From: Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ISHIPRESS <dot> COM>
Date: 23 jun 1999
Subject: Big big very big shogi sets

The problem is that not many people inside Japan have much interest in
these shogi variations and everything in Japan is expensive.

I know for sure that these sets were made on special order. Richard
Bozulich went to an artist who designed the sets and quoted a price to
Hodges. Hodges, who apparently was a very rich man, agreed to pay. This
took place in 1984. I assume Hodges got all the sets which were
manufactured. If the manufacturer kept a few and decided to sell in Japan,
I do not know about it. Probably Hodges would have objected had he known
because he wanted a monopoly.

However, if you do want more sets, we are the right people to contact. I do
not know but I would be willing to bet that you cannot find them for sale
in Japan.

Sam Sloan

At 06:26 PM 6/22/99 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ISHIPRESS <dot> COM> writes:
>
>    Sam> We manufactured all of George Hodges big big shogi (Tori Tori
>                                                             ---------
>    Sam> Shogi, etc.)  sets years ago.
>
>Was that the one-by-one variation? :-)
>
>But seriously, it's good to know that there is a source for these
>pieces, when George runs out of Tenjiku sets, due to the immense
>demand caused by my continual promotion of the game.
>
>Then I woke up.
>--
>Colin Paul Adams
>Preston Lancashire
>
>