Honorary Go Titles

Professional Go players in Japan are given the title of "Honorary" title holder if they hold a title for a straight five or more years. Below is a list of the honorary title holders and which title they are honored for.

Honorary Kiseis

Fujisawa Hideyuki won the Kisei 6 times in a row from 1976 to 1982.

Kobayashi Koichi won the Kisei 8 times in a row from 1986 to 1993.

Honorary Meijins

Cho Chikun won the Meijin 5 times in a row from 1980 to 1984.

Kobayashi Koichi won the Meijin 7 times in a row from 1988 to 1994.

Honorary Honinbos

Takagawa Kaku won the Honinbo 9 times in a row from 1952 to 1960.

Sakata Eio won the Honinbo 7 times in a row from 1961 to 1967.

Ishida Yoshio won the Honinbo 5 times in a row from 1971 to 1975.

Cho Chikun won the Honinbo 10 times in a row from 1989 to 1998.

Honorary Judans

There have been no Honorary Judans.

Honorary Tengens

Rin Kaiho won the Tengen 5 times in a row from 1988 to 1993.

Honorary Ozas

Kato Masao won the Oza 8 times in a row from 1982 to 1989.

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Honorary_Go_Titles

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