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Category: Stories 12 comments
1 Apr 2006 @ 18:14 by Fujiwara-no-Sai @68.164.48.27 : LOL 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:16 by Izanami @68.164.48.27 : If I may I think, maybe, Jowa and Intetsu, would be more fitting. 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:18 by Izanami @68.164.48.27 : Shall I go first? 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:20 by Fujiwara-no-Sai @68.164.48.27 : Your move, then. 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:22 by Izanami @68.164.48.27 : C6 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:30 by Fujiwara-no-Sai @68.164.48.27 : C8 I read somewhere (link) that Jowa didn't start out as such a good player (supposedly he was already 21 when he achieved 1-dan.) The story goes that one day after losing a match, he stayed overnight in an old man's house deep in the forest on his way home. The old man gave him a 4 handicap (his master only gave him 3 handicap). Not to be rude Jowa accepted it. In the end, he was shocked to see that all his stones had been captured. He woke up later and found out that this was only a dream. 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:33 by Izanami @68.164.48.27 : E6 Jowa actually was already 1-dan at age 16. 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:37 by Fujiwara-no-Sai @68.164.48.27 : E8 Anyway, the story has it that it is only after this dream that he became the good player that he's reputed to have been. 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:50 by Izanami @68.164.48.27 : F4 In the version I know, this happens as Jowa is on his way to Musashi (from Edo.) It's night, and his spirit is pretty low---something to do with his poor performance in a game he has recently played (against Nagasaka, I think.) It's dark and Jowa gets lost. Eventually he sees a light, he walks to it, hopping for some place to stay for the night, and he ends up in a cottage with a white-bearded old man. There is a go board, but Jowa (actually still called Matsunosuke at the time) is surprised to see both bowls contain white stones. They play. Then the old man shouts, "Don't you know what the score is?" Whereupon Jowa wakes up at the side of the road. 1 Apr 2006 @ 18:59 by Fujiwara-no-Sai @68.164.48.27 : H3 Hey, I know that story. It sounds a lot like a variation of “Wang the Firewood Collector”. 1 Apr 2006 @ 19:10 by Izanami @68.164.48.27 : F2 I am sure you do. The story is from Tan China, and it is also well know in Japan from the Konjaku Monogateri. 1 Apr 2006 @ 22:46 by jstarrs : Clever... ..very clever. Other entries in Stories 1 Apr 2006 @ 02:42: Evey's Choice 24 Mar 2006 @ 20:25: Breathing with the mind 20 Mar 2006 @ 01:56: Transparency, Anonymity and Pseudonymity 18 Mar 2006 @ 02:58: 10,000 people with one message 8 Mar 2006 @ 01:46: People shouldn't be afraid of their governments 22 Feb 2006 @ 21:57: I is another * 23 Jan 2006 @ 01:05: Bodhichitta 15 Nov 2005 @ 01:36: Welcome to the Nightside 12 Nov 2005 @ 00:53: The impossible will take a little while 12 Nov 2005 @ 00:34: Le poinçonneur des Lilas
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1 Apr 2006 @ 18:08, by Uncle Remus