Ishi Press

Ishi Press is a supplier of Go books and equipment in the 1990s, and publishes Go World magazine. The company's name and logo come from the Japanese word for "Stone" (石).

History and development

Ishi Press was founded in Japan in 1968 by Richard Bozulich. After publishing some English translations of Japanese Go books, the company began publishing original English works on Go, including a popular seven-volume set for beginning and intermediate players, titled The Elementary Go Series. Many of these books were written by Bozulich or James Davies in collaboration with Japanese professional Go players.

In 1986, Ishi Press expanded to an office in Mountain View, California under James Connelley. In the 1990s, it became embroiled in legal difficulties and became unable to pay its debts. Sam Sloan became president in 1994 and has attempted to restore the company's standing as a publisher and expand into publishing books on chess and chess variants.

Ishi Press now has more than 600 books in print, including more than 200 chess books. Other Ishi Press books are about Go and other board games, high-level mathematics including calculus, and United States and Japanese history.

Ishi

Ishi (c. 1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last member of the Yahi, a group of the Yana of the U.S. state of California. Widely acclaimed in his time as the "last wild Indian" in America, Ishi lived most of his life completely outside modern culture. At 50 years of age, in 1911, he emerged near the present-day foothills of Lassen Peak, also known as Wa ganu p'a.

Ishi means "man" in the Yana language. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave this name to the man because in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that he not speak his name or that of anyone who was dead. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me," meaning that no Yahi had ever spoken his name. He was taken in by anthropologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who both studied him and hired him as a research assistant. He lived most of his remaining five years in a university building in San Francisco.

Biography

Early life

Ishi (disambiguation)

Ishi (c. 1860–1916) was an American Indian thought to be the last of the Yahi tribe.

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See also

Oishi

Oishi may refer to:

People with the name