num_pages: 189
description: Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger and more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan met the onslaught of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: The Master of Go
titlecomplete: The Master of Go
characters: Shūsai Hon'inbō
genres: Asia, Nobel Prize, Japanese Literature, Games, Go, Novels, Literature, Japan, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 4771
publisher: Vintage