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...
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Meijin (名人) is a Renju title in Japan. The Meijin title tournament, formally called the All Japan Renju Meijin-sen (全日本連珠名人戦), is played every year in...
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Meijin (名人) means "Expert or Master". It is the name of the second most prestigious Japanese Go Tournament. It also refers to a traditional Japanese title...
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Wu Meijin (simplified Chinese: 吴美锦; traditional Chinese: 吳美錦; pinyin: Wú Měijǐn; born April 25, 1980, in Ruian, Zhejiang) is a Chinese weightlifter who...
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Honorary Go titles (redirect from Honorary Meijin)
row 2013 to 2021. Cho Chikun won the Meijin 5 times in a row from 1980 to 1984. Kobayashi Koichi won the Meijin 7 times in a row from 1988 to 1994. Takagawa...
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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 the...
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tournaments include the Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo, Judan, Tengen, Gosei, and the Oza. There are also separate Honinbo, Meijin, and Kisei titles for women....
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The Master of Go (Japanese: 名人, Hepburn: Meijin) is a novel by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. First published in serial form...
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ten players received the title of Meijin. Several other players (16 total) received the title of Jun-Meijin (half-Meijin), which is considered to equal an...
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In 1935, meijin Kinjirō Sekine stepped down, and the rank of meijin came to be awarded to the winner of a Meijin title match (名人戦, meijin-sen). Yoshio...
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Korean-born 9 dan professional in Japan. In 1980, Cho Chikun visited South Korea after winning the Meijin title and the two began a friendship match consisting...
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Cho Chikun (section The 25th Meijin)
Cho Chikun 25th Honinbo Honorary Meijin (Korean: 조치훈; born June 20, 1956) is a professional Go player and a nephew of Cho Namchul. Born in Busan, South...
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Yahho! Deluxe Pack Eisei Meijin Gokujō Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95 1996 Bottom of the 9th Eisei Meijin II Gradius Deluxe Pack...
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Jūdan (Go) (redirect from Hayago Meijin)
will be promoted to 9 dan. The competition had a predecessor, named Hayago Meijin, that ran from 1956 to 1961. "Title Information". nihonkiin.or.jp/english...
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(main) [ja], the Ōhashi (branch) [ja] and the Itō [ja]. Titles such as Meijin were hereditary and could only be held by members of these three families...
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age of thirty should be Meijin. However, Rin put up a great fight and won the Meijin title. Rin would continue winning the Meijin on different occasions...
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Inoki, and Teruko Kagawa to defeat the team of HIRO Dai Circus Yasuda, Mitsukuni Daiso, Waka Shoyo, and Yamaishi Meijin in an 8-person tag team match....
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and Kobayashi Koichi. At one point, Kato held four of the top 7 titles: Meijin, Oza, Judan and Gosei. Kato was elected president of the Nihon Ki-in and...
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(TUR) 1999: Halil Mutlu (TUR) 2001: Halil Mutlu (TUR) 2002: Wu Meijin (CHN) 2003: Wu Meijin (CHN) 2005: Wang Shin-yuan (TPE) 2006: Li Zheng (CHN) 2007: Cha...
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Cho U (category 1980 births)
qualified for the 56th Honinbo league. He missed out on qualifying for the 26th Meijin league when he lost to Hideki Komatsu in the last qualifying round. Cho...
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Man", is same as meijin in Japanese and as mingren in Chinese. The Myeongin is the Hanguk Kiwon equivalent to the Nihon-Kiin's Meijin title. The tournament...
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List of manga published by Shogakukan (section 1980)
Caravan Kidd Crying Freeman Doki Doki Heartbeat Famicom Runner: Takahashi Meijin Monogatari Happi Chokuzen Kaze wo Nuke! Maboroshi Umaboroshi O~i! Ryōma...
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Makoto Nakahara (category Meijin (shogi))
Shōwa period (1926–1989) and holds the titles of Lifetime Kisei, Lifetime Meijin, Lifetime 10-dan [ja], Lifetime Ōi, and Lifetime Ōza. Nakahara retired from...
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Akiko Takojima (category Women's Meijin)
titles. She won the Women's Meijin title four times (1974–76, 1981) and the Women's Ōshō [ja] title three times (1978–1980). Takojima won the Japan Shogi...
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Daniel Núñez (category Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics)
bantamweight class at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan and at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Núñez set a world record for the snatch at the...
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players to come out of the academy include Kikuyo Aoki (current Women's Meijin), Atsushi Kato, Jiro Akiyama, Tomochika Mizokami (winner of many youth titles)...
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4th Kisei (redirect from 1980 Kisei)
challenger after beating Hashimoto Shoji 2 games to 1, but would lose 4 games to 1 against Fujisawa. "kisei title, 4th edition, 1980". Retrieved June 5, 2012....
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climactic go game played between the fictional players Fujiwara-no-Sai and Toya Meijin in the anime and manga series Hikaru no Go was in fact a real 1997 game...
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Kōji Tanigawa (category Meijin (shogi))
Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan. He is the 17th Lifetime Meijin and also a former president of the Japan Shogi Association (JSA). Kōji Tanigawa...
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NHK Cup (shogi) (section Habu beats four Meijins)
professional shogi players. The winner was Yoshio Kimura, who held the Meijin title at the time. Prior to 1962, the tournament was broadcast only on the...
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