Junisen › 39th term

39th term Junisen

Jun 19, 1980 – Mar 20, 1981

Meijin of this termMakoto Nakahara

Meijin-sen challenged by this term's Class A winner39th term Meijin-sen (FY1981)Meijin Makoto Nakahara 対 Challenger者 Kiyozumi Kiriyama 4-1 (Defended)

Shogi in FY1980

Kunio Yonenaga wins Kisei-sen, ending Makoto Nakahara's run of 5 consecutive Kisei-sen titles
Makoto Nakahara wins 8 consecutive Meijin-sen titles
Koji Tanigawa wins all 10 games in Class B2
Kenji Kobayashi wins all 10 games in Class C1
Yasuharu Ooyama is No. 1 in rating at FY end (1932)
Kenji Kobayashi: biggest rating gain of the year (1682→1784、+101)
Torahiko Tanaka (age 23 at FY end): best win rate among young players, 0.723 (34W-13L)
Kenji Kobayashi enters the rating top 10 for the first time (10th, 1784)
Kiyozumi Kiriyama becomes Meijin challenger for the first time (Class A7W-2L)
Koji Tanigawa drops out of the rating top 10 (7th→11th)

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Yonenaga	Ooyama	Katou	Kiriyama	Itaya	Katsuura	Naitou	Ishida	Kimura	Moriyasu
	9	2	3	1	2	1	Kunio Yonenaga	Kio	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	37	Yamanashi	6	3		○	○	○	●	○	●	●	○	○
	32	0	0	0	0	2	Yasuharu Ooyama	Osho	木見金治郎9-dan (deceased)	57	Okayama	5	4	●		○	●	●	○	○	○	○	●
	19	4	1	1	1	3	Hifumi Katoh	Judan	Shouji Kenmochi 9-dan (deceased)	40	Fukuoka	5	4	●	●		●	○	○	○	○	○	●
Challenger	5	2	3	1	3	4	Kiyozumi Kiriyama	8-dan	Toshiji Masuda 6-dan (deceased)	32	Nara	7	2	●	○	○		○	●	○	○	○	○
Relegated	6	2	5	3	1	5	Susumu Itaya	8-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	39	Aichi	3	6	○	○	●	●			●	●	○	●
	4	3	2	2	2	6	Osamu Katsuura	8-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	34	Hokkaido	6	3	●	○	●	○			○	○	○	○
	9	6	3	1	2	7	Kunio Naitou	9-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	40	Hyogo	5	4	○	●	●	●	○	●		○	○	○
	2	2	7	1	1	8	Kazuo Ishida	8-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	33	Aichi	4	5	○	●	●	●	○	●	●		○	○
Relegated	1	2	9	2	4	9	Yoshinori Kimura	8-dan	Jirou Katou Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	45	Tokyo	0	9	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●
	1	2	2	5	2	10	Hidemitsu Moriyasu	8-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	30	Okayama	4	5	●	○	○	●	○	●	●	●	○

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Futakami	Mori	Ariyoshi	Serizawa	Nishimura	Sekine	Satou	Oouchi	Maruta	Saeki	Miyasaka	Aono	Manabe
Promoted	23	3	1	1	1	1	Tatsuya Futakami	Kisei	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	48	Hokkaido	8	4		●	○	○	○	○	●	●	○	○	○	●	○
	3	3	2	1	3	2	Keiji Mori	8-dan	Noboru Ootomo 9-dan (deceased)	34	Kochi	8	4	○		○	●	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	○	●
	12	8	2	1	1	3	Michio Ariyoshi	9-dan	Yasuharu Ooyama15th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	44	Okayama	7	5	●	●		○	○	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○
	2	18	1	1	1	4	Hirofumi Serizawa	8-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	43	Shizuoka	4	8	●	○	●		○	○	○	●		●	●	●	●
	0	6	3	5	2	5	Kazuyoshi Nishimura	7-dan	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	38	Aichi	7	5	●	●	●	●		○	○	●	○	○	○	○	○
Relegated	3	13	7	1	2	6	Shigeru Sekine	8-dan	Tsugihiko Yamakawa 8-dan (deceased)	50	Tokyo	1	11	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	○	●	●	●
	2	11	6	1	3	7	Daigorou Satou	8-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	43	Hokkaido	6	6	○	●	●	●	●	○		○	○	●	○	●	○
Promoted	4	6	5	1	1	8	Nobuyuki Oouchi	8-dan	土居市太郎Honorary Meijin (deceased)	38	Tokyo	9	3	○	●	○	○	○	○	●		○	○	●	○	○
	22	8	0	0	0	9	Yuzo Maruta	9-dan	平野信助7-dan (deceased)	61	Nagano	5	7	●	●	○		●	○	●	●		○	●	●	○
Relegated	0	5	11	2	2	10	Yoshimasa Saeki	7-dan	Nobuhiko Sakaguchi 9-dan (deceased)	43	Tottori	4	8	●	○	○	○	●	●	○	●	●		●	●	●
	0	6	9	2	7	11	Yukio Miyasaka	7-dan	Masao Tsukada Honorary Judan (deceased)	50	Tokyo	7	5	●	○	●	○	●	○	●	○	○	○		○	●
	0	1	1	2	2	12	Teruichi Aono	7-dan	廣津久雄9-dan (deceased)	27	Shizuoka	7	5	○	●	●	○	●	○	○	●	○	○	●		○
	0	1	2	1	3	13	Kazuo Manabe	7-dan	Jirou Katou Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	28	Tokyo	5	7	●	○	●	○	●	○	●	●	●	○	○	●

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Hanamura	Takashima	Awaji	Tanaka	Satou	Nomoto	Kenmochi	Katou	Yoshida	Tamaru	Harada	Matsuda	Hasebe	Sakurai	Kitamura	Tanigawa	Maeda	Yamaguchi	Yasue	Yamaguchi
	16	11	1	0	0	1	Motoji Hanamura	9-dan	Yoshio Kimura14th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	62	Shizuoka	6	4		○	●							●	○	○	●		●		○	○	○
	0	8	3	6	1	2	Hiromitsu Takashima	7-dan	Kazukiyo Takashima 9-dan (deceased)	38	Osaka	6	4	●					○	●	●			○		○		○		○		○	●
	0	0	3	2	1	3	Hitoshige Awaji	6-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	30	Hyogo	7	3	○				○	○		○			○	●		○	●		○		●
	0	2	5	2	1	4	Kaishu Tanaka	7-dan	Souetsu Honma 8-dan (deceased)	33	Osaka	6	4					○	○				●		○		○	●	●	○	○		●
	0	0	6	2	1	5	Yoshinori Satou	6-dan	Hirofumi Serizawa 9-dan (deceased)	31	Tokyo	5	5			●	●			○		●		○				○		●	○	○	●
	0	0	4	3	4	6	Toratsugu Nomoto	6-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	35	Nagano	2	8		●	●	●			○			○	●	●	●	●						●
Demerit	0	0	17	1	5	7	Shouji Kenmochi	7-dan	(deceased) Mitsuyuki Aramaki 9-dan	45	Tokyo	1	9		○			●	●			●	●	●		●		●	●		●
Demerit	10	7	9	0	0	8	Hiroji Katou	8-dan	土居市太郎Honorary Meijin (deceased)	56	Aichi	2	8		○	●						●	●		●				●	●	●	○	●
	0	0	10	10	1	9	Toshikatsu Yoshida	7-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	46	Aichi	4	6					○		○	○		●		●	●		●	●	●	○
Promoted	0	0	2	4	2	10	Noboru Tamaru	6-dan	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	30	Nagano	9	1	○			○		●	○	○	○		○			○			○	○
△	10	10	9	0	0	11	Yasuo Harada	8-dan	Jirou Katou Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	57	Niigata	3	7	●	●	●		●	○	○			●		●				●			○
	10	12	7	0	0	12	Shigeyuki Matsuda	8-dan	Kingorou Kaneko 9-dan (deceased)	58	Tottori	6	4	●		○	●		○		○	○		○		●	●				○
	0	7	13	3	0	13	Hisao Hasebe	7-dan	大和久彪8-dan (deceased)	46	Chiba	8	2	○	●				○	○		○			○		○	○	●				○
	0	0	7	7	1	14	Noboru Sakurai	6-dan	Yasuo Harada 9-dan (deceased)	39	Gunma	4	6			●	●		○				●		○	●		○		●		○	●
	0	17	7	2	1	15	Masao Kitamura	8-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	45	Hokkaido	6	4	○	●	○	○	●		○		○				●	●						○
Promoted	0	0	1	1	2	16	Koji Tanigawa	6-dan	Masakazu Wakamatsu 8-dan	18	Hyogo	10	0				○			○	○	○		○		○				○	○	○	○
	0	0	1	2	2	17	Yuji Maeda	6-dan	Shouzou Kashu 7-dan	26	Kumamoto	4	6	●	●	●	●	○			○	○	●				○		●
Relegated	0	0	5	8	3	18	Hideo Yamaguchi	6-dan	Yasuo Harada 9-dan (deceased)	38	Hiroshima	2	8	●			●	●		○	○	●	●		●				●			●
Relegated	0	0	4	2	3	19	Terutaka Yasue	6-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	39	Tokyo	2	8	●	●	○		●			●			●			●		●		○		●
△→cleared	0	0	9	7	3	20	Chimine Yamaguchi	6-dan	飯塚勘一郎8-dan (deceased)	43	Ibaraki	7	3		○		○	○	○		○					●	○	●	●			○

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Taki	Kobayashi	Nada	Hirotsu	Tsubouchi	Oohara	Kikuchi	Kinoshita	Honma	Igarashi	Kawaguchi	Wakamatsu	Yamanaka	Sase	Fukusaki	Miyata	Azuma	Tomizawa	Date	Matsushita
	0	0	0	7	4	1	Seiichirou Taki	5-dan	Shigekazu Minamiguchi 9-dan (deceased)	31	Osaka	5	5		●	○				●			○		○		○		●	●		●
Promoted	0	0	0	2	2	2	Kenji Kobayashi	5-dan	Susumu Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	23	Kagawa	10	0	○		○				○	○		○	○	○		○	○			○
	16	7	2	2	0	3	Renshou Nada	9-dan	神田辰之助9-dan (deceased)	53	Tokushima	4	6	●	●		○		●	○					○			●	●			●	○
Demerit	2	15	5	3	0	4	Hisao Hirotsu	8-dan	花田長太郎9-dan (deceased)	57	Fukuoka	2	8			●		●						●	○	○		●	●	●	●		●
	0	0	0	8	2	5	Toshiyuki Tsubouchi	5-dan	Michio Ariyoshi 9-dan	31	Hyogo	7	3				○		○	●	○	○				○	○	●		●	○
	0	0	12	8	3	6	Eiji Oohara	7-dan	野村慶虎7-dan (deceased)	51	Kochi	5	5			○		●		○		○	●	●	○			●				●	○
	0	0	0	3	1	7	Tsuneo Kikuchi	5-dan	廣津久雄9-dan (deceased)	31	Shizuoka	6	4	○	●	●		○	●				○		●						○		○
	0	0	0	2	14	8	Akira Kinoshita	5-dan	村上真一8-dan (deceased)	40	Osaka	6	4		●			●				○	○			○			●	●	○	○	○
Relegated	0	15	11	3	0	9	Souetsu Honma	8-dan	Sutekichi Nakai 8-dan (deceased)	60	Osaka	1	9					●	●		●			●		○	●					●
	8	9	7	6	0	10	Toyoichi Igarashi	8-dan	関根金次郎13th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	55	Hokkaido	3	7	●	●				○	●	●			●		○	○		●			●
	0	0	0	3	10	11	Toshihiko Kawaguchi	5-dan	Seiichi Kobori 9-dan (deceased)	43	Kanagawa	6	4		●		○		○			○	○				●		●	○	●		○
	0	0	0	5	7	12	Masakazu Wakamatsu	5-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	40	Hyogo	5	5	●	●	●	●		●	○						○					○	○	○
Relegated	0	0	1	28	0	13	Kazumasa Yamanaka	7-dan	木見金治郎9-dan (deceased)	65	Okayama	0	10				●	●			●	●	●		●				●	●	●	●
	0	1	14	13	0	14	Yuji Sase	8-dan	石井秀吉7-dan (deceased)	61	Chiba	5	5	●	●			●				○	●	○				●	○			○	○
Promoted	0	0	0	1	1	15	Bungo Fukusaki	5-dan	Kaishu Tanaka 9-dan	20	Osaka	8	2		●	○	○	○	○								○		○	○	●		○
	0	0	0	1	6	16	Toshio Miyata	5-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	27	Akita	8	2	○		○	○				○		○	○		○	●	●		○
	0	0	0	1	3	17	Kazuo Azuma	5-dan	Kazukiyo Takashima 9-dan (deceased)	24	Nagasaki	7	3	○			○	○			○			●		○		●	●				○
△	0	0	15	7	0	18	Mikio Tomizawa	8-dan	山本樟郎8-dan (deceased)	60	Fukushima	5	5		●		○	●		●	●			○	●	○		○				○
△→cleared	0	0	0	10	11	19	Yasuo Date	6-dan	Shimei Okazaki 8-dan (deceased)	43	Osaka	6	4	○		○			○		●	○	○		●	○	●				●
Relegated	2	5	16	5	0	20	Tsutomu Matsushita	8-dan	土居市太郎Honorary Meijin (deceased)	67	Chiba	1	9			●	○		●	●	●			●	●		●	●		●

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Suzuki	Tanaka	Itou	Ono	Mushano	Nakada	Tosa	Sakai	Kosaka	Matsuura	Kiritani	Shiihashi	Tanabe	Kitamura	Ooshima	Iino	Arino	Kimura	Shimodaira	Aoki	Sakaguchi	Numa	Waki	永作	Seto	Kodama	Mori	Ikeda	Kobori	Minamiguchi	Moriyasu
Promoted	0	0	0	0	2	1	Teruhiko Suzuki	4-dan	廣津久雄9-dan (deceased)	25	Shizuoka	7	3		●	○		●			○		○						○			○				○	●							○
Promoted	0	0	0	0	4	2	Torahiko Tanaka	4-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	23	Osaka	9	1	○			○		●														○	○				○	○		○		○	○
Promoted	0	0	0	0	4	3	Hatasu Itou	4-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	29	Kyoto	7	3	●			○		●					○						○	○	○		○					○		●
	0	0	0	0	2	4	Shuuichi Ono	4-dan	建部和歌夫8-dan (deceased)	22	Tokyo	3	7		●	●			○	●	●			○									●		○			●					●
	0	0	0	0	2	5	Katsumi Mushano	4-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	26	Gunma	5	5	○								●					○		●	○			●				●	○				○	●
	0	0	0	0	4	6	Shoudou Nakada	4-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	28	Toyama	5	5		○	○	●					○		●	○	●		●					●											○
	0	0	0	0	4	7	Koji Tosa	4-dan	Shizuo Seino 8-dan (deceased)	25	Niigata	7	3				○				●	○		○				○	●		○			○	○							●
△	0	0	0	0	4	8	Junkichi Sakai	4-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	31	Hyogo	6	4	●			○			○				○			○	●				●					●				○		○
△	0	0	0	0	6	9	Noboru Kosaka	5-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	30	Hyogo	6	4					○	●	●						○		●							○	○	○	●					○
	0	0	0	0	4	10	Ryuuichi Matsuura	4-dan	Yuzo Maruta 9-dan (deceased)	28	Tokyo	6	4	●													○	○			○		●	○	●			○	○	●
	0	0	0	0	4	11	Hiroto Kiritani	4-dan	Kozo Masuda4th Meijin (merit era) (deceased)	30	Hiroshima	4	6			●	●		○	●	●						○					○				●	○			●
△	0	0	0	0	5	12	Kinji Shiihashi	4-dan	Tsutomu Matsushita 9-dan (deceased)	31	Tokyo	4	6						●							●		●				○	○	●	●				●				○	○
	0	0	0	0	15	13	Ichirou Tanabe	5-dan	Tsutomu Matsushita 9-dan (deceased)	41	Tokyo	7	3						○			●			○						○			○			○			●	○	○	●
△Demerit	0	0	0	0	19	14	Fumio Kitamura	5-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	59	Mie	3	7					●			●		●	●									●			●		●	○		○	○
	0	0	0	0	4	15	Eiji Ooshima	4-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	23	Shizuoka	7	3						○	●	○	○	●		○							○				●		○						○
△	0	0	0	0	5	16	Kenji Iino	4-dan	Shigeru Sekine 9-dan (deceased)	25	Tokyo	4	6	●				○		○											●				●	○	●		○		●	●
△Demerit	0	0	0	0	4	17	Yoshito Arino	4-dan	Yukio Shimodaira 8-dan (deceased)	31	Tokyo	2	8			●		●													○				○		●	●	●			●	●	●
△△	0	0	0	0	18	18	Yoshitaka Kimura	5-dan	Yoshio Kimura14th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	49	Tokyo	4	6			●				●			●			●			○	●			○			○	●		○
△Demerit	0	5	9	10	5	19	Yukio Shimodaira	7-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	55	Tokyo	3	7	●		●					○			●	●			●								○			●		○	●
	0	0	0	0	3	20	Kiyoshi Aoki	4-dan	Michihito Kumagai 9-dan (deceased)	32	Fukuoka	7	3		●		○	○	○				○		●		○				●									○				○
△Demerit	7	6	6	10	4	21	Nobuhiko Sakaguchi	9-dan	花田長太郎9-dan (deceased)	71	Hokkaido	3	7		●	●				●			●		○	●									●					○	●		○
	0	0	0	0	4	22	Haruo Numa	4-dan	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	31	Tokyo	6	4				●			●		●	○		○				○	●				○									○	○
	0	0	0	0	1	23	Kenji Waki	4-dan	Kazukiyo Takashima 9-dan (deceased)	19	Osaka	4	6	●								●		○			○	○	●		●	●								●				○
	0	0	0	0	1	24	永作芳也	4-dan	Keizou Katou 8-dan (deceased)	24	Ibaraki	6	4	○				○			○	●		●		●			○	○	○									●
	0	0	0	0	1	25	Hiroharu Seto	4-dan	Tatsuya Futakami 9-dan	23	Tokyo	6	4		●		○	●				○	●				○	●		○										○		○
Demerit	0	0	0	0	1	26	Kouichi Kodama	4-dan	Shimei Okazaki 8-dan (deceased)	29	Fukuoka	3	7		●	●							●		○		●		●	○	●	○									●
△	0	0	0	0	4	27	Nobuo Mori	4-dan	Shigekazu Minamiguchi 9-dan (deceased)	28	Ehime	6	4										○	○		○							●	●		○	○	●				○		●
△△	0	0	0	0	11	28	Shuuichi Ikeda	5-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	35	Aomori	4	6		●	○					●					●	●		○			●		○					○			●
△	2	3	16	4	3	29	Seiichi Kobori	8-dan	Kingorou Kaneko 9-dan (deceased)	68	Kanagawa	5	5					●		○						●	●		○	○		○						●		●	○
△△	2	2	11	9	4	30	Shigekazu Minamiguchi	8-dan	村上真一8-dan (deceased)	61	Kyoto	4	6		●		○	○			●	●			●	○				○				●	●
△Demerit	0	0	0	0	7	31	Masayuki Moriyasu	5-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	33	Okayama	2	8	●	●				●						●			●		○			●		●	●				○

○ Win● LossPromoted / Challenger / Relegated△ 1 demerit(s) / △△ 2 demerit(s) / △→cleared Demerit cleared / Demerit Received a demerit

Terms in class are the number of Junisen terms played plus terms as Meijin (Meijin does not appear in the standings). ○● in the table are this term's results within the same class.