Kitani dojo

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The Kitani Dojo was a celebrated go training school established and organized by Kitani Minoru and domestically run by his wife, Kitani Miharu. It was formed in modern day Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1937, then moved to Yotsuya, Tokyo, where it closed in 1974. The dojo is notable for producing a significant number of top professionals that would dominate and/or influence the Japanese and Korean go scenes for over four decades - from the mid 1950s through the late 1990s. Some of these professionals included: Cho Nam-ch'eol, Otake Hideo, Kim In, Ishida Yoshio, Kato Masao, Takemiya Masaki, Kobayashi Koichi and Cho Chikun.


Pupils
(as given by the 1996 Kido Yearbook)
(Left column) a listing of Kitani's pupils in the 1996 Kido Yearbook apparently orders them by rank, then seniority. (Right column) alphabetical ordering.
Kido Ordering
(by rank, then seniority)
Alphabetical Ordering
Iwata Tatsuaki (aka Iwata Masao) Asano Hideaki
Cho Nam-ch'eol Ashiba Katsumi
Tsuchida Masamitsu Cho Chikun
Ohira Shuzo Cho Nam-ch'eol
Kada Katsuji Cho Shoen
Tozawa Akinobu Gaku Yuzuru
Otake Hideo Ha Ch'an-seok
Ishida Yoshio Haruyama Isamu
Sato Masaharu Hidaka Toshiyuki
Kim In Hisajima Kunio
Kato Masao Honda Sachiko
Kanashima Tadashi Inoue Kunio
Takemiya Masaki Ishida Yoshio
Ishigure Ikuro Ishige Kakuo
Kamimura Kunio Ishigure Ikuro
Kobayashi Koichi Ishigure Makiko
Haruyama Isamu Ito Makoto
Hisajima Kunio Iwata Tatsuaki (aka Iwata Masao)
Sonoda Yasutaka Kada Katsuji
Miyazawa Goro Kaji Kazutame
Cho Chikun Kamimura Kunio
Kobayashi Satoru Kanashima Tadashi
Kaji Kazutame Kato Masao
Ishige Kakuo Kim In
Ha Ch'an-seok Kobayashi Chizu
Inoue Kunio Kobayashi Kenji
Ito Makoto Kobayashi Koichi
Hidaka Toshiyuki Kobayashi Reiko
Matsumoto Tokuji Kobayashi Satoru
Ozaki Harumi Koyama Hideo
Ogoshi Ichiro Matsumoto Tokuji
Honda Sachiko Miyazawa Goro
Kobayashi Reiko Nagayasu Masaki
Asano Hideaki Nakayama Shigeyuki
Kobayashi Kenji Nobuta Shigehito
Ogawa Tomoko Ogawa Tomoko
Nobuta Shigehito Ogoshi Ichiro
Nakayama Shigeyuki Ohira Shuzo
Ashiba Katsumi Otake Hideo
Gaku Yuzuru Oto Shozo
Oto Shozo Ozaki Harumi
Cho Shoen Sato Machiko
Koyama Hideo Sato Masaharu
Kobayashi Chizu Shoji Kazuko
Tsutsui Katsumi Sonoda Yasutaka
Shoji Kazuko Takemiya Masaki
Nagayasu Masaki Tozawa Akinobu
Sato Machiko Tsuchida Masamitsu
Ishigure Makiko Tsutsui Katsumi

Notes

  • The number of pupils attending the school rose to over 70 (so that there are 20 others not on the list, presumably since they didn't become pros). In practical terms the school was organized by Kitani Miharu. When the dan ranks of Kitani's students totaled 100 and 200 there were big parties. Ultimately, the total exceeded 300.

Bob McGuigan: It seems noteworthy that there are several Korean names in the list. Also worth mention is the fact that visiting Western go players were often welcomed warmly to the dojo and could get teaching games from professionals or stronger inseis.


Kitani dojo last edited by 185.220.101.28 on June 18, 2018 - 11:56
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