Can anyone identify these...

I inherited these when the old Rafu Ki-in closed down. I've asked a lot of people ... nobody knows. I've e-mailed a couple of appraisers too. They don't get back to me.

I will try again, but maybe one of you knows.

Photo 1: 裡斯在樂 (read right to left)
-- signed 五段 (read top to bottom, 5-dan)
福田正義 (read top to bottom) Fukuda Masayoshi (Maybe this one? -- 福田正義
According to the wikipedia page, he was 8-dan, Nihon Kiin.
But I could not find him at Nihon Kiin's or Kansai Kiin's websites,
although a Chinese webpage lists him as 6-dan, and that he played Go Seigen, Hashimoto Utaro;
but they didn't say which Kiin! 　)

Photo 2: 水流雲行 (read right to left)
为 羅府 支部 (read top to bottom: for the Los Angeles chapter, per John )
秀(?)村/哉(?)書 (read top to bottom: calligraphy by Shu(?)-??)

Fukuda Masayoshi
福田正義

Male. (1899-06-05 ~ 1981-11-06, Toyohashi City, Aichi Pref.) Pupil of Honinbo Shusai (1911). 1d 1917, 2d 1919, 3d 1921, 4d 1922, 5d 1925, 6d 1942. Retired and 7d 1978. Posthumous 8d. He led the first Nihon Ki-in trip overseas, to Germany, in 1937, also teaching go to the Hitler Youth. He also met Albert Einstein at Princeton 8 May 1951 through Einstein's assistant, Nobel physicist Yano Kentaro. He was appointed to the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, in 1981 (a special "on the verge of death" award). Nickname was Anchan.

Best wishes.

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TMark, thanks. I only googled with the kanji 福田正義, but not with the romanji Fukuda Masayoshi

1. 樂在斯裡
"Happiness lies herein". Not a famous saying. This sort of thing often accompanies the gift of a board or stones. But these characters are also often used for transliterations and it may just be that a pun on Los Angeles was intended.

2. 行雲流水
This is the "Moving clouds, flowing water" I mentioned in another thread.
爲 羅府支部 = For the Los Angeles Branch (or 'chapter' as our US friends quaintly say).

The signature part of the photo is too blurry for my old eyes. However, there is a possibility that it says 'written by Shusai'. The Shusai connection existed as Fukuda was a Honinbo pupil. As can further be inferred from T Mark's quotation from the GoGoD Names Dictionary, on the basis of dates the Fukuda scroll would seem to be dateable between 1937 and 1942 (or 37 to 39 if it was written by Shusai). This scroll may be of interest to the Los Angeles museum for Japanese American history (I forget its title). A little bit of outreach by the AGA to that community may be fruitful. There are other go artefacts there.

A little more on Fukuda: as he was a Honinbo pupil his trip to Germany would have carried some extra clout. He had already met Dueball in Tokyo, but the trip obviously meant something special to him because he later wrote a book about it (Memories of Germany). Apart from his proselytising overseas, he was also a major force in promoting go among students.

I did a little more digging. Fukuda was in Los Angeles in February 1939 as part of a 2-3 month stay in the US, which included time at the New York World's Fair. The initial meet with American players in LA seems to have been at a chess club on Figueroa Street and the US players (described as 8-kyu and below) included (some name transcriptions I have to guess at) John L. Bauer, Professor F. Boen (?Vaughan) Blast/Vlast/Prast, Prof. Morgan Ward, P. R. Olston (these four constituted an official party), Richard Lyon and Bob Aronson and 3 or 4 others.

The two professors were from Pasadena Engineering College (or whatever its name is).

The top Japanese-origin players in LA were ranked as 2-kyu. Fukuda gave 140 teaching games and won 114, plus 2 jigos.

Probably Caltech ( California Institute of Technology )
Prof. Morgan Ward was Caltech Professor of Mathematics, 1929-1963.

Professor F. Boen (?Vaughan)(?Bowen) Blast/Vlast/Prast -- more difficult to search: too many partial hits.