Meijin
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Meijin
3.99 €
3.19 €
Yasunari Kawabata called Meijin, published in 1951, his best work. The book is based on a real event – the six-month “farewell game” of the great Meijin Honinbo Shusai, a master of the game of Go, against a promising young opponent.
The game is described by a journalist in whom one can recognize Kawabata himself, who actually reported on the game for the Tokyo Nichi-nichi Shimbun newspaper. He observes how the game venues change, how each subsequent move takes more and more time, how the elderly master’s health begins to fail, how youth gradually prevails over experience, and how centuries-old traditions give way to scientific calculation and pragmatism.
Translated from Japanese by Anna Slascheva, scientifically edited by Vadim Filippov, master of sports in Go, 4th dan of the Russian Go Federation.
The game is described by a journalist in whom one can recognize Kawabata himself, who actually reported on the game for the Tokyo Nichi-nichi Shimbun newspaper. He observes how the game venues change, how each subsequent move takes more and more time, how the elderly master’s health begins to fail, how youth gradually prevails over experience, and how centuries-old traditions give way to scientific calculation and pragmatism.
Translated from Japanese by Anna Slascheva, scientifically edited by Vadim Filippov, master of sports in Go, 4th dan of the Russian Go Federation.
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