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The Master of Go
First English-language edition
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
Original titleMeijin (名人)
TranslatorEdward Seidensticker
LanguageJapanese
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherShincho magazine
Publication date
1951 (magazine)
1954 (novel)
Publication placeJapan
Published in English
1972 (Knopf)
Media typePrint (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN978-0-394-47541-7 (English)
OCLC832372867

The Master of Go (Japanese: 名人, Hepburn: Meijin) is a novel by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata.[1] First published in serial form in 1951, Kawabata considered it his finest work. Sharply distinct from the rest of his literary output, The Master of Go is the only one of Kawabata's novels that the author considered to be finished.[2]

  1. ^ Yasunari Kawabata's biography on the Official Website of the Nobel Prize. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993
  2. ^ Gessel, Van C. (1993). Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki and Kawabata. Kodansha Biographies. Japan: Kodansha International. p. 174. ISBN 4-7700-1652-2.

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