Yamashita Keigo up to now is by far the most successful student from the go school run by Kikuchi Yasuro. His spectacular style has renewed interest in the game of go. A short resume:
As a 7 dan early in 2001, Yamashita Keigo won the prestigious 38th Shusai Prize. It recognised not only the fact that he won the Gosei title at the age of 21, but that his Go style is a breath of fresh air. In the same year he also won the Journalists' Club prize and the Kido Prize, among other awards.
A small collection of his games can be found at My Friday Night Files.
Gobase page http://gobase.org/information/players/?pp=Yamashita%20Keigo .
2003 is a very busy year for Yamashita Keigo. After winning Kisei he plays in the Meijin title match and after that in the Tengen title match.
Win/loss record:
[1] DJ: As far as I know, the current Kisei-sen is the 2002: being a mammoth tournament, the final is actually played at the beginning of the year after the "nominal" one.
Charles: It's a fair point. I don't think we yet have an established convention here on SL, whether you give the year in which the tournament started its preliminaries, or the year in which the title match finished.
Dave Sigaty: It is neither. It is the 27th Kisei with no reference to any year. See the sponsor's page.
Charles: There is a convention followed by the Igo Nenkan reference section, of giving first the term number, and then the year, as determined by the final; so for example the 1st Kisei title is dated as 1977. This is followed by GoGod, too.