Yukari Yoshihara

Yukari Yoshihara
Full name	Yukari Umezawa (梅沢 由香里)
Kanji	吉原 由香里
Born	(1973-10-04) October 4, 1973 Tokyo, Japan
Residence	Tokyo, Japan
Teacher	Masao Kato
Turned pro	1996
Rank	6 dan
Affiliation	Nihon Ki-in

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 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, a manga about Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. In 2002 she was starring in her own videogame Umesawa Yukari no Igo Seminar (梅沢由香里の囲碁セミナー) on Xbox - a Go simulator. 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).

Titles

Title	Years Held
Current	3
Women's Kisei	2007, 2008, 2009

External links

• Yukari Umezawa's home page
• Sensei's Library's page on Yukari Umezawa
• A webpage about Umezawa at Nihon Ki-in's website
• A Nipponia article about Umezawa
• Yukari Umezawa manga at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
• Yukari Yoshihara manga at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
• Yukai Umezawa anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)