Katsugo Shimpyo
Katsugo Shimpyo,
John Fairbairn states: Katsugo Shinhyou (or Katsugo Shinpyou) is a book compiled by Shinozaki Kotake? and published in 1848. However, it has a preface by Kishimoto Saichiro and a publisher's logo of Kitsudo-zo. Since the scholarly Kishimoto used the pen-name Kitsudo and the quality of the problems is so high, it seems justifiable to speculate that he, as a pro, had at least a hand in putting the book together.
I have not been able to get a copy, nor have I ever seen it listed for sale, but from descriptions of it, it is in two volumes and seems to have about 520 problems.
There is a separate Katsugo Shinpen of 1878 by Yokoo Kenkichi? which has the distinction of being the first go book to get a book review in a newspaper.
Katsugo Shimpyo (活棋新評) is listed with the author as Kishimoto Saichiro (岸本左一郎). There seems to be a 2 volume version of the book listed on amazon.co.jp which were published in 1956.
筋と形〈上〉―新訂活碁新評 (1956年)
筋と形〈下〉―新訂活碁新評 (1956年)
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