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DaveSigaty: Until now the best place for Go History (at least the history in Japan) has been Andrew Grant's pages. These are no longer up (see [1] below) so it seems necessary for the SL community to produce a "Do It Yourself" version of Go History.

I have taken the Names in Go lists plus a few other items (so far) and created "time lines" by country. I have ordered people based on their birthdays. Please add your events and expand on those listed below as you see fit.

  • China [2]
  • Japan [3]
  • Korea [4]
  • Elsewhere [5]

[2] Timeline China

[3] Timeline Japan

  • Sansa? 1st Honinbo and 1st Meijin Godokoro b. 1559 d. 1623
  • The first Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu, appoints Sansa to new government post of Meijin Godokoro 1603
  • First castle game played 1605.
  • The Tokugawa government begins government subsidies for the four major Go houses: Honinbo, Inoue, Hayashi, Yasui in 1612. This formalizes the support of Go and begins the classical period that lasts for 250 years until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
  • Castle games become an official ceremony 1628.
  • Dosaku 4th Honinbo and 4th Meijin Godokoro b. 1645 d. 1702
  • Satsugen? 9th Honinbo and 7th Meijin Godokoro b. 1733 d. 1788
  • Retsugen? 10th Honinbo b. 1750 d. 1808
  • Senchi Senkaku? O-Senchi (Great Senchi) 7th Yasui b. 1764 d. 1837
  • Hayashi Genbi b. 1778 d. 1861
  • Jowa 12th Honinbo b. 1787 d. 1847
  • Josaku 13th Honinbo and 8th Meijin Godokoro b. 1801 d. 1847
  • Ota Yuzo? b. 1807 d. 1856
  • Akaboshi Intetsu b. 1810 d. 1835
  • Shuwa 14th Honinbo b. 1820 d. 1873
  • Shusaku heir to Shuwa, died before becoming Honinbo head but called Honinbo Shusaku b. 1829 d. 1862
  • The Blood Vomiting Game 1835
  • Shuho 18th Honinbo b. 1838 d. 1886
  • Shuei? 17th and 19th Honinbo, 13th Hayashi b. 1852 d. 1907
  • Last castle games played in 1863 as deepening government crisis in Japan impacts the traditional ceremonies.
  • Tokugawa Government falls, ending the official stipends of the Go houses 1868.
  • Shusai b. 1874 d. 1940
  • Iwamoto Kaoru b. 1902 d. 1999
  • Hashimoto Utaro b. 1907 d. 1994
  • Kitani Minoru b. 1909 d. 1975
  • Sekiyama Riichi? b. 1909 d. 1970
  • Go Seigen b. 1914
  • Takagawa Kaku b. 1915 d. 1986
  • Sakata Eio b. 1920
  • Fujisawa Shuko (Fujisawa Hideyuki) b. 1925
  • Kageyama b. 1926 d. 1990
  • The first game between Kitani Minoru and Go Seigen 1929
  • New Fuseki Era begins 1933
  • First Honinbo tournament is won by Sekiyama Riichi? 1941
  • Rin Kaiho (Lin Hai Feng) b. 1942
  • Otake Hideo? b. 1942
  • Hane Yasumasa b. 1944
  • Ishida Yoshio b. 1948
  • Takemiya Masaki b. 1951
  • Tomoko Ogawa b. 1951
  • Kobayashi Koichi b. 1952
  • Cho Chikun b. 1956
  • Yoda Norimoto b. 1966
  • ...

[4] Timeline Korea

[5] Timeline Elsewhere



[1] Andrew Grant has written a series of articles on the history of go. You can find them at [ext] http://www.honinbo.freeserve.co.uk/.

This link seems to be broken, does anyone know what is up? I've been trying to go there for a week now... --BlueWyvern

Yes, the link has been down for some weeks now. I hope it's not down permanently. You can probably see the cached pages at [ext] google, such as [ext] Grant's Introduction page, but following the links will be a big ol' pain in the "back" button. Hmmm, do you suppose it would violate copyright to give these worthy pages a home at SL, even if only temporarily? - TakeNGive (11k)

Unless you ask Andrew for his consent, I guess it would violate the copyright. --Arno

Andrew just (05/09/01) told me that the site has been taken down because he wants to publish the contents as a book. I would not suggest that a copy of the cached pages at Google is put here on SL.

Some other links to Go history are at [ext] Jan van der Steen's site.

-- MortenPahle



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