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Full name
  
Yukari Yoshihara

Role
  
Go professional

Turned pro
  
1996

Name
  
Yukari Yoshihara

Affiliation
  
Rank
  
6 dan

Teacher
  
Kanji
  
吉原 由香里

Residence
  

Yukari Yoshihara httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Born
  
October 4, 1973 (age 51) Tokyo, Japan (
1973-10-04
)

Spouse
  

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

Yukari Yoshihara Wikipedia


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