Hon'inbō
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Honinbo (or Hon'inbō, 本因坊) is a title used by the head of the Honinbo house or the winner of the Honinbo tournament. ==Honinbo house== The Honinbo house was a school of Go players officially founded in 1612 and discontinued in 1940.
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- Honinbo house
- Heads of the Honinbo house
- Honinbo tournament
- First Honinbo tournament
- Honinbo name
- Further Honinbo tournaments
- References
- External links
- Sources
Honinbo (or Hon'inbō, 本因坊) is a title used by the head of the Honinbo house or the winner of the Honinbo tournament. ==Honinbo house== The Honinbo house was a school of Go players officially founded in 1612 and discontinued in 1940.
The founder was the Buddhist priest Nikkai. The name Honinbo was that of the pavilion on the grounds of the Jakkoji temple in Kyoto where Nikkai lived. When the capital was moved to Tokyo, Nikkai moved along and turned "Honinbo" into a title, calling himself Honinbo Sansa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hon'inbō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.