Books

Go on the Go Collection: Volume I
Three booklets have been assembled into the collection here.
From Kidō, September 1975
Edo Town Go Club
Written and drawn by Tani Ikuo
Festival participants carrying the mikoshi portable shrine: Wasshoi, wasshoi (Hup, hup, hup)
Crowd: Wow!
Boorish kid: Oooh! It’s the festival! It’s the festival!
Boorish kid: Shoot! (i.e., a similar curse word) It’s the festival! It’s the festival!
Boorish kid: Oooh! Here it is! Here it is!
Festival participants carrying the mikoshi portable shrine: Wasshoi, wasshoi (Hup, hup, hup)
Boorish kid: Shoot! (i.e., a similar curse word) I wanna carry it, too!
Boorish kid: Oooh!
Festival participant: Whoops!
Boorish kid: Oooh! It’s the mikoshi! It’s the mikoshi!
Festival participant carrying the mikoshi portable shrine: Oh no! It’s tipping over!
Festival participant carrying the mikoshi portable shrine: Get down, you!
Festival participants carrying the mikoshi portable shrine: WHOOPS!
FX: Bam! (Sound of mikoshi hitting the ground)
Boorish kid: Shoot! (i.e., a similar curse word) It’s the festival! Festival! It’s the festival!
FX: Bang, bang (sound of drum being struck)
FX: Hmm, Hmmm (sound of crowd talking)
FX: Thud, thud (sound of crowd walking)
Boorish kid: Oooh! It’s the taiko drum.
Boorish kid: Me too, me too.
Working man: No good! Can’t you see the trouble you’re causing?!
Boorish kid: Shut up! Let me do it too. You idiot!
Working man: Hey, hey, you!
Boorish kid: Well, here I go! Shoot (i.e., a similar curse word)
FX: Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang (sound of drum being struck)
FX: Thud, thud! (sound of people running away)
FX: Thud, thud! (sound of people running away)
Working man in depressed mood
FX: Rattle, rattle (sound of stones dropping on go board)
Boorish kid: Oooh wow! I won, I won! I did it again!!
Working man: How could I lose to this kind of guy, I wonder. You know…