"Shusai, MAster of Go, twenty-first in the Honnimbo succession, died in Atami, at the Urokoya Inn, on the morning of January 18, 1940. He was sixty-seven years old by the Oriental count." Chapter 1, p. 3

"I had long been fond of the bright, open view from Kawana. I had thought I would show it to the gloomy old man, and I watched to see his reaction. He sat i silence, as if not even aware of the view before him." Chapter 5, p. 17

"That the Master seemed to grow larger when he seated himself before the Go board had to do of course with the power and prestige of his art, the reward of long training and discipline; but his trunk was disproportionately long." Chapter 6, p. 20

"And I looked at the body. The head of a doll, and the head only, seemed to protrude from the honeycomb pattern of the rough-woven kimono...