"Tsumeshogi Hakubutsukan" is Strategic Puzzles Museum on the Internet. It contains lots of classic tsumeshogi masterpieces created in 19 century or before. All the problems there are available to replay on Katsuda Shogiban. I would like to introduce two masterpieces created by Kanju Ito(1719 - 1760) in that museum. The first one is #99 called "Kemuritsume" and the other is #100 called "Kotobuki" in Shogi Zukou published in 1755.
In #99, there are 39 pieces on the board at first. And almost all the pieces go away from the board as if the smoke goes away(Kemuri means smoke) and only three pieces will be left there in the end. In #100, the move length from the start to the end to solve it is in 611 moves which used to be the longest for two hundred years. I do not recommend you to try to solve them, Just enjoy replaying them. I'm sure you will be amazed at the talent of the creator.
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