Board games
Heian shogi
Heian shogi is a board game. It is played with 2 players, from age 8 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 8+
This game’s rules aren’t on Marquoir yet: keep the ones from the box. Marquoir keeps score, times your games and records them.
About the game
Heian shōgi (平安将棋, "Heian era shogi") is a predecessor of modern shogi. Some form of the game of Chaturanga, the ancestor of both chess and shogi, reached Japan by the 9th century, if not earlier, but the earliest surviving Japanese description of the rules dates from the early 12th century (c. 1120, during the Heian period). This description does not give enough information to actually play the game, but this has not stopped people from attempting to reconstruct this early form of shogi.Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.