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Your Move/Readers Write: Ukiyo-e at Shizuoka

"I read your article about the Tokugawa Memorial Go Congress set for February 2017 in Shizuoka," writes Erwin Gerstorfer. "One additional bit of information that might be interesting to the readers of the American Go E-Journal is an exhibition of go-related Ukiyo-e -- woodblock prints and paintings -- in the Tokaido Hiroshige Art Museum of Shizuoka that will take place from February 6th to April 1st, 2018. There was a go related Ukiyo-e exhibition in Villach, Austria in 2007 in conjunction with the European Go Congress but this one will be bigger and more exciting and taking place in a dedicated Ukiyo-e museum." "I have met one of the Japanese organizers of the go festival at the European Go Congress in Oberhof last summer and my impression is that this event is well worth a visit. They are very dedicated to that event and especially interested in international participation. You can reach Shizuoka from Tokyo by train (Shinkansen) in about 90 min and there are several trains a day." Image: Kubo Shunman's "Outfit for the Go Game"