From: Takako Noda <mxc06231 <at> JA2 <dot> SO-NET <dot> OR <dot> JP>
Date: 5 sep 1996
Subject: Voila! The World's Oldest Kifu.

Here I am with the oldest kifu. Sorry to be late, but I had to learn
first how it is to be recorded in the international fashion.
Thanks to Matt Leonard's home page, I managed somehow.
The players were Ohashi Sokei(black) and Hon-Imbo Sansa(white).
Sokei is well-known because of his name, So-Kei,meaning double-Kei(ma).
He is said to have shown an artistic touch in his use of Keima,
thereby was given the name by Oda Nobunaga, his master. The game
is said to have taken place in 1607, a few years after Shakespeare
wrote Hamlet. Enjoy yourselves!

1.P-7f   P-3d      2.S-4h   P-4d      3.P-4f   S-4b     4.S-4g   S-4c

5.P-3f   R-4b      6.R-4h   B-3c      7.P-1f   P-1d     8.P-2f   K-6b
9.K-6h   K-7b     10.K-7h   S-6b     11.G-5h   P-5d    12.P-5f   S-5c
13.S-6h   P-6d    14.P-6f   G-5b     15.S-6g   G-6c    16.P-9f   P-9d
17.P-8f   P-7d    18.G-8g   K-8b     19.G-8h   G-7b    20.N-7g   P-8d
21.R-3h   P-3b    22.P-2e   B-5a     23.R-2h   R-2b    24.P-6e   N-7c
25.Px6d   Gx6d    26.P-4e   B-3c     27.N-3g   P*6e    28.R-2i   P-7e
29.Px7e   Gx7e    30.P*7f   G-7d     31.R-6i   S-6d    32.Nx6e   Nx6e
33.P*6f   P-8e    34.Px8e   P-7g     35.G-7i   N*7e    36.Px7e   Sx7e
37.P*7f   P*8f    38.K-9h   P-9e     39.P*7e   Gx7e    40.S*7f   Gx7f
41.Sx7f   Px9f    42.Px6e   S*7h     43.P*9b   Lx9b    44.N*8d   B-5a
45.N*7d   K-8c    46.Nx9b   Kx9b     47.Bx7g   S-6i+   48.Gx6i   P*7e
49.P*9c   K-8a    50.Bx8f   Px7f     51.G*9b   K-7a    52.B-5c+  K-6a
53.L*6d   P*6b    54.+Bx4c  L*5b     55.K-8g   R*8i    56.K-7h   P-7g+
57.Kx7g   Rx6i+   58.S*5c   S*6f     59.K-8f   +R-8i   60.K-9e   P-6c
61.S*6b   Bx6b    62.Sx6b   Gx6b     63.Nx6b   Kx6b    64.B*5c   K-7c
65.G*8d   K-7b    66.P*7c   K-6a     67.Lx6c+  towel thrown