His Golden Days (GoSeiGen, WuQingYuan, 吳淸源) WuQingYuan was the most famous go player in 20th century and has respected as a live Go Saint. He was born in 1914 from a big family of Fuzhou in southeast of China. In 1926, Japanese 6-dan player Iwamoto Kaoru came to Beijing. He played two games with QingYuan: first game was a 3-stone game, and QingYuan won it; second game was a 2-stone game, and QingYuan lost by 2 points. After Kaoru went back to Japan, he started to mention QingYuan's talent in the go world. Soon after, a famous player Inoue Kohei 5-dan came to Beijing to test QingYuan's strength. He played three games with QingYuan, and QingYuan won them all. Kohei returned to japan and reported QingYuan's strength to Nihin Kiin. Later, the famed Segoe Kensaku 7-dan started to have correspondings with Yamasaki, discussing a possible trip to Japan by QingYuan. In October, 1928, QingYuan arrived to Japan. Okura Kishichiro, director of Nihon Kiin, had promised to support his living expense. QingYuan then officially became a Niho Kiin's player and since 1930 he started to participate twice a year Oteai tournament of Nihon Kiin. QingYuan went 7-1 score gaining the highest total points and promoted to 4-dan. In 1931, QingYuan participated the Tokyo times sponsored newspaper tournament. QingYuan triumphed consecutivly, defeating 18 opponents in a row. During the 1932 spring session of Oteai tpurnament, he won all of his games. He promoted to 5-dan, and 6-dan in 1934. In 1936, he officially naturized to become a Japanese citizen, changing name to Go Izumi. In February 1942, QingYuan got married a college student nagahara. In this year he won the first prize of Nihon Kiin's high-dan competition. In August 1946, he started the 10-game series with Hashimot Utaro. The series lasted only 8 games because hashimoto resigned after trailing 6-2. In 1948, he started another 10-game series with Iwamoto Kaoru. This series lasted only 6 games, when Iwamoto resigned after QingYuan led the series 5-1. In 1950, when he was 36, QingYuan promoted to 9-dan. The 50's were QingYuan's golden years, he defeated all the top arrivals in a series of spectacular 10-game series. In 1961, QingYuan was 47 years old. He displayed once again his prime form, winning the 3rd Japan's Strongest Deciding Matches. This was the last glorious victory in his magnificant career. One afternoon in August of this year, he was hit by a motorcycle when he walked across a street. Several bones were broken and his brain was seriously damaged. He fell down in 1965. Rin Kaiho, Otake Hideo, Ishida Yoshio, and Cho Chikun follwed him.