Meijin (shogi)

This article is about a title in shogi. For a title in go, see Meijin (go). For a title in renju, see Meijin (renju). For the Yasunari Kawabata novel, see The Master of Go.
Masao Tsukada (right) playing against Yasuharu Ōyama in 1948 for the Meijin title.

Meijin (名人) is one of the eight titles in Japanese professional shogi, and is the most prestigious title, along with Ryūō. The word meijin (名 mei "excellent, artful", 人 jin "person") refers to a highly skilled master of a certain field (the various arts found in traditional Japanese culture, such as the Japanese tea ceremony, go, competitive karuta, rakugo, budō).[1]

  1. ^ There is also an unrelated Amateur Meijin title that is awarded each year to the winner of the Amateur Meijin Tournament.