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Historic Honinbos
    Keywords: Culture & History

This is a list of the historic Honinbos, including the heirs who did not succeed to the Head of the House. (Heirs will not have a number before their use name.)

 01. Sansa     Meijin  1612-1623
 02. Sanetsu   8-Dan   1630-1658
 03. Doetsu    7-Dan   1658-1677
 04. Dosaku    Meijin  1677-1702
 (h) Doteki    7-Dan  (1684-1690)
 (h) Sakugen   7-Dan  (1692-1699)
 05. Dochi     Meijin  1702-1727
 06. Chihaku   6-Dan   1727-1733
 07. Shuhaku   6-Dan   1733-1741
 08. Hakugen   6-Dan   1741-1754
 09. Satsugen  Meijin  1754-1788
 10. Retsugen  8-Dan   1788-1808
 11. Genjo     8-Dan   1808-1827
 12. Jowa      Meijin  1827-1839
 13. Josaku    7-Dan   1839-1847
 14. Shuwa     8-Dan   1847-1873
 (h) Shusaku   7-Dan  (1848-1862)
 15. Shuetsu   6-Dan   1873-1879
 16. Shugen    4-Dan   1879-1884
 17. Shuei     7-Dan   1884-1886
 18. Shuho     8-Dan   1886
 19. Shuei     Meijin  1887-1907
 20. Shugen    6-Dan   1907-1914
 21. Shusai    Meijin  1914-1940

Note: The 17th and 19th Honinbo are the same person. Also from 1864-1884 Shuei had been head of the Hayashi school.

The Nihon Ki-in has recently started numbering those players who have qualified for the Honorary Honinbo title (by winning the Honinbo title five times in a row) as a continuation of the above list, as follows:

 22. Takagawa Kaku
 23. Sakata Eio
 24. Ishida Yoshio
 25. Cho Chikun


This is a copy of the living page "Historic Honinbos" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.