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Kiyokazu Katsumata
Kiyokazu Katsumata
Native name	勝又清和
Born	March 21, 1969 (age 55)
Hometown	Zama, Kanagawa
Career
Achieved professional status	April 1, 1995 (aged 26)
Badge Number	215
Rank	7-dan
Teacher	Kazuo Ishida [ja] (9-dan)
Meijin class	Free
Ryūō class	6
Websites
	JSA profile page
	Kiyokazu Katsumata on Twitter

Kiyokazu Katsumata (勝又清和, Katsumata Kiyokazu, born March 21, 1969) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7-dan.

Early life, amateur shogi and apprenticeship

Katsumata was born on March 21, 1969, in Zama, Kanagawa.^[1] As a junior high school student, Katsumata won the 8th Junior High School Student Meijin Tournament [ja] in 1983.^[2]^[3] Later that same year, he was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a student of shogi professional Kazuo Ishida [ja].^[3] He was promoted to amateur professional 1-dan in 1986 and was awarded full professional status and the corresponding rank of 4-dan in April 1995.^[3]

The promotion history for Katsumata is as follows:^[4]

^ "Kishi Dētabēsu: Katsumata Kiyokazu" 棋士データベース: 勝又清和 [Professional Shogi Player Database: Kiyokazu Katsumata] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
^ "Chūgakusei Shōgi Meijinsen Rekidai Yūshōsha Ichiran" 中学生将棋名人戦歴代優勝者一覧 [Junior High School Student Meijin Tournament: List of Winners] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Kishi Meikan: Rokudan Katsumata Kiyokazu" 棋士名鑑: 六段勝又清和 [Player Directory: Kiyokazu Katsumata 6-dan]. 平成26年版将棋年鑑 2014 (Shogi Yearbook: Heisei 26 (2014) edition) (in Japanese). MyNabi Publishing/Japan Shogi Association. 2014. p. 569. ISBN 978-4-8399-5175-7. Retrieved April 2, 2020 – via Google Books.
^ "Kishi Dētabēsu: Katsumata Kiyokazu Shōdan Rireki" 棋士データベース: 勝又清和昇段履歴 [Professional Shogi Player Database: Kiyokazu Katsumata Promotion History] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved April 2, 2020.