Games in Art: The Earth Spider Creating Monsters (1843) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi [Go/Weiqi/Baduk]

Recommended reads:
Melinda Takeuchi, 'Kuniyoshi's "Minamoto Raikō" and "the Earth Spider": Demons and Protest in Late Tokugawa Japan', Ars Orientalis
Vol. 17 (1987), pp. 5-38;
Katsuya Hirano, The Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2013);
Nobuyoshi Hamada, Manga: The Pre-History of Japanese Comics (PIE Books, 2013);
Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History (W. W. Norton & Co., 2022)
Twitter: @canastapiece

[@ReesoomPal]

Great video as always! This is such a funny coincidence because I've been casually dipping my toes into Kuniyoshi's work for the last couple of weeks and this just adds to it!

[@paperweight57]

Wonderful job! Love the format

[@gamespeopleplay5678]

Thank you. I'm steadily improving with each video. This was my first time grappling with animation in Adobe After Effects and I definitely want to try something similar for future videos. There's a surprising number of games in art, so deciding on one is always difficult. 🎲

[@paperweight57]

@@gamespeopleplay5678 Your audio quality has also improved since the Backgammon video.

[@V25021]

Thank you for this video! Please do more videos on the history or mythology of Go if possible, it's geat!

[@gamespeopleplay5678]

Glad you enjoyed! I've been strapped for time recently but fully intend to do more very soon. ⚫⚪

[@entiretwix1480]

those clips are gomuku not go

[@gamespeopleplay5678]

Yup. Specified in the video.