Ryuen Cup
Keywords: Tournament
(留園杯争奪早碁トーナメント戦) The Ryuen Cup was a private invitational tournament for young players. The sponsor, Ryuen is a famous Chinese restaurant in Tokyo.
List of winners
Number Year Winner 1 1977 Kataoka Satoshi 4 dan (d. Ogawa Tomoko 4 dan) 2 1978 Kataoka Satoshi 5 dan (d. Yamashiro Hiroshi 6 dan) 3 1979 O Meien 3 dan (d. Sonoda Yasutaka 4 dan) 4 1980 Kobayashi Satoru 6 dan (d. Aragaki Takeshi 5 dan) 5 1981 Kobayashi Satoru 6 dan (d. Aragaki Takeshi 5 dan) 6 1982 Hikosaka Naoto 5 dan (d. Ishikura Noboru 4 dan) 7 1983 Tei Meiko 4 dan (d. Yasuda Yasutoshi dan) 8 1984 Ogata Masaki 5 dan (d. Oya Koichi 4 dan) 9 1985 Michael Redmond 4 dan (d. Muramatsu Ryuichi 4 dan) 10 1986 Cho Sonjin 4 dan (d. Muramatsu Ryuichi 4 dan)
The 10th tournament seems to have been the last one.