Japanese professional player who collected a record number of big titles from 1950 to 1975. He was born on 1920-02-15. His teacher was Masubuchi Tatsuko.
Sakata Eio is author of many books in Japanese. Amongst those translated into English are "The Middle Game of Go", Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go and Killer of Go.
More has
been written about Sakata.
Sakata's pupils are Aragaki Takeshi, Sasaki Tadashi, Kato Akihiro, Kono Mitsuki, and Nakayama Kaoru.
Links
http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/age-summer-94/encounter.html
http://www.fqjr.qc.ca/go/sakata/sakata_a.html
http://www.gogameworld.com/article/gomyth.html
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/igo_e/024.htm