Meijin of Meijins: The Life and Times of Honinbo Shuei

by John Fairbairn

Honinbo Shuei (1852~1907) is the go player that masters of the calibre even of Go Seigen and Takagawa Kaku professed to admire the most. Many consider him the Meijin of Meijins, and in his late years no-one could play without a handicap against him.Yet he achieved his dominance only in middle age, having several times disappeared from the mainstream go world for months on end. He lived at a time of enormous upheaval and uncertainty in the Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508843058
• ISBN13: 9781508843054
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"