Comment - Girls Complete Game Collection is the January picture of an e-hon (illustrated coulour woodblock book). The double page shows three girls with Hagoita racks, playing Hanetsuki, a kind of badminton. A shuttlecock is flying in the air. Two Edo Kaku kites are flying above the scene. The red Edo Kaku shows the "Rising Sun Flag". To the right, a Kadomatsu Tree is framing the scene, hinting on playing during the New Year Season.

This leporello e-hon has 16 pages, some of them double pages. A spin-off of this e-hon book is the "Sugoroku game of Onna reishiki" (Etiquette for Little Ladies), also  published in 1896. The title of the New Year's picture is written in the red cassette upper right, adjacent to the descripton of this New Year's picture (Hiragana). TZhe let border shows the date of publication (1896-10-20) and


Series - ~


Artist - see Biography


Signature - Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延) last page;


Publisher - illegible (lower left margin)


Page Size - 11.6 x 17.5 cm    ( 4 9/16" x 6 7/8")


Condition - e-hon (coloured illustrated woodblock book) as leporello; small vertical kôban (kôban tate-e); worm holes, backed with stiff paper