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Your Move/Readers Write: Honinbo Sansa's deathbed poem

"Here is an example of another kind of verse, a famous kyoka (mad poem) attributed to Sansa, the first Honinbo and founder of that line," writes Keith Arnold in response to Paul Celmer's recent query (Searching for a literary go reference 9/9 EJ). "He is said to have composed it on his deathbed, which would date it at 1623. As a demonstration, perhaps, of mu-shin, and not without a touch of grim humor, he makes his own imminent death the subject." Go narabaya ko ni mo tatete iku beki wo shinuru michi ni wa te hitotsu mo nashi If this were go I'd start a ko fight and surely live, but on the road to death there's no move left at all. "This is from an article, Some Senryu about Go,  by William Pinckard who often contributed to Go World.  I found it on the Kiseido site, but I suspect it was originally published in Go World 15 and in the second edition of the Go Almanac." (Thanks also to Peter Schumer, who also sent in this poem)