Dohei Takabe

Dohei Takabe
Full name	Dōhei Takabe
Kanji	高部 道平
Born	1881 Unknown, Japan
Died	1951
Teacher	Honinbo Shuei
Rank	7 dan
Affiliation	Kiseisha, Keiinsha

Dohei Takabe (高部 道平, Takabe Dōhei^?, 1881 – October 19, 1951) was a professional 7 dan Go player.

Biography

Takabe was a pupil of Honinbo Shuei, the 17th and 19th head of the Honinbō house. In the 1920s, he joined the Kiseisha, a splinter group of the Nihon Ki-in, Japan's main administrative body for Go. The Kiseisha was succeeded by the Keiinsha, of which Takabe was also a member, until 1991 when the last of its members died. In addition, he was one of the five Hiseikai, a group formed in 1922 and devoted to tournament play.^[1] The other members of the Hiseikai were Chiyotaro Onoda, Segoe Kensaku, Tamejiro Suzuki and Karigane Junichi.

Nakano Kiichiro was Takabe's only pupil.

Notes

1. ^ "Dohei Takabe's profile". Sensei's Library. http://senseis.xmp.net/?TakabeDohei. Retrieved 2010-02-11. 

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Name	Takabe, Dohei
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Date of birth	1881
Place of birth	Unknown, Japan
Date of death	1951
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