From: "Daniel M. Toebbens" <toebbens <at> hmi <dot> de>
Date: 10 jun 2004
Subject: Re: Can't read piece names... can You help me, pls?

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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 as20728 <at> decef <dot> elf <dot> stuba <dot> sk wrote:

> I ve finaly got my dirty fingers on "real" shogi equipment (thank You once again Marc!)... unfortunatly names are writen in style i ve never seen before.
> Image is at http://www.shogi.de/images/shop/shogi_artikel_material_006.jpg
> Problem is with pawn: (i don t know what is tokin and whats fu).
> one side consist of single vertical line: |
> other side looks like (from up to down) letter T, equal sign (=) and
> hiragana HE. like this
> T
> =
> ^
> ... ok, ok! far from that, but hope You know what i mean:-)))
> Thank You very much for Your help.
>
>
> PS: do You know any webpage with more information (and images:-) about piece names and scripts (or caligraphy styles?)?

Well, I can't help you with information, but there is a huge bunch of
different shogi koma in in the web page of my favorite shop,
http://www.go-shogi.com/rando-top.htm.

As for your pieces, look at http://www.rakuten.co.jp/ryusyo/464063/464073/
in the upper left corner. I think you can see from these pieces, how the
'T=^' develops from the 'fuhyo' and the 'I' from the 'to'. Compare with
the set in the upper middle, where the caligraphy is more normal, but the
koma are arranged in the same way as in the upper left.

Also, you can have a look at this page
http://andreas-mang.de/shogi/shogikoma.html (in German), where the
pictures of the koma are from a set similar to yours.

Yours,
Daniel Toebbens

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