J. Fairbairn wrote:
I'm sure it's well worth having, and you may wish to know it's mainly a reworking of the Gokyo Seimyo and Gokyo Shumyo by Hayashi Genbi.
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I'm not sure I can use it fruitfully... yet, but it was an experiment on PoD and old books. I think that experience is worthwhile right now, not 5 kyu up the hill.
But, in any case, I appreciate the background. I'm always a bit fuzzy in the chronology of [Japanese] Go in the early XXth century. I tend to democratize early and shin fuseki late, for example.
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No snowflakes in those days!
What!? Not even in Hokkaido? And they talk about global warming...
M. Grünauer wrote:
You can also download the whole book as a PDF of scanned pages from
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1137764 (click on the download icon in the page's toolbar.)
I know. Sorta. I know the place, I have several PDFs from there [2 score+], I'm not 100% sure I have Fumiko-sensei's [UPDATE: I didn't; solved].
And yet... The problem with the PDFs at the National Diet's site is that they're... scholarly? In the sense that they're a substitute for lending the original book, so they have every single bit of information: a ruler for scale, sometimes a color palette for comparison... If you straight up print that, there's a lot of "noise" for someone who only wants the information ON the book, not ABOUT the book. That's why I say that 3 USD is not that much for a clean copy. And why I mention that a volunteeer effort would be a bit of a chore.
So I tried one of those books available on Amazon (there are... 15-ish more, I think), and it worked with very minor tweaks (the original turns pages Eastern-wise, for example, so I added a blank page, IRC, to keep the pages oriented).
But the overall experience is interesting, I think.
Take care. Stay healthy.