née is a Japanese Go professional.

Biography

Yukari Umezawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and graduated from Keio University in 1996. She first 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 is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Week ...

'', a manga about Go written by

Yumi Hotta is a Japanese manga artist. Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series '' Hikaru no Go'', which is widely credited for the late 90s-2000s boom of the game of go in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began wh ...

and illustrated by

Takeshi Obata is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer. He first gained international attention for '' Hikaru no Go'' (1998–2003) with Yumi Hotta, but is better known for '' Death Note'' (2003–2006) ...

. She also became a consultant for the

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

version of ''Hikaru no Go'' and hosted Go educational programs on

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

. Umezawa's

sensei Sensei, Seonsaeng, Tiên sinh or Xiansheng, corresponding to Chinese characters , is an East Asian honorific term shared in Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese; it is literally translated as "person born before another" or "one who c ...

was

Masao Kato Masao Kato Honorary Oza (加藤正夫, ''Katō Masao'', March 15, 1947 – December 30, 2004), also known as Kato Kensei (加藤剱正 ''Katō Kensei''), was a Japanese professional go player. A late bloomer, Kato won 46 titles, including the ...

. Umezawa is married to Shinya Yoshihara. They have a son (born 2011).

Titles

External links

Yukari Umezawa's home page

Sensei's Library's page on Yukari Umezawa

Yukari Umezawa manga
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Yukari Yoshihara manga
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Yukai Umezawa anime
at Media Arts Database 1973 births Japanese Go players Female Go players Living people People from Tachikawa Keio University alumni {{Japan-Go-bio-stub