All-Japan Women's Championship

Keywords: Tournament

(全日本女子囲碁選手権戦) All-Japan Women's Championship was the first major Japanese women's event and the first continuous event for women. It is also one of the oldest of modern events. Since it was the only major tournament for women when the Honinbo title was the only major title for men, then this women's event was unofficially referred to as the Women's Honinbo. It was also called, Women's Championship for short. After 27-terms, it was replaced by an official Women's Honinbo in 1982.

Term	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1	1952	Ito Tomoe	1–0	Takeda Misao
2	1953	Sugiuchi Kazuko	2–0	Ito Tomoe
3	1954	Sugiuchi Kazuko	2–0	Suzuki Tsuna
4	1955	Sugiuchi Kazuko	2–1	Ito Tomoe
5	1956	Sugiuchi Kazuko	2–0	Ito Tomoe
6	1957	Ito Tomoe	--	won by special league*
7	1958	Ito Tomoe	2–0	Suzuki Tsuna
--	1959	--	--	--
8	1960	Ito Tomoe	2–0	Honda Sachiko
9	1961	Ito Tomoe	2–0	Kitani Reiko
10	1962	Ito Tomoe	2–0	Takeda Misao
11	1963	Kitani Reiko	2–1	Ito Tomoe
--	1964	--	--	--
12	1965	Ito Tomoe	2–1	Kitani Reiko
13	1966	Kitani Reiko	2–0	Ito Tomoe
14	1967	Kitani Reiko	2–1	Ito Tomoe
15	1968	Kitani Reiko	2–1	Kodama Sachiko
16	1969	Honda Sachiko	2–1	Kitani Reiko
17	1970	Kitani Reiko	2–0	Honda Sachiko
18	1971	Kitani Reiko	2–1	Honda Sachiko
19	1972	Honda Sachiko	2–0	Kitani Reiko
20	1973	Honda Sachiko	2–0	Ito Tomoe
--	1974	--	--	--
21	1975	Honda Sachiko	2–1	Kobayashi Chizu
22	1976	Kobayashi Chizu	2–0	Honda Sachiko
23	1977	Kobayashi Chizu	2–1	Honda Sachiko
24	1978	Kobayashi Chizu	2–1	Ogawa Tomoko
25	1979	Ogawa Tomoko	2–0	Kobayashi Chizu
26	1980	Ogawa Tomoko	2–1	Kobayashi Chizu
27	1981	Honda Sachiko	2–1	Ogawa Tomoko

Special league was necessary, because defending champion Sugiuchi Kazuko retired for 10 years to raise her children, rather than defend her title.

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All-Japan Women's Championship

See also