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The Women's Kisei (女流棋聖戦, Joryū Kisei-sen) is a Japanese Go competition.

Outline

The Women's Kisei is sponsored by NTT DoCoMo, and uses a hayago format, of 30 seconds per move and a 10x1 minute byo-yomi,^[1] unlike the Kisei, which uses an eight-hour thinking time format. The winner's purse is 5,000,000 Yen ($38,000).^[1]

Past winners

Winners in chronological order:

	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1.	1998	Kobayashi Izumi	2–0	Kobayashi Chizu
2.	1999	Kobayashi Izumi	2–1	Sugiuchi Kazuko
3.	2000	Chinen Kaori	2–0	Kobayashi Izumi
4.	2001		2–1	Kato Reiko
5.	2002		2–1	Ogawa Tomoko
6.	2003		2–1	Kato Reiko
7.	2004	Mannami Kana	2–1	Chinen Kaori
8.	2005	Chinen Kaori	2–0	Mannami Kana
9.	2006	Mannami Kana	2–1	Chinen Kaori
10.	2007	Umezawa Yukari	2–1	Mannami Kana
11.	2008		2–0	Chiaki Mukai
12.	2009		2–1	Kato Reiko
13.	2010	Xie Yimin	2–0	Umezawa Yukari
14.	2011	Xie Yimin	2–0	Umezawa Yukari
15.	2012	Aoki Kikuyo	2–1	Xie Yimin
16.	2013	Xie Yimin	2–0	Aoki Kikuyo
17.	2014		2–0	Aoki Kikuyo
18.	2015		2–0	Konishi Kazuko
19.	2016		2–0	Yoshihara (nee Umezawa) Yukari
20.	2017		2–1	Nyu Eiko
21.	2018	Ueno Asami	2–0	Xie Yimin
22.	2019	Ueno Asami	2–0	Fujisawa Rina
23.	2020	Suzuki Ayumi	2–0	Ueno Asami
24.	2021	Ueno Asami	2–1	Suzuki Ayumi
25.	2022	Ueno Asami	2–0	Suzuki Ayumi
26.	2023	Nakamura Sumire	2–1^[2]^[3]	Ueno Asami
27.	2024	Ueno Risa	2–1^[4]	Nakamura Sumire

Winners by number of titles:

Player	Titles	Years Held
Xie Yimin	7	2010–2011, 2013–2017
Chinen Kaori	5	2000–2003, 2005
Ueno Asami	4	2018–2019, 2021–2022
Yoshihara Yukari	3	2007–2009
Kobayashi Izumi	2	1998–1999
Mannami Kana	2	2004, 2006
Aoki Kikuyo	1	2012
Suzuki Ayumi	1	2020
Nakamura Sumire	1	2023
Ueno Risa	1	2024

References

^ ^a ^b "囲碁の日本棋院". Nihon Ki-in (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-02-09.
^ "The Power Report: Catching up on 2023 news; Kim wins Japan-Korea match; Sumire wins first title". American Go E-Journal. 2023-08-23.
^ Takeuchi, Ryo (2023-02-06). "Teen Go prodigy Nakamura becomes youngest in Japan to capture title". Mainichi Shimbun.
^ "囲碁仲邑菫女流棋聖韓国移籍前最後のタイトル戦初防衛ならず". NHK News (in Japanese). 2024-02-05.

External links

Nihon Ki-in archive (in Japanese)

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[:0-1] "囲碁の日本棋院". Nihon Ki-in (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-02-09.

[2] "The Power Report: Catching up on 2023 news; Kim wins Japan-Korea match; Sumire wins first title". American Go E-Journal. 2023-08-23.

[3] Takeuchi, Ryo (2023-02-06). "Teen Go prodigy Nakamura becomes youngest in Japan to capture title". Mainichi Shimbun.

[4] "囲碁仲邑菫女流棋聖韓国移籍前最後のタイトル戦初防衛ならず". NHK News (in Japanese). 2024-02-05.

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