March 15, 2018

EDO - Honjo-Aioi district

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2013/08/honjo-and-motomachi.html

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Honjo-Aioicho  本所相生町 Honjo-Aioi district
From the 1st to the 5th sub-district.
In the year 1688, there was the estate of the family of 本因坊 Honin-bo.
Honinbo Sansa 本因坊算砂 1612-1623

The house of Honinbo was one of the Four houses in the Edo Period in Japan.

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During the Edo period the Honinbo (本因坊, Hon'inbō) was the head of the Honinbo school (originally founded by Honinbo Sansa). Of the four traditional go schools, the Honinbo was the most prestigious and successful one. The last hereditary[1] Honinbo, Shusai, gave (or [ext] sold) his title to the Nihon Ki-in so as to turn it into a tournament title. This is a list of the historic Honinbos, including the heirs who did not succeed to the Head of the House. (Heirs will not have a number before their use name.)
- List of all the family members in generations.
- 1st Honinbo Tournament
The Honinbo title is the oldest Go tournament in the world and in some ways still the most prestigious in Japan,
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Honinbo Shusaku 本因坊秀策 Hon'inbō Shūsaku
Yasuda Eisai, Kuwahara Shusaku, Invincible Shusaku, born as Kuwabara Torajiro (桑原虎次郎)
(June 6, 1829 – September 3, 1862)

was a Japanese professional Go player from the 19th century.
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Hon'inbō Shūwa 本因坊秀和 Honinbo Shuwa (1820–1873)
a Japanese professional Go player, and also the fourteenth head of the Hon'inbō house from 1847 to 1873.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

The teaching of this school of go included:
To improve one's skills as one gets old and studies with its opponents, like a good couple which gets old together.
aioi was written 相老い to get old together.
相生 - to develop skills together


The haiku poet Kobayashi Issa lived in Aioi-Cho for some time.
This is called his 相生町時代 Aioi period.
. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 . (1763 - 1828)


Here is also

Kanda Aioichō 神田相生町 Kanda Aioicho

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