Meijin (名人) is one of the eight titles in Japanese professional shogi, and is the most prestigious title, along with Ryūō. The word meijin (名 mei "excellent...

The Women's Meijin (女流名人 (Joryū Meijin)) is one of the eight major titles of women's professional shogi. The title is awarded yearly to the winner of...

players: regular professional and women's professional. All regular professional shogi players are members of the Japan Shogi Association (JSA). However, only...

standard shogi and Go were promoted by the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1612, the shogunate passed a law giving endowments to top shogi players (Meijin (名人))....

is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 6-dan. She is the current holder of the Women's Meijin, Women's Ōi [ja], Women's Ōza [ja], Kurashiki...

title of meijin is still used, for the winner of the Meijin-sen competition. It became a tradition for shogi players inheriting the title of meijin to present...

of the Women's Ōza [ja] and Women's Meijin titles. Nishiyama was born on June 27, 1995, in Ōsakasayama, Osaka. She first was exposed to shogi as a three-year-old...

April 23, 1984) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan. He is a former holder of the Meijin, Kisei, Ōshō, Ōza, Kiō and Ryūō titles. He is...

the Women's Amateur Meijin tournament in 1979 when she was 11 years old. Hayashiba has received a number of Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Awards...

Aichi) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan. He is the current holder of the Kiō, Kisei, Meijin, Ōi, Ōshō, Ōza and Ryūō titles, and...

title of Queen Meijin, and also was the first women's professional to beat a regular shogi professional in an official game, the first women's professional...

effect by the Japan Shogi Association at the beginning of April. Encore presentations of Yoshiharu Habu's victories over four Meijins were broadcast instead...

the 3rd International Shogi Forum, the Japan Shogi Association permitted Toshiyuki Moriuchi, 2005 Meijin, to play computer shogi program YSS. Toshiyuki...

and is also a former Women's Meijin and Ōshō [ja] title holder. Takojima was the first female to be accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice...

December 4, 1966) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 5-dan. She is a former Women's Meijin, Women's Ōshō [ja] and Kurashiki Tōka [ja]...

October 6, 1993) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 4-dan. She is a former holder of the Women's Meijin title. Itō was born in Musashino...

born January 10, 1980) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 5-dan. She is a former Women's Meijin, Ōi [ja] and Jo-Ō [ja] title holder...

将棋名人戦七番勝負全記録—森内, 名人位奪還 [Complete Record of the 69th Shogi Meijin Seven Game Match—Moriuchi Wins Back the Meijin Title] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Asahi Shimbun...

64th NHK Cup TV Shogi Tournament (第64回NHK杯テレビ将棋トーナメント, dairokujūyonkai enueichikeihai terebi shōgi tōnamento) was a professional shogi tournament organized...

Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament while she was a junior high school student. That same year, she entered the Japan Shogi Association's Women's Professional...

Women's Meijin title in 2004, but lost the 31st Women's Meijin match to Shimizu 3 games to 1. Chiba finally won her first women's professional shogi major...

Class D1 of the Japan Shogi Association (JSA) training group system, and she finished tied for third in the 48th Women's Amateur Meijin Tournament [ja] later...

ranks are also given for strategic board games such as Go, Japanese chess (shōgi), and renju, as well as for other arts such as the tea ceremony (sadō or...

Fujita (藤田 綾, Fujita Aya, born March 24, 1987) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan. She holds the record for being the youngest...

Kaisai Hōkoku" ｢第51期女流アマ名人戦｣ 開催報告 [51st Women's Amateur Meijin Tournament Report] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. October 16, 2019. Retrieved...

6th Women's Ōshō [ja] title in 1983 and the 11th Women's Meijin title in 1984, but lost each time. She has, however, won one non-major title women's tournament:...

Sanjūyonki Joryū Ama Meijinsen" 第34期女流アマ名人戦 [34th Women's Amateur Meijin Tournament] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. May 26, 2002. Retrieved September...

local shogi school shortly thereafter. In 2010, she finished runner-up in the girl's division of the 4th Elementary School Student Girl's Meijin Tournament [ja]...

The Japan Shogi Association (日本将棋連盟, Nihon Shōgi Renmei), or JSA, is the primary organizing body for professional shogi in Japan. The JSA sets the professional...

professional shogi title matches and was first held in 1988. Among the eight titles in the professional shogi titleholder system, Ryūō and Meijin are the most...