AN EASTERN VERSION OF A FAMILIAR JUVENILE GAME: JAPANESE GIRLS PLAYING "KOTORI" (CHILD-CATCHING)

Japanese Girls Playing Game (Konkonchiki)

Japanese Girls playing a favourite Game. (New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, 01 October 1904)

[Two children wearing sailor outfits are playing with a balloon tethered to a Russian battleship, the balloon has burst revealing the head of a Russian admiral or czar and the battleship has been sunk, the Russian child, standing, pointing to the balloon, is crying, the Japanese child, sitting, is joyfully clapping]

[Two children wearing sailor outfits are playing with a balloon tethered to a Russian battleship, the balloon has burst revealing the head of a Russian admiral or czar and the battleship has been sunk, the Russian child, standing, pointing to the balloon, is crying, the Japanese child, sitting, is joyfully clapping]