Rare Japanese Sugoroku game entitled ’24 Hours in a Family’s Life’. It was published with the women’s magazine Fujin Sekai (Women’s World) in the Taisho period. It shows the daily activities of a nuclear family (mother, father and one male/female child throughout the day).

It is a kind of snakes-and-ladder game and e.g. there are instructions that if one does not say ‘I’m leaving’ when one lands on the field where the children go to school, one loses one’s turn; similarly one has to go back if one forgets to say ‘Thank you for the meal’ when landing on the dinner field, etc.

Countries include: Korea, China, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, United States, Mexico, South America,India, Thailand, and Japan. This is a fine example of Taisho democracy and the liberal movement in Japan during a time that Japan was expanding, the economy was doing well, and the position of women in Japanese society was improving greatly. This would end after the Great Earthquake of 1923, the rise of nationalism in Japan and the increased power of the military during the 1930s.