Game Records
The kifu of old games typically have an annotation showing the handicap position. Even if the game was a one-off challenge, there was very often the implied context: the players had formal ranks, the game might be notionally part of a longer series. The modern way to indicate Black in a Japanese game record is still to write sen ban.
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