These 6 Serigraphs are part of a rare limited edition. There were only 100 sets made by the German Harald Gerner, and they depict Honinbo Shusai, Go Seigen and Kitani Minoru.
We partnered with Murugandi (Kim Ouleween) to import 2 sets of Serigraphs from the Netherlands, so this is a limited-time item. The material is 300g Lana-Bütten paper, each individual serigraph is 30cm by 40cm.
Tamura Yasuhisa (1874-1940), better known under his go player's name - Shusai - became a symbol of ancient Japan. Being the last appointed Meijin he was regarded as the strongest go player (Igo 囲碁 / Weiqi 围棋 / Baduk 바둑) for decades. Late in the 1920s his supremacy was tested. The two young geniuses Go Seigen and Kitani Minoru came to the top of the go world to challenge him to official title matches. To everyone's astonishment, Shusai managed a win against Go Seigen. In 1937, Shusai, already ill and seemingly exhausted, accepted his last battle, this time against Kitani Minoru. The time of allotment of 40 hours per player showed what an extraordinary match this was. When the game ended on December 4th 1938, the "invincible master" had lost his last match.
Japanese Nobel laureate writer Yasunari Kawabata wrote a novel about Shusai’s final game with Kitani Minoru, titled "Meijin". Its English title is "The Master of Go".
With the help of old photographs, Harald Germer transformed Shusai's final matches into 6 works of art. The style of the pictures is reminiscent of the Japanese woodblock print tradition with a modern touch thanks to the sensible strokes of Germer's drawing style.
There are 6 Serigraphs in each set, so your purchase is for a full collection. A numbered dust jacket is included, on which details of the prints are listed. A page of text (in German) also accompanies each set.
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