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Jowa
    Keywords: Culture & History, People

Japanese professional. Born 1787, died 1847.

12th head of the Honinbo school, as well as the 8th Meijin godokoro.

Considered by many as the strongest tactician ever. -- Bill


Blake: Originally named Todani. Jowa was named heir to the Honinbo title in 1819 and succeeded in 1827. He is thought to have achieved his meijin title largely through politicking, because he had never played a game against any of the other three people who were seeking the title at that time: SenchiII, Inoue Genan Inseki, and Hayashi Genbi.[1] John Fairbairn quotes Honinbo Shuho from Hoen Shinpo: "If a person's art reaches the ultimate, we call him a sage. Dosaku and Jowa are the go sages par excellence."[2]

Tim Brent: Jowa did play Genan in 1815 on several occasions, when Genan was known as Hattori Rittetsu.

John F. Jowa played Genan many times over many years (and the others). Blake's comment, I'm sure, is meant to indicate that they didn't play at the appropriate grades.

YM?: I read in a book that Jowa wasn't a very good player from the start and only achieved 1 dan when he was 21. His Go skills suddenly improved a lot when one day, after losing a match, he stayed overnight in an old man's house deep in the forest on his way home. This old man gave him a four-handicap (his master only gave him 3 handicap). Not to be rude Jowa accepted it. In the end, he was shocked to see that all his stones had been captured. Well, even though he suddenly woke up later and found out that this was only a dream, he reviewed the game and it was true that all his stones had been captured. After this dream he became the good player that today we all know him to have been. This source is taken from: [ext] http://www.psc-a.org/sgf/story/rb/rbwqgs/rb16.htm (Visit the site if you understand Chinese.)

If any one knows about this game please e-mail me at :ym_84@yahoo.co.uk


[1] According to Appreciating Famous Games by Shuzo Ohira 9p.
[2] [ext] http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/history/jowa.html



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