Monthly Archive: February 2019

Mahjong Fashion Collection

Welcome to a very special crossover episode! The feature of the month and Mahjong Fashion critic, Gemma, combined! If you’ve been on the tournament circuit for a while, chances are you’ve collected a t-shirt...

David Clarke’s Modern Collection

So far in this feature series we’ve seen collections of vintage mahjong sets that trend towards old style Chinese and Hong Kong. It only makes sense as specific riichi and American sets have not...

Ask Mama Jong: Elitism

Mama Jong, I want to learn riichi mahjong and lots of my friends play, but they always make excuses when I ask for a lesson. What’s up? You know what really ruins mahjong? Hint:...

My Love of One-Offs

Gregg Swain is an art enthusiast and collector of vintage mahjong sets and accessories. She is also co-author of Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game, a book of gorgeous photography and history that highlights materials, designs, boxes, and...

FFXIV: Play by Play

Hello! We haven’t done these for a while, right? I bet you started to forget that this was a riichi site amongst all the Hitler’s Blunders and mahjong collections. If you’re new to Riichi...

The Bill Price Collection

February’s feature series on collections opens with vintage tile set collector Bill Price. View some of the gorgeous antique sets in his collection!

Collector’s Month

Collecting is the acceptable face of hoarding. Most people have some small strange group of items connected by a tenuous link to each other and their owner. No part of the human experience seems...

British Mahjong

This is the last in a mini-series of articles about different mahjong rules. When me and Donnie set out to write our series, we were conscious that we could only ever scratch the surface....