is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1- dan. Her older sister

Kana The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most pr ...

is also a women's professional shogi player.

Early life

Kawamata () was born on April 28, 1996, in

Izumo, Shimane is a city in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Izumo is known for noodles and the Izumo-taisha Shinto shrine. History Izumo Taisha is the oldest Shinto shrine in Japan. In 2008, the holy area was open to the public from 1 August until August 17, ...

. She became interested in because her older brother and older sister both played the game. In August 2011 when she was a third-grade junior high school student, Satomi finished third in the 3rd . The following year, she was accepted into

Japan Shogi Association The , or JSA, is the primary organizing body for professional shogi in Japan. The JSA sets the professional calendar, negotiates sponsorship and media promotion deals, helps organize tournaments and title matches, publishes shogi-related materi ...

(JSA) Kansai Branch's training group system. She was awarded the provisional women's professional rank of 3-kyū in February 2016 under the sponsorship of shogi professional , and obtained the rank of women's professional 2-kyū and full women's professional status two months later in April 2016.

Women's shogi professional

Promotion history

Kawamata's promotion history is as follows: * 3-

kyū is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, levels or degrees of proficiency or experience. In Mandarin Ch ...

: February 22, 2016 * 2-

: April 27, 2016 * 1-kyū: July 4, 2016 * 1-dan: April 1, 2017 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.

Personal life

Kawamata and her sister

are the third pair of sisters to be awarded women's professional shogi status by the JSA. At the end of March 2022, the Japan Shogi Association announced that Kawamata had gotten married and would be no longer competing under her

maiden name When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also u ...

"Satomi".

References

External links

* ShogiHub
Satomi, Saki
Japanese shogi players Living people Women's professional shogi players Professional shogi players from Shimane Prefecture People from Shimane Prefecture 1996 births {{Shogi-stub