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Go History
    Keywords: Culture & History, People

DaveSigaty: Until now the best place for Go History (at least the history in Japan) has been Andrew Grant's pages. These are no longer up (see [1] below) so it seems necessary for the SL community to produce a "Do It Yourself" version of Go History.

I have taken the Names in Go lists plus a few other items (so far) and created "time lines" by country. I have ordered people based on their birthdays. Please add your events and expand on those listed below as you see fit.

  • China [2]
  • Japan [3]
  • Korea [4]
  • Elsewhere [5]

Note that John Fairbairn was gradually publishing a varied and fascinating series of [ext] historical essays and other (often historical) materials on the [ext] features page at Mindzine. The site has become inactive but it and the materials are still there. Most materials on Go history in English are about Japan. John's work is much broader, covering not only the big 3 (China, Japan, and Korea) but digressing to Tibet and Okinawa as well. Read them while they last. And if you have the opportunity, push John to find a new venue for publishing additional works as well!!

[2] Timeline China

[3] Timeline Japan

  • Sansa? 1st Honinbo and 1st Meijin Godokoro b. 1559 d. 1623 (see HikaruOmakeBackground)
  • The first Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu, appoints Sansa to new government post of Meijin Godokoro 1603
  • First castle game played 1605.
  • The Tokugawa government begins government subsidies for the four major Go houses: Honinbo, Inoue, Hayashi, Yasui in 1612. This formalizes the support of Go and begins the classical period that lasts for 250 years until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
  • Castle games become an official ceremony 1628.
  • Dosaku 4th Honinbo and 4th Meijin Godokoro b. 1645 d. 1702
  • Satsugen? 9th Honinbo and 7th Meijin Godokoro b. 1733 d. 1788
  • Retsugen? 10th Honinbo b. 1750 d. 1808
  • Hattori Inshuku (also Hattori Intetsu but this name was used by several people) b. 1761 d. 1842
  • Senchi Senkaku? O-Senchi (Great Senchi) 7th Yasui b. 1764 d. 1837
  • Hayashi Genbi b. 1778 d. 1861
  • Jowa 12th Honinbo b. 1787 d. 1847
  • Josaku 13th Honinbo and 8th Meijin Godokoro b. 1801 d. 1847
  • Ota Yuzo? b. 1807 d. 1856
  • Akaboshi Intetsu b. 1810 d. 1835
  • Shuwa 14th Honinbo b. 1820 d. 1873
  • Shusaku heir to Shuwa, died before becoming Honinbo head but called Honinbo Shusaku b. 1829 d. 1862
  • The Blood Vomiting Game 1835
  • Shuho 18th Honinbo b. 1838 d. 1886
  • Shuei? 17th and 19th Honinbo, 13th Hayashi b. 1852 d. 1907
  • Last castle games played in 1863 as deepening government crisis in Japan impacts the traditional ceremonies.
  • Tokugawa Government falls, ending the official stipends of the Go houses 1868.
  • Shusai b. 1874 d. 1940
  • The first newspaper Go column appears in Japan, 1 April 1878. Read the history of [ext] newspaper go in Japan by John Fairbairn.
  • Iwamoto Kaoru b. 1902 d. 1999
  • Hashimoto Utaro b. 1907 d. 1994
  • Kitani Minoru b. 1909 d. 1975
  • Sekiyama Riichi? b. 1909 d. 1970
  • Go Seigen (Wu Qing-yuan) b. 1914 in China; played Iwamoto Kaoru 1926; brought to Japan 1928
  • Takagawa Kaku b. 1915 d. 1986
  • Sakata Eio b. 1920
  • Fujisawa Shuko (Fujisawa Hideyuki) b. 1925
  • Kageyama b. 1926 d. 1990
  • The first game between Kitani Minoru and Go Seigen 1929
  • New Fuseki Era begins 1933
  • First Honinbo tournament is won by Sekiyama Riichi? 1941
  • Rin Kaiho (Lin Hai Feng) b. 1942
  • Otake Hideo b. 1942
  • Hane Yasumasa b. 1944
  • Ishida Yoshio b. 1948
  • Takemiya Masaki b. 1951
  • Ogawa Tomoko b. 1951
  • Kobayashi Koichi b. 1952
  • Cho Chikun b. 1956
  • Yoda Norimoto b. 1966
  • ...

[4] Timeline Korea

[5] Timeline Elsewhere


[1] Andrew Grant has written a series of articles on the history of go. You can find them at [ext] http://www.honinbo.freeserve.co.uk/.

This link seems to be broken, does anyone know what is up? I've been trying to go there for a week now... --BlueWyvern

Andrew just (05/09/01) told me that the site has been taken down because he wants to publish the contents as a book.

Some other links to Go history are at [ext] Jan van der Steen's site.

-- MortenPahle



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