Sugoroku of Looking Out from Ry?unkaku, Asakusa Park, November 1890, Utagawa Kunisada III; Publisher: Fukuda Kumajir?, Japanese, 37 3/8 ¡Ñ 14 11/16 in. (94.93 ¡Ñ 37.31 cm) (sheet, vertical tetraptych of horizontal ?ban), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, Sugoroku is a popular Japanese board game played similarly to 'Snakes and Ladders.' Edo-period publishers produced Sugoroku boards like this one in a variety of themes, everything from classical literature to erotica. Here, the game board is formed by a famous building, the Ry?unkaku, with players progressing from bottom to top along its windows, which are each numbered. Ry?unkaku was a twelve-story skyscraper¡XJapan¡¦s first¡Xconstructed in 1890 in Tokyo¡¦s Asakusa district. It was one of the city¡¦s most visible landmarks until it was destroyed by the Great Kant? earthquake of 1923.