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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hon'inbō Shūsaku has received more than 87,139 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hon'inbō Shūsaku is the most popular go player (up from 2nd in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from Japan (up from 566th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Go Player.

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Among GO PLAYERS

Among go players, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 1 out of 2. After him are Go Seigen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 18. Before him are Alfred Brehm, Anselm Feuerbach, Adolf Eugen Fick, Ranavalona II, Elizabeth Siddal, and Tự Đức. After him are Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, John of Kronstadt, William Booth, Radama II, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Ivan Sechenov. Among people deceased in 1862, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 16. Before him are Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Fromental Halévy, Karl Nesselrode, Elizabeth Siddal, Henry Thomas Buckle, and Princess Maria Antonia Koháry. After him are Carlos Antonio López, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Simon Fraser, Jeanne Duval, Ludwig Uhland, and Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hon'inbō Shūsaku ranks 468 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Shunichi Kumai (1910), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Keizō Obuchi (1937), and Oichi (1547). After him are Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), Takeo Kurita (1889), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), and Hayato Ikeda (1899).

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Among GO PLAYERS In Japan

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

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