Ichiyo Shimizu
Ichiyo Shimizu (清水市代, Shimizu Ichiyo, born January 9, 1969) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 7-dan.[1][2] She became the first women's professional to be promoted to the rank of women's 6-dan and obtain 40 women titles.[3][4] She is also the second women's professional to win 600 official games.[5]
JSA director
In May 2017, Shimizu became the first women to be elected as an executive director to the Japan Shogi Association's (JSA) board of directors.[6] She was re-elected to a second two-year term in June 2019.[7]
Honors
Shimizu has received several awards in recognition of her accomplishments in shogi and contributions to the Japanese society.[8]
- 1996, June: Minister of Education Award
- 1997, February: Tokyo Resident Culture Honor Award (Awarded by the Governor of Tokyo in recognition of cultural achievements)
- 2000, November: Higashimurayama,[9] Tokyo Resident Honor Award
- 2008, August: Kurashiki Shogi Culture Honor Award
- 2009: 25 Years Service Award (Awarded by the JSA in recognition of being an active professional for twenty-five years)
Title match records
The following tables are the summary of her achievements.
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| Year | Titles | Other Titles | Shogi Award | Notes[3][4] | ||||||
| 女王 (Queen) | 女流王将 (Women King) | 女流王位 (Women Monarch) | 清麗 (Seirei) | 女流王座 (Women Throne) | 倉敷藤花 (Kurashiki Toka Cup) | 女流名人 (Women Grand Master) | ||||
| 1985 | － | (Season 8) | － | － | － | － | (Season 12) | Professional player debut | ||
| 1986 | － | － | － | － | － | |||||
| 1987 | － | － | － | － | － | Hiroe Nakai ooo | LOT[10] | ★WPA | ||
| 1988 | － | － | － | － | － | Hiroe Nakai xooxx | ||||
| 1989 | － | － | － | － | － | Hiroe Nakai ooo | ||||
| 1990 | － | (Season 1) | － | － | － | Naoko Hayashiba xxox | ||||
| 1991 | － | Naoko Hayashiba oxo | － | － | － | LOT | ★WPA | |||
| 1992 | － | ↓ | － | － | － | Hiroe Nakai xxx | LOT | |||
| 1993 | － | Naoko Hayashiba oo | Hiroe Nakai oxoo | － | － | <Season 1> | LOT | ★WPA | ||
| 1994 | － | Haruko Saida xx | Hiroe Nakai ooo | － | － | Naoko Hayashiba oo | Hiroe Nakai ooo | ★WPA | ||
| 1995 | － | Rieko Yauchi ooo | － | － | Haruko Saida oxo | Hiroe Nakai ooo | ★WPA | Promoted to 5 dan | ||
| Year | 女王 (Queen) | 女流王将 (Women King) | 女流王位 (Women Monarch) | 清麗 (Seirei) | 女流王座 (Women Throne) | 倉敷藤花 (Kurashiki Toka Cup) | 女流名人 (Women Grand Master) | Other Titles |
Shogi Award | Notes |
| 1996 | － | (Season 18) Hiroe Nakai oxxoo Dominated 4 titles | <Season 7> Sachio Ishibashi ooxo Maintained 4 titles | － | － | <Season 4> Sayuri Kimura oo Maintained 4 titles | <Season 23> Hiroe Nakai xoxoo Maintained 4 titles | ★WPA SP | Dominated 4 titles Obtained lifetime title | |
| 1997 | － | Haruko Saida oxoxx | Rieko Yauchi oxxox | － | － | Hiroe Nakai oxo | Hiroe Nakai ooo | LOT Kajima Cup | ★WPA | |
| 1998 | － | Haruko Saida ooo | Rieko Yauchi xooo Dominated 4 titles | － | － | Ryoko Chiba oxo Maintained 4 titles | Ryoko Chiba ooxo Maintained 4 titles | ★WPA | Dominated 4 titles Obtained 2 lifetime titles in this year | |
| 1999 | － | Sachio Ishibashi ooxxx | Ryoko Chiba ooxo | － | － | Rieko Yauchi oo | Hiroe Nakai xxx | Kajima Cup | ||
| 2000 | － | Sachio Ishibashi oxoo | Ryoko Chiba ooo | － | － | Rieko Yauchi oo | LOT | ★WMVP | 4th lifetime title Promoted to 6-dan (1st female player to obtain this rank) | |
| 2001 | － | Rieko Yauchi xooo | Hiroe Nakai xxooo | － | － | Hiroe Nakai xox | WPA | |||
| 2002 | － | Hiroe Nakai xxx | Sachio Ishibashi ooo | － | ||||||
| 2003 | － | Hiroe Nakai xooo | － | － | Hiroe Nakai oxoo | LOT | ★WMVP | |||
| 2004 | － | Rieko Yauchi ooo | － | － | Hiroe Nakai oxo | Ryoko Chiba oxoo | Kajima Cup | ★WMVP | ||
| 2005 | － | Hiroe Nakai oxoo | － | － | Rieko Yauchi oo | Rieko Yauchi xxx | ||||
| 2006 | － | Sachio Ishibashi ooxo | － | － | Haruko Saida xox | |||||
| 2007 | － | Ryoko Chiba xooo | Sachio Ishibashi xoxox | － | － | Haruko Saida xoo | ★WMVP | |||
| 2008 | (Season 1) | Rieko Yauchi ooxo | Sachio Ishibashi xxoox | － | － | Kana Satomi xx | Rieko Yauchi xooxo | ★WMVP | ||
| 2009 | Hatsumi Ueda oo | Sachio Ishibashi xooxo | － | － | Kana Satomi xxx | WPA | ||||
| 2010 | Kana Satomi oxx | Tomomi Kai xxox | － | － | Kana Satomi xxx | WPPMG (30 Games) | ||||
| 2011 | Tomomi Kai xxoox | － | (Season 1) Momoko Kato xoxox | Kana Satomi xx | Kana Satomi oxxx | Daiwa Securities Cup | WPA WPPMG (55 games) | Annual winning record (40wins) | ||
| 2012 | － | |||||||||
| 2013 | － | |||||||||
| 2014 | Manao Kagawa oxx | Tomomi Kai soxxx | － | Kana Satomi xxx | WPPMG (37 Games) | |||||
| 2015 | － | Kana Satomi oxxox | ||||||||
| 2016 | － | |||||||||
| 2017 | － | |||||||||
| 2018 | － | Kana Satomi xxx | Oldest finalist (challenger to the defending champion) in women titles | |||||||
| 2019 | (Season 1) | |||||||||
| Year | 女王 (Queen) | 女流王将 (Women King) | 女流王位 (Women Monarch) | 清麗 (Seirei) | 女流王座 (Women Throne) | 倉敷藤花 (Kurashiki Toka Cup) | 女流名人 (Women Grand Master) | Other Titles |
Shogi Award | Notes |
| Total | － | 15 times as finalist Obtained 9 times | 20 times as finalist Obtained 14 times | － | 2 times as finalist | 14 times as finalist Obtained 10 times | 20 times as finalist Obtained 10 times | 11 times | ||
| 71 times as finalist, obtained title for 43 times (Japan record)[3][4] | ||||||||||
| Title | Years | Number of times overall |
|---|---|---|
| 女流名人 (Women Grand Master) | 1987, 1989, 1994–98, 2003–04, 2008 | 10 |
| 女流王将 (Women King) | 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000–01, 2007–09 | 9 |
| 女流王位 (Women Monarch) | 1993–96, 1998–2006, 2009 | 14 (Japan record)[3][4] |
| Kurashiki Tōka Cup | 1994–2000, 2004–05, 2007 | 10 (Japan record)[3][4] |
References and notes
- "Joryū Kishi Dētabēsu: Shimizu Ichiyo" 女流棋士データベース: 清水市代 [Women's Professional Shogi Player Database: Ichiyo Shimizu] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
- She is the first female player to obtain this rank
- "Ichiyo Shimizu at ShogiHub". Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- Official JSA Profile
- Yamamura, Hideki (November 28, 2016). "Shimizu Ichiyo Rokudan ga Roppyakushō" 清水市代女流六段が600勝 [Ichiyo Shimizu 6-dan wins 600th official game]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved January 12, 2018.
- "Shimizu Joryū Rokudan, Shōgi Renmei no Jōmu Riji ni, Josei Hatsu" 清水女流六段, 将棋連盟の常務理事に 女性初 [Women's professional Shimizu 6-dan, first women to be elected as executive director to shogi association board]. Chunichi Shimbun (in Japanese). May 30, 2017. Archived from the original on January 12, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
- "Nihon Shōgi Renmei Shinyakuin no Oshirase" 日本将棋連盟新役員のお知らせ [Announcement of New Japan Shogi Association Board Members] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. June 7, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
- "Joryū Kishi Dētabēsu: Shimizu Ichiyo Sonota Taishō" 女流棋士データベース: 清水市代 その他表彰 [Women's Professional Shogi Player Database: Ichiyo Shimizu Other Awards] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
- City in western Tokyo
- Ladies Open Tournament
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