Akuro

Akuro

or "Evil Wolf" is a piece in some variants of the Japanese board game Shogi. There are typically two akuro at the beginning of the game. They can step one square orthogonally sideways or forward, or diagonally forward.

The following shogi variants have akuro:
* Dai shogi Akuro promotes to Nihongo|"Gold General"|金将|kinshō.
* Dai dai shogi Akuro does not promote.
* Maka dai dai shogi Akuro promotes to Nihongo|"Free wolf"|奔狼|honrō.
* Tai_shogi Akuro promotes to Nihongo|"Free wolf"|奔狼|honrō.
* Taikyoku shogi. Akuro promotes to Nihongo|"Venomous wolf"|毒狼|dokurō

Cultural References

In the Doctor Who episode Gridlock, a poster appears in the background with the kanji 悪狼. The characters here allude to the theme Bad Wolf, which appeared in almost all of the 2005 episodes.


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