- Yukari Yoshihara
Infobox Go player
playername=Yukari Yoshihara
fullname=Yukari Yoshihara
kanji=吉原 由香里
dateofbirth=birth date and age|1973|10|4
cityofbirth=flagicon|JapanTokyo
countryofbirth=Japan
residence=flagicon|JapanTokyo ,Japan
teacher=Masao Kato
turnedpro=1996
rank=5 dan
affiliation=Nihon Ki-in nihongo|Yukari Yoshihara|吉原 由香里|"Yoshihara Yukari"|extra=bornOctober 4 ,1973 née nihongo|Yukari Umezawa|梅沢 由香里|"Umezawa Yukari" is aJapan ese Go professional.Biography
Umezawa 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 ", amanga about Go written byYumi Hotta and illustrated byTakeshi Obata . She also became a consultant for theanime version of "Hikaru no Go" and hosted Go educational programs onNHK . Umezawa'ssensei wasMasao Kato . Umezawa is currently married toShinya Yoshihara .Titles
External links
* [http://www.yukari.gr.jp/ Yukari Umezawa's home page]
* [http://senseis.xmp.net/?YukariUmezawa Sensei's Library's page on Yukari Umezawa]
* [http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/kishihp/umezawa/umezawa.htm A webpage about Umezawa at Nihon Ki-in's website]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20020805111126/http://jin.jcic.or.jp/nipponia/nipponia14/cover.html A Nipponia article about Umezawa]
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