The Master of Go

The Master of Go - novel by Yasunari Kawabata. Article “The Master of Go” in English Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.27 points.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “The Master of Go”, its content was written by 45 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 196 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 158 times in English Wikipedia and cited 500 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #47737 in April 2005
• Global: #45299 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #396179 in March 2016
• Global: #418694 in March 2016

There are 15 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) 名人 (小説)		35.123
2	English (en) The Master of Go		24.1444
3	Indonesian (id) Empu Go		23.5214
4	Chinese (zh) 名人 (小說)		19.0681
5	German (de) Meijin (Roman)		12.4395
6	French (fr) Le Maître ou le Tournoi de go		11.6857
7	Arabic (ar) سيد الغو (رواية)		10.7212
8	Romanian (ro) Maestrul de go		10.0119
9	Polish (pl) Meijin – mistrz go		8.7522
10	Russian (ru) Мэйдзин (роман)		3.4843

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Master of Go" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Master of Go		194 517
2	Japanese (ja) 名人 (小説)		54 868
3	Spanish (es) El maestro de Go		51 811
4	Russian (ru) Мэйдзин (роман)		48 148
5	Polish (pl) Meijin – mistrz go		20 566
6	Chinese (zh) 名人 (小說)		18 171
7	Italian (it) Il maestro di go		17 103
8	Portuguese (pt) O Mestre do Go		10 523
9	French (fr) Le Maître ou le Tournoi de go		6 256
10	Romanian (ro) Maestrul de go		6 064

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Master of Go" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Master of Go		1 282
2	Japanese (ja) 名人 (小説)		248
3	Russian (ru) Мэйдзин (роман)		227
4	Spanish (es) El maestro de Go		209
5	French (fr) Le Maître ou le Tournoi de go		133
6	Chinese (zh) 名人 (小說)		115
7	Italian (it) Il maestro di go		89
8	Korean (ko) 명인 (소설)		43
9	German (de) Meijin (Roman)		42
10	Portuguese (pt) O Mestre do Go		34

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The Master of Go" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Master of Go		45
2	Japanese (ja) 名人 (小説)		30
3	Italian (it) Il maestro di go		20
4	Chinese (zh) 名人 (小說)		17
5	Russian (ru) Мэйдзин (роман)		15
6	Spanish (es) El maestro de Go		13
7	Romanian (ro) Maestrul de go		10
8	Polish (pl) Meijin – mistrz go		9
9	Portuguese (pt) O Mestre do Go		8
10	Ukrainian (uk) Мейдзін (книга)		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The Master of Go" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سيد الغو (رواية)		0
2	German (de) Meijin (Roman)		0
3	English (en) The Master of Go		0
4	Spanish (es) El maestro de Go		0
5	French (fr) Le Maître ou le Tournoi de go		0
6	Indonesian (id) Empu Go		0
7	Italian (it) Il maestro di go		0
8	Japanese (ja) 名人 (小説)		0
9	Korean (ko) 명인 (소설)		0
10	Polish (pl) Meijin – mistrz go		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The Master of Go" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Master of Go		158
2	Russian (ru) Мэйдзин (роман)		101
3	Chinese (zh) 名人 (小說)		89
4	Japanese (ja) 名人 (小説)		59
5	Arabic (ar) سيد الغو (رواية)		16
6	Korean (ko) 명인 (소설)		11
7	French (fr) Le Maître ou le Tournoi de go		9
8	Polish (pl) Meijin – mistrz go		9
9	German (de) Meijin (Roman)		8
10	Spanish (es) El maestro de Go		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سيد الغو (رواية)
de	German Meijin (Roman)
en	English The Master of Go
es	Spanish El maestro de Go
fr	French Le Maître ou le Tournoi de go
id	Indonesian Empu Go
it	Italian Il maestro di go
ja	Japanese 名人 (小説)
ko	Korean 명인 (소설)
pl	Polish Meijin – mistrz go
pt	Portuguese O Mestre do Go
ro	Romanian Maestrul de go
ru	Russian Мэйдзин (роман)
uk	Ukrainian Мейдзін (книга)
zh	Chinese 名人 (小說)

Best Rank

English: #396179 03.2016

Global: #418694 03.2016

Best Rank

English: #47737 04.2005

Global: #45299 12.2003

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