“You shouldn’t drink so much tea.”
“I know. But when I think I want to drink. Excuse me, if you will,
please.” And he got up again.
This little way of Otaké’s had become material for the gossip columns
and the cartoons in the Go journals. The amount of walking he did in the
course of a match, it was said, would take him down the Tōkaidō as far as
Mishima.