Goban o idasu wa sakujitsu maketa yatsu.
The fellow that lost yesterday is the one that gets out the go board.

Suitsuketa hou ga ikubun katteru go.
The one who lights his pipe is probably winning the game.

Bonsai ni kane o tsukashite go ni fukeri.
Making his wife ring the temple bell, the priest absorbs in himself in the game of go.

Tsunbou ni go wa kataretari hototogisu.
A nightingale sang - the game was won by the deaf man.

Oho-misoka seken e giri de go o yasumi.
Because of his New Year's Eve's obligations, he [at last] takes a rest from go.

Koto-ki-ga narabeta bakari shirinsen.
"I've just set out the lute, go board and writing brush but I know little of them"
(These are the simpering words of a geisha who would be accomplished in these traditional arts but pretends - to make her guest feel better - to know little of them)

Teichuu no gogataki nyoubo no me no kataki.
The husband's go partner is the wife's eyesore.

Gogataki e nyoubo makete kure to iu.
"Please lose [one] game," the wife implores the go guest.

Shouben ni okite nyoubo wa go o shikari.
Getting out of bed for a pee, the wife scolds the [all-night] go players.