Hane Naoki has published a really superb book about honte, called 本手の打ち方が分かる本 (How to Understand Honte), on MyCom.

I will review it when I have finished reading the last few pages, but with this post I am going to offer a translation of one page, because it's probably one of the easiest-to-grasp explanations of what "honte" means you will find anywhere.



The original Japanese is



As this is only a short quotation, I think it should be okay to use it here, but if anybody thinks it is too long, please let me know. Hopefully, this should motivate you to buy the book - not only does Hane explain very well what honte is, and (crucially) what it is not, but he also provides a lot of very well chosen examples.

This is not the same book as The Way of Creating a Thick and Strong Game. In due course, I shall be interested in translating go books...

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Learn the "tea-stealing" tesuji! Cho Chikun demonstrates here:

Maybe Anders Kierulf can mediate / arrange something. Best of luck!

I certainly hope that can happen. I've really been enjoying your selections! You have a good eye for what's interesting.

Interesting trying to read the japanese, I learned some new go kanji/vocab.

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