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Quotes from The Master of Go — Yasunari Kawabata

1899–1972 Japan

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A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary.

The Master of Go (1951)

That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a harmony of music.

The Master of Go (1951)

Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.

The Master of Go (1951)

From the way of Go, the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation. The road to advancement in rank, which controlled the life of a player, had become a meticulous point system. One conducted the battle only to win, and there was no margin for remembering the dignity and the fragrance of Go as an art.

The Master of Go (1951)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yasunari Kawabata (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.