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Kaneko Shiro (sold) (金子士郎)


Kaneko Shiro (金子士郎; fl. c. 1920 - 1950) was a Japanese illustrator, cartoonist, and propaganda artist active from about 1920 to 1950. Before the war he was best known for children's art and sugoroku games. During the war he got involved with propaganda imagery.
AKA: 金子士郎
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Race to the North Pole.

五六年の小學生新年號附録 / 5-6th Grade Elementary School New Years Appendix.

1925 (dated)
21 x 31 in (53.34 x 78.74 cm)
PolarRace-kanekoshiro-1925

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This is a rare 1925 (Taisho 14) / 1926 (Taisho 15) sugoroku game board and map of the Arctic / North Pole, commemorating the struggle to reach it in 1925. The board is oriented such that one player could sit on either side. As we have it oriented, the figure on the right is the Arctic explorer and polymath Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930), who made a failed dash for the North Pole in 1895. The figure on the left is Robert Edwin Peary (1856 - 1920), who after several attempts, successfully reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. (more details)

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