Igo Daijiten

Igo Daijiten (囲碁大辞典, The Great Joseki Dictionary) is a joseki encyclopaedia containing about 20,000 diagrams, first compiled and edited by Suzuki Tamejiro and his pupils. It was published in 1933 by Shinkosha, a predecessor of Seibundo Shinkosha.

Editions:

• 1933: First edition, in three large sized volumes. Annotations are in old Japanese
  • Available at the Japanese National Diet Library Digital Collection: vol.1, vol.2, vol.3
• 1957: Revised edition. In modern Japanese.
• 1977: New edition (最新囲碁大辞典)
• 1980: Paperback edition (普及版 囲碁大辞典), same content as above in six volumes

These volumes contain many examples from practical play as well as normal "joseki" diagrams. Some examples last more than 30 moves, well into the middlegame.

Example

Situational move  

1933 eition, Vol.2, Diagram 3279

" (W)Segoe Kensaku - (B)Miyasaka Shinji. is a situational move. Normally Black is worse after ."

Derivative works

As a derivative work, later the Suzuki-Kitani Small Joseki Dictionary (定石小辞典 joseki-shojiten, 2 volumes) of 6,000 variations was published in 1965/66. Another edition by Kato Masao was published in 1987.

See also: Dictionaries page

(On the 1980 edition)
Dave: I have added some material at Igo Daijiten / Background.