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Hon'inbō Shūsaku

1829 - 1862

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Shusaku (本因坊秀策, Yasuda Eisai, Kuwahara Shusaku, Invincible Shusaku, born Kuwabara Torajiro (桑原虎次郎); June 6, 1829 – September 3, 1862) was a Japanese professional Go player during the 19th century. He is known for his undefeated streak of 19 games during the annual castle games; his thirty-game match with Ota Yuzo; the eponymous Shusaku opening; and his posthumous veneration as a "Go sage". Next to his teacher, Hon'inbō Shūwa, he is considered to have been the strongest player from 1847/8 to his death in 1862. He was nicknamed Invincible Shusaku because of his castle games performance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hon'inbō Shūsaku is the 2nd most popular go player (down from 1st in 2019), the 743rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 468th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Go Player.

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Among GO PLAYERS

Among go players, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 2 out of 2. Before him are Go Seigen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 26. Before him are Prince William of Baden, Radama II, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Tự Đức, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, and Ivan Sechenov. After him are Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Maurice Joly, Robert Nobel, Franz Reuleaux, and Ignacio Zaragoza. Among people deceased in 1862, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 25. Before him are Henry Thomas Buckle, Ludwig Uhland, Jeanne Duval, Johann Nestroy, Simon Fraser, and Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria. After him are Peter Barlow, François Sudre, Ignacio Zaragoza, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 743 out of 6,245. Before him are Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Prince Morikuni (1301), and Toshio Takabayashi (1953). After him are Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), and Daisaku Ikeda (1928).

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Among GO PLAYERS In Japan

Among go players born in Japan, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 1. 

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