Kavabata Jaszunari

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible …

The fusion of reality and fantasy in the minds of the old and the lonely is the central theme of these Japanese stories.