The Master of Go

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JUNE 1996

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Japan in hardcover as Meijin by Shincho magazine, Tokyo, Japan, in 1951. Copyright 1951 by Yasunari Kawabata. This translation first published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1972.

The Library of Congress has cataloged
the Knopf edition as follows:
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899–1972. The master of go.
Translation of Meijin. I. Title.
PZ3.K1775MAS 3[PL832.A9] 895.6’3’4 72-2228
eISBN: 978-0-307-83364-8

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