Four Houses
Keywords: Culture & History
These are the main four houses (four go schools) in Japan during the Edo Period:
- Honinbo (continues as tournament title)
- Hayashi
- Inoue
- Yasui.
There were three minor houses too:
The organisation of the four houses of go in the Edo period conforms quite closely to the iemoto system that is found across the whole range of Japanese traditional arts at that time (and with some modification into the Meiji era and later).