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Master,gravely ill,played well tobeat off the violent assaults of the fore-most of the new regulars until the moment,late in the game,when the initiative quiteslipped from his hands.\"In short,theMaster was dying.  \nThis is the novel—at once elegiac and suffusedwith life—that Yasunari Kawabata,the in-ternationally acclaimed Japanese writer andwinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature inI968,considered to be his finest work.  \nIt centers on.a single game of Go,the ulti-mate contest for supremacy between the here-tofore invincible old Master of Go,and hisyounger,more modern challenger.It is a gameextended over many months of play—a gamewhose elevated atmosphere of ceremony in-creasingly gives way before the complex humantensions not only between the Master and theChallenger but between their wives,their fer-vidly competitive managers,their retinues,andthe two worlds and sensibilities they represent.For the game is the framework—the true sub-ject of Kawabata's profoundly moving novelis the contest between tradition and change,between the old Japan and the new,and,ulti-mately,between life and death.  \nBY YASUNARI KAWABATA  \n# Snow CountryThousand CranesSnow Country and Thousand Cranes\n\nNobel Prize Edition  \n# The Sound of the Mountain\n\n# THE\n\nMASTEROF GO让  \n# THE\n\nMASTEROF GO  \nYASUNARIKAWABATA  \ntranslated fromthe Japanese byEdward G.Seidensticker  \nCHARLES E.TUTTLE COMPANYSuido 1-chome,2-6,Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo  \nUNESCO COLLECTION OFREPRESENTATIVE WORKS  \nJapanese Series  \nThis book has been accepted in Japanese Transla-tion Series of the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCo)  \nOriginally published in Japanese as Meijin  \nPublished by the Charles E.Tuttle Company,Inc.of Rutland,Vermont and Tokyo,Japanwith editorial offices atSuido 1-chome,2-6,Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo,Japanby special arrangement withAlfred A.Knopf,Inc.,New York.  \nCopyright ◎1972 by Alfred A.Knopf,Inc.  \nAll rights reserved  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any formwithout permission in writing from the publisher,except by a reviewer,who may quote brief passages in areview to be printed in a magazine or newspaper.  \nFirst Tuttle edition,1973Fourth printing,1985  \nPRINTED IN JAPAN  \n# Introduction\n\nMr.Kawabata has described The Master of Go as“a faith-ful chronicle-novel.”The word used,of course,is not\"novel\"but shosetsu,a rather more fexible and generousand catholic term than \"novel.\"Frequently what wouldseem to the Western reader a piece of autobiography or aset of memoirs,somewhat embroidered and colored butessentially nonfiction all the same,is placed by the Japanesereader in the realm of the shosetsu.  \nSo it is with The Master of Go.It contains elements offiction,but it is rather more chronicle than novel,a sad,elegant piece of reportage,based upon a 1938 Go match,the course of which was precisely as described in this\"chronicle-novel,\"and upon which Mr.Kawabata reportedfor the twin Osaka and Tokyo newspapers that today bothbear the name Mainichi.  \nCertain elements of fiction are obvious.Mr.Kawabatagives himself a fictitious name,Uragami,and apparently,though the matter could be a small failure of memory,assigns himself a different age from that which is actuallyhis.The Master is known by his own name,or rather hisprofessional name,but,as if to emphasize that the Master  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nis the protagonist,always at the center of things,Mr.Kawabata also assigns the adversary,in real life Mr.KitaniMinoru,a fictitious name.The complex treatment of time,with the action beginning and ending at the same point,and the delicate,impressionistic descriptions of setting andseason are further justification for the expression “chroni-cle-novel.”  \nBut the most complex element of fiction probably is inthe delineation of the Master himself.Persons who knewhim in real life have told us that in addition to being almostgrotesquely 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