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A Study of Masanori Ezaki's Meijin Godokoro : Focusing on the Japanese Go Culture

  • Journal of Japanese Culture
  • 2017, (74), pp.67-82
  • DOI : 10.21481/jbunka..74.201708.67
  • Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : May 31, 2017
  • Accepted : August 4, 2017
  • Published : August 31, 2017

Kim, Chung-Gyoon 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aimed to analyze Go (game) culture in modern and contemporary literature of Japan by focusing on Japanese writer Masanori Ezaki's literary works. Masanori Ezaki's Meijin Godokoro clearly reveals the different aspects of the development of Go in Japan in the late 17th century as well as features of Japanese Go culture. Meijin Godokoro is about many years of Go competitions by Sanchi of the Yasui family and Doetsu of the Honinbo family. The Go competition between Sanchi and Doetsu was a heated rivalry over the honor and power of the Yasui family and the Honinbo family. This literary work portrays not only the Go competition between two individuals, Sanchi and Doetsu, but also the group Go competitions between the two families. By analyzing such aspects, this study discovered that the development of Japanese Go culture was possible due to the competition among Go families under the Go promotion policies implemented by the Edo Bakufu.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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