{{short description|Japanese Go player}} {{Infobox go player | name=Hon'inbō San'etsu | fullname=Hon'inbō San'etsu | kanji=本因坊算悦 | birth_date=1611 | birth_place=Japan | death_date=1658 | death_place=Japan | teacher={{Plainlist| * Hon'inbō Sansa * Nakamura Dōseki}} | rank=8 dan }}
'''Hon'inbō San'etsu''' (本因坊算悦, 1611–1658) was a professional Go player, and second head of the Hon'inbō house.
== Biography == San'etsu was the second Hon'inbō. A minor at the time of Hon'inbō Sansa's death, he inherited a difficult situation since he could not receive the official allowance for the house. Sansa had asked Nakamura Dōseki to act as San'etsu's guardian, and through Dōseki's good offices an annual 30 ''koku'' of rice was negotiated.<ref name="GMR">''Go Monthly Review'' 1963/5 p.53</ref> During his minority the position of head of the Hon'inbō house was in abeyance, so that the house notionally did not exist.
He played in an international match, giving Peichin Tsuhanoko of the Ryukyu Kingdom a two-stone handicap, when the latter came to Japan with a Ryukyuan embassy in 1634.<ref>http://www.gogod.demon.co.uk/NewInGo/Firsts_intl.htm{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
The high point of San'etsu's professional career came in a challenge match against Yasui Sanchi. From 1645 to 1653 they played six games of ''oshirogo'', but the result was 3-3. Neither player therefore made the step up from 8 ''dan'' to Meijin.<ref name="GMR"/>
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{{s-start}} {{succession box |before= Hon'inbō Sansa|title = Hon'inbō|years=1630–1658|after=Hon'inbō Dōetsu}} {{s-end}}
==External links== *[http://gobase.org/games/japan/misc/disks/sanetsu/ At Gobase]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanetsu, Honinbo}} Category:1611 births Category:1658 deaths Category:Japanese Go players Category:17th-century Go players
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