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Ranka
    Keywords: Culture & History, Book

The word ranka is a Japanese literary name for Go. It means "rotted axe handle", and derives from one of the oldest fables about the game, of a woodsman who lost track of time watching a game. It was so long that his axe handle rotted away.

There is a poem by Meng Chiao encapsulating this.


Ranka is a yearbook about amateur Go in the world, published by the IGF. The current editor is John Power. It contains reports on the WAGC and other amateur events, as well as international news and reference information.



This is a copy of the living page "Ranka" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2003 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.