The Game of Go: The National Game of Japan

THE GAME OF GO
Sato Tadanobu, a Samurai of the Twelfth Century, Defending Himself with a “Goban,” when Attacked by His Enemies.
From a print by Kuniyoshi.
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THE GAME OF GO
THE NATIONAL GAME OF JAPAN
BY ARTHUR SMITH 圍碁
NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY 1908
Copyright, 1908 BY ARTHUR SMITH NEW YORK
All rights reserved Published, July, 1908
This book is intended as a practical guide to the game of Go. It is especially designed to assist students of the game who have acquired a smattering of it in some way and who wish to investigate it further at their leisure.
As far as I know there is no work in the English language on the game of Go as played in Japan. There is an article on the Chinese game by Z. Volpicelli, in Vol. XXVI of the “Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.” This article I have not consulted. There is also a short description of the Japanese game in a work on “Korean Games with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan,” by Stewart Culin, but this description would be of little practical use in learning to play the game.