Shuwa
Honinbo Shuwa ( 本因坊 秀和 ) (1820 - July 2, 1873) was the 14th head of the Honinbo school.
He was one of the strongest players during the golden era of Go, along with his pupil Shusaku. In 1842, after Jowa was forced to retire, Shuwa defeated Inoue Gen'an Inseki in two games, blocking the latter's hopes of becoming Meijin.
Father of Shuetsu, Shuei and Shugen.
Shuwa's pupils
- Kuwahara Shusaku
- Ishigaya Kosaku
- Koizumi Fujimatsu
- Murase Yakichi
- Tsuchiya Shuetsu (Honinbo XV and Shuwa's eldest son, brother of Shugen and Shuei)
- Tsuchiya Heijiro (Honinbo XVII, XIX and Shuwa's second son, brother of Shuetsu and Shugen)
- Tomita Shuroku
- Tsuruoka Saburosuke
- Tsuchiya Momosaburo (Honinbo XVI and Shuwa's third son, brother of Shuetsu and Shuei)
- Ozawa Mitsugoro
- Nakagawa Kamesaburo
- Yasui Santetsu
- Kato Ryuwa
- Sugiyama Senwa
- Kishimoto Saichiro
- Yoshida Hanjuro
- Takahashi Kinesaburo
- Sato Shuseki
- Kajikawa Noboru
- Katsuta Eisuke
- Ninomiya Shukai
- Yoshida Etsu
Source: 1996 Kido Yearbook
Is the link to Yasui Sanchi right? That one was ten years older than Shuwa. Could it be another with the same name?
Charles Well, no. I left that unresolved because of difficulties I had with relating the name in the Yearbook with John Fairbairn's names book. Someone else has leapt in rather overconfidently.
John Fairbairn I think you'll find it's a misprint for Sanei. But the Kido listing looks dodgy anyway. It purports to limit itself to Meiji or later players yet lists Shusaku, and gives a false impression in that Shuwa had quite a few more pupils, live-in no less, rather more reliably, but still not completely, listed in Zain Danso.
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