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| title="Eio" style="background-color:#" |Term 9<br />[[Takumi Ito]] |
| title="Eio" style="background-color:#" |Term 9<br />[[Takumi Ito]] |
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| title="Meijin" style="background-color:#" |Term 82<br />[[Sota |
| title="Meijin" style="background-color:#" |Term 82<br />[[Sota Fujii]] |
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| title="Kisei" style="background-color:#CFE5AE" |Term 95<br />[[Sota Fujii]] |
| title="Kisei" style="background-color:#CFE5AE" |Term 95<br />[[Sota Fujii]] |
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| title="Oi" style="background-color:#" |Term 65<br />[[Sota Fujii|S. Fujii]] or [[Akira Watanabe|A. Watanabe]] |
| title="Oi" style="background-color:#" |Term 65<br />[[Sota Fujii|S. Fujii]] or [[Akira Watanabe|A. Watanabe]] |
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Revision as of 19:12, 10 July 2024
This page lists all players who have held one of eight professional titles, from the formation of the Meijin title in 1937 (Showa 12) to the present.
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2015 (Eio-sen formed) - present
| Season | Eio-sen Apr - Jun |
Meijin-sen Apr - Jun |
Kisei-sen Jun - Jul |
Oi-sen Jul - Sep |
Oza-sen Sep - Oct |
Ryuo-sen Oct - Dec |
Osho-sen Jan - Mar |
Kio-sen Feb - Mar |
Notes |
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| Eio | Meijin | Kisei | Oi | Oza | Ryuo | Osho | Kio | ||
| 2024 (Reiwa 6) |
Term 9 Takumi Ito |
Term 82 Sota Fujii |
Term 95 Sota Fujii |
Term 65 S. Fujii or A. Watanabe |
Fujii loses a title for the first time (Eio), ending his 8-crown monopoly. Fujii qualifies for his first lifetime title, a Lifetime KiseiY | ||||
| 2023 (Reiwa 5) |
Term 8 Sota Fujii |
Term 81 Sota Fujii |
Term 94 Sota Fujii |
Term 64 Sota Fujii |
Term 71 Sota Fujii |
Term 36 Sota Fujii |
Term 73 Sota Fujii |
Term 49 Sota Fujii |
Fujii becomes 7-crownY/Ryuo - MeijinY(5th)/8-crownF Watanabe loses all titles after 19 years |
| 2022 (Reiwa 4) |
Sota Fujii | Watanabe Akira | Sota Fujii | Sota Fujii | Takuya Nagase | Sota Fujii | Sota Fujii | Sota Fujii | Tanigawa is crowned 17th Lifetime Meijin |
| 2021 (Reiwa 3) |
Sota Fujii | Watanabe Akira | Sota Fujii | Sota Fujii | Takuya Nagase | Sota Fujii | Sota Fujii | Watanabe Akira | Fujii defends his first titleY/becomes 3-crownY/4-crownY/5-crownY |
| 2020 (Reiwa 2) |
Masayuki Toyoshima | Watanabe Akira | Sota FujiiF | Sota Fujii | Takuya Nagase | Masayuki Toyoshima | Watanabe Akira | Watanabe Akira | Delayed start of Meijin-sen and Eio-sen (from June) Fujii wins his first titleY(17 years 11 months)/becomes 2-crownY |
| 2019 (Reiwa 1) |
Takuya NagaseF | Masayuki Toyoshima | Watanabe Akira | Kazuki KimuraF | Takuya Nagase | Masayuki Toyoshima | Watanabe Akira | Watanabe Akira | Kimura wins his first titleO(46 years old) Toyoshima becomes Ryuo - Meijin (4th) |
| 2018 (Heisei 30) |
Term 3 Taichi TakamiF |
Amahiko Sato | Masayuki ToyoshimaF | Masayuki Toyoshima | Shintaro SaitoF | Akihito Hirose | Watanabe Akira | Watanabe Akira | Eio-sen is promoted to title status 8 different players hold 8 titles (at end of Kisei-sen) Habu loses all titles after 27 years and 9 months |
| 2017 (Heisei 29) |
－ | Amahiko Sato | Yoshiharu Habu | Tatsuya SugaiF | Taichi NakamuraF | Yoshiharu HabuL | Toshiaki Kubo | Watanabe Akira | Habu wins his 99th title and qualifies for Lifetime 7-crownF |
| 2016 (Heisei 28) |
(Term 2) (Amahiko Sato) |
Amahiko SatoF | Yoshiharu Habu | Yoshiharu Habu | Yoshiharu Habu | Watanabe Akira | Toshiaki Kubo | Watanabe AkiraL | Ryuo challenger changed |
| 2015 (Heisei 27) |
(Term 1) (Takayuki Yamasaki) |
Term 73 Yoshiharu Habu |
Term 86 Yoshiharu Habu |
Term 56 Yoshiharu Habu |
Term 63 Yoshiharu Habu |
Term 28 Watanabe Akira |
Term 65 Masataka Goda |
Term 41 Watanabe Akira |
Eio-sen is formed as a non-title championship |
| Season | Eio | Meijin | Kisei | Oi | Oza | Ryuo | Osho | Kio | Notes |
| Eio-sen Apr - Jun |
Meijin-sen Apr - Jun |
Kisei-sen Jun - Jul |
Oi-sen Jul - Sep |
Oza-sen Sep - Oct |
Ryuo-sen Oct - Dec |
Osho-sen Jan - Mar |
Kio-sen Feb - Mar |
1988 (Ryuo-sen formed) - 2014
1962 (10-dan & Kisei formed) - 1987
1937 (Meijin-sen established) - 1961
| Season | Meijin-sen Apr - Jun |
Oi-sen Jul - Sep |
Oza-sen Sep - Oct |
9-dan Oct - Dec |
Osho-sen Jan - Mar |
Notes | |
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| Meijin | Oi | (Oza) | 9-dan | Osho | |||
| 1961 (Showa 36) |
Term 20 Yasuharu Oyama |
Term 2 Yasuharu Oyama |
(Term 9) (Soetsu Honma) |
Term 12 Yasuharu Oyama |
Term 11 Yasuharu Oyama |
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| 1960 (Showa 35) |
Yasuharu Oyama | Term 1 Yasuharu Oyama |
(Yuzo Maruta) | Yasuharu OyamaT | Yasuharu Oyama | Fast Shogi Oi-sen is elevated to title status Oyama becomes 4-crownF | |
| 1959 (Showa 34) |
Yasuharu Oyama | (Term 6) (Hifumi Kato) |
(Yasuharu Oyama) | Yasuharu Oyama | Yasuharu Oyama | Oyama becomes 3-crown | |
| 1958 (Showa 33) |
Kozo MasudaL | (Rensho Nada) | (Masao Tsukada) | Yasuharu Oyama | Yasuharu Oyama | ||
| 1957 (Showa 32) |
Kozo Masuda | (Yasuharu Oyama) | (Shigeyuki Matsuda) | Kozo Masuda | Yasuharu Oyama | Masuda becomes 3-crownF | |
| 1956 (Showa 31) |
Yasuharu OyamaT | (Yasuharu Oyama) | (Seiichi Kobori) | Term 7 Kozo Masuda |
Kozo Masuda | Meijin participates in the All-Japan Championship which is renamed 9-dan | |
| 1955 (Showa 30) |
Yasuharu Oyama | (Yasuharu Oyama) | (Yasuharu Oyama) | 9-dan | (Champion) | Kozo Masuda | |
| Term 6 Masao TsukadaL |
(Term 8) (Yasuharu Oyama) | ||||||
| 1954 (Showa 29) |
Yasuharu Oyama | (Term 1) (Yasuharu Oyama) |
(Yasuharu Oyama) | Masao TsukadaT | (Masao Tsukada) | Yasuharu Oyama | The Fast Shogi Oi-sen is established as a non-title championship |
| 1953 (Showa 28) |
Yasuharu Oyama | － | (Term 1) (Yasuharu Oyama) |
Masao Tsukada | (Yasuharu Oyama) | Yasuharu Oyama | Oza-sen is established as a non-title championship |
| 1952 (Showa 27) |
Yasuharu Oyama | － | － | Masao Tsukada | (Masao Tsukada) | Yasuharu Oyama | Kimura is crowned 14th Lifetime Meijin |
| 1951 (Showa 26) |
Kimura YoshioL | － | － | Yasuharu Oyama | (Yasuharu Oyama) | Term 1 Kozo MasudaF |
Osho-sen is elevated to title status Jinya incident |
| 1950 (Showa 25) |
Kimura Yoshio | － | － | Term 1 Yasuharu OyamaF |
(Yasuharu Oyama) | (Term 1) (Kimura Yoshio) |
9-dan is established as a title within All-Japan Championship Osho-sen is established as a non-title championship |
| 1949 (Showa 24) |
Kimura Yoshio | － | － | － | (Kiyoshi Hagiwara) | － | |
| 1948 (Showa 23) |
Masao Tsukada | － | － | － | (Term 1) (Kimura Yoshio) |
－ | All-Japan Championship established |
| 1947 (Showa 22) |
Masao TsukadaF | － | － | － | － | Ranking League begins Meijin-sen now held yearly | |
| 1946 (Showa 21) |
Kimura YoshioT | － | － | － | － | ||
| 1945 (Showa 20) |
－ | － | － | － | Meijin-sen not held due to war | ||
| 1944 (Showa 19) |
Kimura Yoshio | － | － | － | － | Kimura defends title as there is no challenger | |
| 1943 (Showa 18) |
－ | － | － | － | |||
| 1942 (Showa 17) |
Kimura Yoshio | － | － | － | － | ||
| 1941 (Showa 16) |
－ | － | － | － | |||
| 1940 (Showa 15) |
Kimura Yoshio | － | － | － | － | ||
| 1939 (Showa 14) |
－ | － | － | － | |||
| 1938 (Showa 13) |
Term 1 Kimura YoshioF |
－ | － | － | － | Meijin-sen now held bienially (challenger selected every 2 years) | |
| 1937 (Showa 12) |
－ | － | － | － | Meijin-sen established, no title match held due to wide margin | ||
| Season | Meijin | Oi | (Oza) | 9-dan | (Champion) | Osho | Notes |
| Meijin-sen Apr - Jun |
Oi-sen Jul - Sep |
Oza-sen Sep - Oct |
9-dan/All-Japan Championship Oct - Dec |
Osho-sen Jan - Mar | |||