Honinbo Sansa Quotes

Hon'inbō Sansa was the assumed name of Kanō Yosaburō , one of the strongest Japanese Go players of the Edo period , and founder of the house of Hon'inbō, first among the four great schools of Go in Japan. He was a Buddhist priest of the Nichiren sect, and his original dharma name was Nikkai . Wikipedia  

✵ 1559 – 13. June 1623
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“In go, when my stones are in difficulty I look for a ko to try to live—when those possibilities all fail there is nothing I can do.”

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Last words, as reported in Dictionary of Basic Tesuji by Fujisawa Shuko, trans. Steven Bretherick (Slate & Shell, 2007), Vol. IV, p. 23

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