6 Screenprints "Mejin", Depicting the Game of Go, Made by Harald Germer, Signed and Numbered 86/100

Series of 6 rare screenprints / serigraphs by german artist harald germer. Title: mejin. Edition: limited to 100 prints. This exemplar is number 86/100. Each print is individually hand signed and numbered. Material: printed on 300g lana-bütten paper. Size: 30x40cm. Comes in its original grey dust jacket, which is also numbered. Tamura yasuhisa (1874-1940), better known under his go player's name - shusai - became a symbol of ancient japan. Being the last appointed meijin he was regarded as the strongest go player (igo 囲碁 / weiqi 围棋 / baduk 바둑) for decades. Late in the 1920s his supremacy was tested. The two young geniuses go seigen and kitani minoru came to the top of the go world to challenge him to official title matches. To everyone's astonishment, shusai managed a win against go seigen. In 1937, shusai, already ill and seemingly exhausted, accepted his last battle, against kitani minoru. The time of allotment of 40 hours a player showed what an extraordinary match this was. When the game ended on december 4th 1938, the "invincible master" had lost his last match. Japanese nobel laureate writer yasunari kawabata wrote a novel about shusai’s final game with kitani minoru, titled "meijin". Its english title is "the master of go". With the help of old photographs harald germer transformed shusai's final matches into 6 works of art. The style of the pictures reminds of the japanese woodblock print tradition with a modern touch thanks to the sensible strokes of germer's drawing style.

Ref. : 2BZPAKA8