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40th term Junisen

Jun 12, 1981 – Mar 26, 1982

Meijin of this termMakoto Nakahara

Meijin-sen challenged by this term's Class A winner40th term Meijin-sen (FY1982)Meijin Makoto Nakahara 対 Challenger者 Hifumi Katoh 4-3 (Won)

Shogi in FY1981

Makoto Nakahara wins 9 consecutive Meijin-sen titles
Osamu Nakamura wins all 10 games in Class C2
Hifumi Katoh is No. 1 in rating at FY end (1920)
Torahiko Tanaka (age 24 at FY end): best win rate among young players, 0.763 (45W-14L)
Torahiko Tanaka enters the rating top 10 for the first time (7th, 1828)
5-danのHatasu ItouがNHK CupのFinalに進出 (Hifumi Katohに敗れる)
Nobuyuki Oouchi drops out of the rating top 10 (6th→14th)
Osamu Katsuura drops out of the rating top 10 (8th→11th)
Koji Tanigawa promoted to Class A for the first time

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Kiriyama	Yonenaga	Katsuura	Ooyama	Katou	Naitou	Ishida	Moriyasu	Oouchi	Futakami
	6	2	3	1	3	1	Kiyozumi Kiriyama	8-dan	Toshiji Masuda 6-dan (deceased)	33	Nara	5	4		●	○	○	●	○	○	○	●	●
	10	2	3	1	2	2	Kunio Yonenaga	Kio	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	38	Yamanashi	5	4	○		○	●	●	●	○	●	○	○
Relegated	5	3	2	2	2	3	Osamu Katsuura	8-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	35	Hokkaido	2	7	●	●		●	●	●	○	●	●	○
	33	0	0	0	0	4	Yasuharu Ooyama	Osho	木見金治郎9-dan (deceased)	58	Okayama	5	4	●	○	○		●	○	○	●	●	○
Challenger	20	4	1	1	1	5	Hifumi Katoh	Judan	Shouji Kenmochi 9-dan (deceased)	41	Fukuoka	8	1	○	○	○	○		○	○	●	○	○
	10	6	3	1	2	6	Kunio Naitou	9-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	41	Hyogo	5	4	●	○	○	●	●		○	○	○	●
Relegated	3	2	7	1	1	7	Kazuo Ishida	8-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	34	Aichi	0	9	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●
	2	2	2	5	2	8	Hidemitsu Moriyasu	8-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	31	Okayama	7	2	●	○	○	○	○	●	○		○	○
	5	6	5	1	1	9	Nobuyuki Oouchi	8-dan	土居市太郎Honorary Meijin (deceased)	39	Tokyo	5	4	○	●	○	○	●	●	○	●		○
	24	3	1	1	1	10	Tatsuya Futakami	Kisei	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	49	Hokkaido	3	6	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	●	●

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Itaya	Kimura	Mori	Ariyoshi	Nishimura	Miyasaka	Aono	Satou	Maruta	Manabe	Serizawa	Tanigawa	Tamaru
	6	3	5	3	1	1	Susumu Itaya	8-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	40	Aichi	7	5		○	●	○	●	○	○	●	○	●	○	●	○
Relegated	1	3	9	2	4	2	Yoshinori Kimura	8-dan	Jirou Katou Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	46	Tokyo	1	11	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	●	●
Promoted	3	4	2	1	3	3	Keiji Mori	8-dan	Noboru Ootomo 9-dan (deceased)	35	Kochi	10	2	○	○		○	○	○	○	○	○	●	○	●	○
	12	9	2	1	1	4	Michio Ariyoshi	9-dan	Yasuharu Ooyama15th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	45	Okayama	4	8	●	○	●		○	●	●	○	●	●	○	●	●
	0	7	3	5	2	5	Kazuyoshi Nishimura	7-dan	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	39	Aichi	6	6	○	○	●	●		○	●	○	○	●	○	●	●
	0	7	9	2	7	6	Yukio Miyasaka	7-dan	Masao Tsukada Honorary Judan (deceased)	51	Tokyo	5	7	●	○	●	○	●		●	●	●	○	○	●	○
	0	2	1	2	2	7	Teruichi Aono	7-dan	廣津久雄9-dan (deceased)	28	Shizuoka	9	3	●	○	●	○	○	○		○	○	○	○	○	●
	2	12	6	1	3	8	Daigorou Satou	8-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	44	Hokkaido	6	6	○	○	●	●	●	○	●		○	●	○	●	○
	22	9	0	0	0	9	Yuzo Maruta	9-dan	平野信助7-dan (deceased)	62	Nagano	4	8	●	○	●	○	●	○	●	●		●	○	●	●
	0	2	2	1	3	10	Kazuo Manabe	7-dan	Jirou Katou Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	29	Tokyo	8	4	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	○	○		○	●	●
Relegated	2	19	1	1	1	11	Hirofumi Serizawa	8-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	44	Shizuoka	2	10	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		○	○
Promoted	0	1	1	1	2	12	Koji Tanigawa	7-dan	Masakazu Wakamatsu 8-dan	19	Hyogo	10	2	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	○	○	○	●		○
	0	1	2	4	2	13	Noboru Tamaru	7-dan	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	31	Nagano	6	6	●	○	●	○	○	●	○	●	○	○	●	●

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Saeki	Sekine	Hasebe	Awaji	Yamaguchi	Hanamura	Takashima	Tanaka	Matsuda	Kitamura	Satou	Yoshida	Sakurai	Maeda	Harada	Nomoto	Kobayashi	Fukusaki	Katou	Kenmochi
	0	5	12	2	2	1	Yoshimasa Saeki	7-dan	Nobuhiko Sakaguchi 9-dan (deceased)	44	Tottori	5	5			○				○		○	●			●		●	●		●		○
Demerit	3	13	8	1	2	2	Shigeru Sekine	8-dan	Tsugihiko Yamakawa 8-dan (deceased)	51	Tokyo	3	7				●						○	○		●	●		●	●	●	○	●
	0	7	14	3	0	3	Hisao Hasebe	7-dan	大和久彪8-dan (deceased)	47	Chiba	4	6	●			●		○		○		○	●			●	○		●		●
Promoted	0	0	4	2	1	4	Hitoshige Awaji	6-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	31	Hyogo	8	2		○	○		○	○	●	○	●			○						○		○
	0	0	10	7	3	5	Chimine Yamaguchi	7-dan	飯塚勘一郎8-dan (deceased)	44	Ibaraki	4	6				●		○	○		●			●		○	●		●			○
	16	11	2	0	0	6	Motoji Hanamura	9-dan	Yoshio Kimura14th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	63	Shizuoka	5	5			●	●	●			○			○		○		○			●	●	○
	0	8	4	6	1	7	Hiromitsu Takashima	7-dan	Kazukiyo Takashima 9-dan (deceased)	39	Osaka	5	5	●			○	●			●	●		○	○	○	○				●
	0	2	6	2	1	8	Kaishu Tanaka	7-dan	Souetsu Honma 8-dan (deceased)	34	Osaka	4	6			●	●		●	○			●		●			○	○			●	○
	10	12	8	0	0	9	Shigeyuki Matsuda	9-dan	Kingorou Kaneko 9-dan (deceased)	59	Tottori	5	5	●			○	○		○			●	○			●			●	●		○
	0	17	8	2	1	10	Masao Kitamura	8-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	46	Hokkaido	6	4	○	●	●					○	○					○	○	●	●		○
Demerit	0	0	7	2	1	11	Yoshinori Satou	6-dan	Hirofumi Serizawa 9-dan (deceased)	32	Tokyo	2	8		●	○			●	●		●			●	●			○		●	●
	0	0	11	10	1	12	Toshikatsu Yoshida	7-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	47	Aichi	4	6				●	○		●	○			○		●	●	○	●	●
	0	0	8	7	1	13	Noboru Sakurai	6-dan	Yasuo Harada 9-dan (deceased)	40	Gunma	6	4	○	○				●	●				○	○					○	●	●	○
	0	0	2	2	2	14	Yuji Maeda	6-dan	Shouzou Kashu 7-dan	27	Kumamoto	6	4		○	○		●		●		○	●		○			●	○				○
Relegated	10	10	10	0	0	15	Yasuo Harada	8-dan	Jirou Katou Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	58	Niigata	3	7	○		●		○	●		●		●		●		○			●		●
	0	0	5	3	4	16	Toratsugu Nomoto	6-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	36	Nagano	5	5	○	○						●		○	●	○		●			○	●	●
	0	0	1	2	2	17	Kenji Kobayashi	6-dan	Susumu Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	24	Kagawa	7	3		○	○		○				○	○		○	●		○	●		●
Promoted	0	0	1	1	1	18	Bungo Fukusaki	6-dan	Kaishu Tanaka 9-dan	21	Osaka	9	1	○	○		●		○	○		○		○		○			○	○
△→cleared	10	7	10	0	0	19	Hiroji Katou	8-dan	土居市太郎Honorary Meijin (deceased)	57	Aichi	8	2		●	○			○		○		●	○		○		○	○				○
Relegated	0	0	18	1	5	20	Shouji Kenmochi	7-dan	(deceased) Mitsuyuki Aramaki 9-dan	46	Tokyo	1	9	●	○		●	●	●		●	●				●	●					●

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Yamaguchi	Yasue	Miyata	Tsubouchi	Azuma	Kikuchi	Kinoshita	Kawaguchi	Date	Taki	Oohara	Wakamatsu	Sase	Tomizawa	Nada	Igarashi	Tanaka	Suzuki	Itou	Hirotsu
	0	0	5	9	3	1	Hideo Yamaguchi	6-dan	Yasuo Harada 9-dan (deceased)	39	Hiroshima	5	5			○			●	○		●	○	○	●				○		●	●
	0	0	4	3	3	2	Terutaka Yasue	6-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	40	Tokyo	6	4						●	○	●	○	○				○	○			●	○	●
	0	0	0	2	6	3	Toshio Miyata	5-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	28	Akita	6	4	●			○	○	○			○		○	●		○			●		●
	0	0	0	9	2	4	Toshiyuki Tsubouchi	5-dan	Michio Ariyoshi 9-dan	32	Hyogo	5	5			●					○	○	○	●	○			●	○		●	●
	0	0	0	2	3	5	Kazuo Azuma	5-dan	Kazukiyo Takashima 9-dan (deceased)	25	Nagasaki	7	3			●			○			○		○	○	●	○	○	○	●
	0	0	0	4	1	6	Tsuneo Kikuchi	5-dan	廣津久雄9-dan (deceased)	32	Shizuoka	5	5	○	○	●		●		○	●	○				○				●	●
Demerit	0	0	0	3	14	7	Akira Kinoshita	5-dan	村上真一8-dan (deceased)	41	Osaka	1	9	●	●				●		●		●	●	●	●		●					○
	0	0	0	4	10	8	Toshihiko Kawaguchi	5-dan	Seiichi Kobori 9-dan (deceased)	44	Kanagawa	5	5		○		●		○	○		○	●		○			●		●		●
Demerit	0	0	0	11	11	9	Yasuo Date	6-dan	Shimei Okazaki 8-dan (deceased)	44	Osaka	2	8	○	●	●	●	●	●		●			●					●				○
	0	0	0	8	4	10	Seiichirou Taki	6-dan	Shigekazu Minamiguchi 9-dan (deceased)	32	Osaka	4	6	●	●		●			○	○			●			●				●	○	○
	0	0	12	9	3	11	Eiji Oohara	7-dan	野村慶虎7-dan (deceased)	52	Kochi	4	6	●		●	○	●		○		○	○			●	●						●
	0	0	0	6	7	12	Masakazu Wakamatsu	5-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	41	Hyogo	6	4	○		○	●	●		○	●					○			○	●	○
	0	1	14	14	0	13	Yuji Sase	8-dan	石井秀吉7-dan (deceased)	62	Chiba	4	6					○	●	○				○	●		●	○		●	●		●
△→cleared	0	0	15	8	0	14	Mikio Tomizawa	8-dan	山本樟郎8-dan (deceased)	61	Fukushima	7	3		●	●		●					○	○		○		○	○		○		○
	16	7	2	3	0	15	Renshou Nada	9-dan	神田辰之助9-dan (deceased)	54	Tokushima	4	6		●		○	●		○	○					●	●		●	○	●
Demerit	8	9	7	7	0	16	Toyoichi Igarashi	8-dan	関根金次郎13th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	56	Hokkaido	3	7	●			●	●				○			●		●	○		●		●	○
Promoted	0	0	0	1	4	17	Torahiko Tanaka	5-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	24	Osaka	9	1			○		○	○		○				○	○		●	○			○	○
Promoted	0	0	0	1	2	18	Teruhiko Suzuki	5-dan	廣津久雄9-dan (deceased)	26	Shizuoka	8	2	○	○		○		○				○		●	○	●	○				○
	0	0	0	1	4	19	Hatasu Itou	5-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	30	Kyoto	5	5	○	●	○	○				○		●						○	●	●		●
Relegated	2	15	5	4	0	20	Hisao Hirotsu	8-dan	花田長太郎9-dan (deceased)	58	Fukuoka	4	6		○					●		●	●	○		○	●		●	●		○

	Terms A B1 B2 C1 C2					Rank	Name	Rank	Teacher	Age	Birthplace	W	L	Yamanaka	Tosa	Tanabe	Ooshima	Aoki	Sakai	Kosaka	Matsuura	Numa	永作	Seto	Mori	Mushano	Nakada	Kobori	Kiritani	Shiihashi	Iino	Kimura	Waki	Ikeda	Minamiguchi	Ono	Takahashi	Nakamura	Izumi	Yoda	Akira Shima	Minami	Tsukada	Kamiya	Kitamura	Shimodaira	Sakaguchi	Kodama	Arino	Moriyasu
	0	0	1	28	1	1	Kazumasa Yamanaka	7-dan	木見金治郎9-dan (deceased)	66	Okayama	2	8							●		●			○														●			●		●	●	○		●		●
	0	0	0	0	5	2	Koji Tosa	4-dan	Shizuo Seino 8-dan (deceased)	26	Niigata	6	4					○					●			●				●			○						○		○	○				●
	0	0	0	0	16	3	Ichirou Tanabe	5-dan	Tsutomu Matsushita 9-dan (deceased)	42	Tokyo	2	8				●							●		●													●	●	●			●	○			●	○
	0	0	0	0	5	4	Eiji Ooshima	4-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	24	Shizuoka	4	6			○															●			○	○		●			○	●		●	●				●
	0	0	0	0	4	5	Kiyoshi Aoki	4-dan	Michihito Kumagai 9-dan (deceased)	33	Fukuoka	1	9		●					●			●					●	●		○				●		●	●		●
	0	0	0	0	5	6	Junkichi Sakai	4-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	31	Hyogo	3	7							●					●			●				●							●	○			○				○		●	●
	0	0	0	0	7	7	Noboru Kosaka	5-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	31	Hyogo	7	3	○				○	○		○									●	○							●			○				○				●
	0	0	0	0	5	8	Ryuuichi Matsuura	4-dan	Yuzo Maruta 9-dan (deceased)	29	Tokyo	3	7							●								●		○						●	●	●		○	●			●		○
	0	0	0	0	5	9	Haruo Numa	4-dan	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	32	Tokyo	4	6	○									●			○	○		●			●						●			○	●		●
	0	0	0	0	2	10	永作芳也	4-dan	Keizou Katou 8-dan (deceased)	25	Ibaraki	6	4		○			○				○												○							○	●	●	●				●		○
	0	0	0	0	2	11	Hiroharu Seto	4-dan	Tatsuya Futakami 9-dan	24	Tokyo	5	5			○													●	○	●			○	●							●	○	○
	0	0	0	0	5	12	Nobuo Mori	4-dan	Shigekazu Minamiguchi 9-dan (deceased)	29	Ehime	5	5	●					○								●			●		○						●				●		○	○	○
	0	0	0	0	3	13	Katsumi Mushano	4-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	27	Gunma	8	2		○	○						●										○		○			●		○				○			○				○
	0	0	0	0	5	14	Shoudou Nakada	4-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	29	Toyama	5	5									●			○						●		●					●					●	○	○	○	○
	2	3	16	4	4	15	Seiichi Kobori	8-dan	Kingorou Kaneko 9-dan (deceased)	69	Kanagawa	7	3					○	○		○								○								●		○			●		○			○	●
	0	0	0	0	5	16	Hiroto Kiritani	4-dan	Kozo Masuda4th Meijin (merit era) (deceased)	31	Hiroshima	8	2					○				○		○				●			○				○		●						○				○		○
	0	0	0	0	6	17	Kinji Shiihashi	5-dan	Tsutomu Matsushita 9-dan (deceased)	32	Tokyo	5	5		○					○	●			●	○							○		○		●				●			●
	0	0	0	0	6	18	Kenji Iino	5-dan	Shigeru Sekine 9-dan (deceased)	26	Tokyo	5	5				○	●		●				○			○		●						○		●		●				○
	0	0	0	0	19	19	Yoshitaka Kimura	5-dan	Yoshio Kimura14th Lifetime Meijin (deceased)	50	Tokyo	3	7						○			○			●	●				●				○		●	●	●				●
	0	0	0	0	2	20	Kenji Waki	4-dan	Kazukiyo Takashima 9-dan (deceased)	20	Osaka	6	4		●												○								○	●	○			○		●	●					○	○
	0	0	0	0	12	21	Shuuichi Ikeda	5-dan	Motoji Hanamura 9-dan (deceased)	36	Aomori	2	8				●						●	●		●				●		●			○			●	○		●
	2	2	11	9	5	22	Shigekazu Minamiguchi	8-dan	村上真一8-dan (deceased)	62	Kyoto	4	6				●	○						○					●		●		●	●												○		●		○
	0	0	0	0	3	23	Shuuichi Ono	4-dan	建部和歌夫8-dan (deceased)	23	Tokyo	6	4								○									○		○	○							●	●				●		○		●	○
Promoted	0	0	0	0	1	24	Michio Takahashi	4-dan	Yuji Sase Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	21	Tokyo	9	1				○	○			○					○		○	○		○	○	●														○
Promoted	0	0	0	0	1	25	Osamu Nakamura	4-dan	Yoshimasa Saeki 9-dan	18	Tokyo	10	0					○		○	○	○			○		○					○		○													○			○
	0	0	0	0	1	26	Masaki Izumi	4-dan	Shigeru Sekine 9-dan (deceased)	20	Tokyo	4	6	○	●	○			○							●		●			○			●														●	●
	0	0	0	0	1	27	Yuuji Yoda	4-dan	Souetsu Honma 8-dan (deceased)	23	Tokyo	5	5			○	●	○	●		●									○			●			○									○				●
	0	0	0	0	1	28	Akira Shima	4-dan	Toshio Takayanagi Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	18	Tokyo	6	4		●	○	○			●	○	●	●											○		○										○
Promoted	0	0	0	0	1	29	Yoshikazu Minami	4-dan	Akira Kinoshita 7-dan (deceased)	18	Osaka	9	1	○	●							○	○	○	○			○				○	○																○
	0	0	0	0	1	30	Yasuaki Tsukada	4-dan	Nobuyuki Oouchi 9-dan (deceased)	16	Tokyo	5	5				○		●				○	●		●	○		●	○	●		○
	0	0	0	0	1	31	Hiroshi Kamiya	4-dan	廣津久雄9-dan (deceased)	20	Shizuoka	6	4	○		○	○				○	○	○	●	●		●	●
	0	0	0	0	20	32	Fumio Kitamura	5-dan	Shirou Itaya 9-dan (deceased)	60	Mie	5	5	○		●				●					●		●									○				●						○	○			○
	0	5	9	10	6	33	Yukio Shimodaira	7-dan	Touichi Watanabe Honorary 9-dan (deceased)	56	Tokyo	2	8	●	○						●				●	●	●								●						●				●					○
	7	6	6	10	5	34	Nobuhiko Sakaguchi	9-dan	花田長太郎9-dan (deceased)	72	Hokkaido	1	9						●								●	●	●							●	●	●							●			●	○
	0	0	0	0	2	35	Kouichi Kodama	4-dan	Shimei Okazaki 8-dan (deceased)	30	Fukuoka	8	2	○		○	○						○					○					●		○				○								○			●
	0	0	0	0	5	36	Yoshito Arino	4-dan	Yukio Shimodaira 8-dan (deceased)	32	Tokyo	5	5			●			○	○									●				●			○			○	○		●					●
	0	0	0	0	8	37	Masayuki Moriyasu	5-dan	藤内金吾8-dan (deceased)	34	Okayama	3	7	○					○				●			●									●	●		●							●	●		○

○ 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.