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"Shusai, Master of Go, twenty-first in the Honnimbo succession, died in Atami, at the Urokoya Inn, on the morning of January 18, 1940."

Yasunari Kawabata the First Line of The Master of Go

Originally Published Jan. 1, 1954

Paperback edition:

182 pages - May 28, 1996