becomes a Gin-.Vari-Kin,and acquires all the powers (and those alone) of the Kin-shio,
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1. Oho-shio, (King,) centre square, first row. 2. Kin-shio, (Gold, or cliief councillor,) upon first row, and on either side of OJio-sJdo. 3. Gin-shio, (Silver, or sub-councillor,) upon first row, and one on each square, next outsideKin-shio. 4. Kiema, (Flying horse,) upon first row, and one ou each square, next outside Gin-shv). 5. Kioshift, (Fragrant chariot,) one upon each comer square, first row.G. TlisUa, (Flying chariot,) on second square, second row, on right side of the hoard. 7. Kahihi, (The horn,) on second square, se- cond row, left side of the hoard. 8. Uo-hd, (Tlie soldieiy,) on all the nine squares of the tlyrd row. GAMES OF THE JAPANESE. 533 pieces, marked by three different colors, blue, red, and wbite, to indicatethe different suits, and also by lines and dots to signify the value of thepiece. The games played with these are, as with our cards, numerous, andare generally played for money. The Japanese shuffle and cut them pre-cisely as is done with us, sometimes by li

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