Maeda Nobuaki
Maeda Nobuaki (前田 陳爾 Maeda Nobuaki, 1907-1975) was a Nihon Ki-in pro, 9 dan in 1963. Maeda was a disciple of Shusai. Along with Kada Katsuji and Hashimoto Utaro, one of the great tsumego composers.
His pupils were Kudo Norio, Oeda Yusuke, Shiori Itsuzo, Nagahara Yoshiaki, and Morikawa Masao.
Maeda Nobuaki was famous for his tsume-go problems - he composed one a day for 40 years. Many collections of problems he composed have been published. A famous series of three volumes was published in 1965. Apparently Japanese publishers were experimenting at the time with using Western conventions for printing Japanese, but it didn't catch on.
Books by Maeda Nobuaki
- Life and Death Intermediate Level Problems: 7 kyu to 2 dan.
- Tsumego series Vol.1 : 10-5 kyu (前田初級詰碁: Maeda Shokyuu Tsume-go) Tokyo Sogensha, 1965, ISBN: 4488000045 (
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- Tsumego series Vol.2 : 1-5 kyu contains 210 problems (前田中級詰碁: Maeda Chuukyuu Tsume-go) Tokyo Sogensha, 1965, ISBN: 4488000053 (
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- Tsumego series Vol.3 : 1 kyu to dan-level (前田上級詰碁: Maeda Jookyuu Tsume-go) Tokyo Sogensha, 1966, ISBN: 4488000061 (
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The above tsumego collections were out of print as of May, 2006.
See also Japanese Go Books