The Kansai Ki-in (?西棋院, i.e., Kansai Go Association) is an organization for the game of Go in Japan, which was founded in 1950 at Osaka . It is not as large as the Nihon Ki-in based in Tokyo , but it also gives diplomas to strong players and maintain their professional player system as the Nihon Ki-in does. They also hire professional players as same as the Nihon Ki-in (with different rules and age restrictions).

Famous players at Kansai Ki-in [ change | change source ]

• Daisuke Murakawa
• Dogen Handa (1915-1974)
• Hideyuki Sakai
• Manfred Wimmer (born in Austria )
• Satoshi Yuki
• Shoji Hashimoto (1935-2009)
• Utaro Hashimoto (1907-1994, founder of Kansai Ki-in)

Female players [ change | change source ]

• Kazuko Konishi
• Mika Yoshida

Related pages [ change | change source ]

• All Japan Student Go Federation
• American Go Association
• British Go Association

Other websites [ change | change source ]

• Official Website of Kansai Ki-in Archived 2020-12-06 at the Wayback Machine

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