Women's Kisei


The Women's Kisei is a Japanese Go competition.

Outline

The Women's Kisei is sponsored by NTT DoCoMo, and uses a hayago format, of 30 seconds per move and a 10x1 minute byo-yomi, unlike the Kisei, which uses an eight-hour thinking time format. The winner's purse is 5,000,000 yen.

Past winners

Winners in chronological order:
YearWinnerScoreRunner-up
1.1998Kobayashi Izumi2–0Kobayashi Chizu
2.1999Kobayashi Izumi2–1Sugiuchi Kazuko
3.2000Chinen Kaori2–0Kobayashi Izumi
4.2001Chinen Kaori2–1Kato Reiko
5.2002Chinen Kaori2–1Ogawa Tomoko
6.2003Chinen Kaori2–1Kato Reiko
7.2004Mannami Kana2–1Chinen Kaori
8.2005Chinen Kaori2–0Mannami Kana
9.2006Mannami Kana2–1Chinen Kaori
10.2007Umezawa Yukari2–1Mannami Kana
11.2008Umezawa Yukari2–0Mukai Chiaki
12.2009Umezawa Yukari2–1Kato Reiko
13.2010Xie Yimin2–0Umezawa Yukari
14.2011Xie Yimin2–0Umezawa Yukari
15.2012Aoki Kikuyo2–1Xie Yimin
16.2013Xie Yimin2–0Aoki Kikuyo
17.2014Xie Yimin2–0Aoki Kikuyo
18.2015Xie Yimin2–0Konishi Kazuko
19.2016Xie Yimin2–0Yoshihara Yukari
20.2017Xie Yimin2–1Nyu Eiko
21.2018Ueno Asami2–0Xie Yimin
22.2019Ueno Asami2–0Fujisawa Rina
23.2020Suzuki Ayumi2–0Ueno Asami
24.2021Ueno Asami2–1Suzuki Ayumi
25.2022Ueno Asami2–0Suzuki Ayumi
26.2023Nakamura Sumire2–1Ueno Asami
27.2024Ueno Risa2–1Nakamura Sumire
28.2025Ueno Risa2–0Mukai Chiaki

Winners by number of titles:
PlayerTitlesYears Held
Xie Yimin72010–2011, 2013–2017-
Chinen Kaori52000–2003, 2005-
Ueno Asami42018–2019, 2021–2022-
Yoshihara Yukari32007–2009-
Kobayashi Izumi21998–1999-
Mannami Kana22004, 2006-
Ueno Risa22024–2025-
Aoki Kikuyo12012-
Suzuki Ayumi12020-
Nakamura Sumire12023-