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Honinbo Sansa (1559 - 1623) was a
Japanese player of Go,
and the strongest player of his day. He was a Buddhist priest of the Nichiren sect, and his original name was Nikkai. Living in a hut called Honinbo, he taught Go there and eventually came to found the house of Honinbo. Among his students were the Japanese warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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