Yasunari Kawabata called published in 1951 "Meijin" his best work. The book was based on a real event - the half-year-long "farewell party" of the great Meijin Hongyimbo Xusaya - the master of the game in go - against a promising young opponent. About the course of the party writes a journalist, which guesses Kawabata himself, who really was reporting on the game for the newspaper “Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun” He watches as the venues of the party change, as each next move takes more time, as the health of the elderly master begins to give up, as youth gradually takes precedence over experience, and centuries-old traditions give way to scientific calculation and pragmatism. Translated from the Japanese by Anna Slashcheva, under the scientific editorship of Vadim Filippov, master of sports in Go, 4th dan of the Russian Federation go.