Full name Yukari Yoshihara Role Go professional Turned pro 1996 Name Yukari Yoshihara Affiliation Nihon Ki-in | Rank 6 dan Teacher Masao Kato Kanji 吉原 由香里 Residence Tokyo, Japan | |
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Born October 4, 1973 (age 50)
Tokyo, Japan ( 1973-10-04 ) Spouse Shinya Yoshihara (m. 2002) | ||
Yukari Yoshihara (吉原 由香里, Yoshihara Yukari, born October 4, 1973) née Yukari Umezawa (梅沢 由香里, Umezawa Yukari) is a Japanese Go professional.
Biography
Yukari Umezawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and graduated from Keio University in 1996. She firstly played Go at the age of 6 and she became a professional Go player in 1996. She then attained the rank of 5-dan in 2002 at the age of 29, and was married in the same year. Umezawa supervised the production of Hikaru no Go, a manga about Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. She also became a consultant for the anime version of Hikaru no Go and hosted Go educational programs on NHK. Umezawa's sensei was Masao Kato. Umezawa is married to Shinya Yoshihara. They have a son (born 2011).
References
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