From: Jonathan Tisdall <jtisdall <at> C2I <dot> NET>
Date: 30 nov 1999
Subject: Re: Tokin and King (& address of Japanese Book Shop)

Does anyone in London know if the Japan Centre still sells shogi books, or
where they are for that matter. Didn't find them last time (though I was
too busy to try very hard).

Thanks,

jt


At 12:57 30.11.99 -0000, you wrote:
>To make up for my nonsense, a little tip for London-based shogi players or
anyone visiting
>London (particularly West London). There is a little Japanese bookshop in
the Ealing area, which
>has a small English-language section with Go and Shogi books (Art of Shogi
was there).
>Naturally there is a range of Japanese Shogi books and there are quite a
few Tsume-Shogi
>collections.
>The owner/assistant was very helpful (indicating the difficulty of each
collection, etc.) and I think
>he said the books were collections of newspaper problems. With the list of
Tsume-Shogi kanji on
>Reijer Grimbergen's site, the books are easily usable - ideal for whiling
away train journey's, etc.
>
>The shop is OCS Books, 2 Grosvenor Parade, Uxbridge Road, Ealing. An easy
way to find it is to take the tube to Ealing Common station and the shop is
on the right as you come out.
>
>Nick Bardsley
>
>