Amateur Honinbo

(全日本アマチュア本因坊戦) The Amateur Honinbo is a major tournament for Japanese amateurs. Often abbreviated as "Ama-hon" (アマ本).

Winners of the title are now automatically awarded 8-dan diplomas. The winner typically plays the professional Honinbo in an exhibition match (ProAmHoninboMatch) played with a variable handicap or komi. In addition, the final eight players are invited to play in the Agon Cup.

Winners

2023 Ozeki Minoru
2022 Kurita Yoshiki
2021 Hiraoka Satoshi
2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 Ozeki Minoru
2018 Hiraoka Satoshi
2017 Hayashi Ryou?林隆羽
2016 Ozeki Minoru
2015 Shibano Ryunosuke (later pro)
2013 & 2014 Hong Seok-ui (later pro)
2012 Hiraoka Satoshi 平岡聡
2011 Nakazono Seizo 中園清三
2010 Tsuneishi Takashi (later pro)
2009 Hiraoka Satoshi 平岡聡
2008 Hong Mal Eun Saem (later pro) 홍맑은샘 洪清泉
2007 Takizawa Yuta 瀧澤雄太
2006 Murakami Fukashi 村上深
2005 Hiraoka Satoshi 平岡聡
2004 Tanaka Nobuhiro? 田中伸拓
2003 Harada Minoru 原田実
2002 Samejima Ichiro 鮫島一郎
2001 Komori Shoji? 小森祥嗣
2000 Iwai Ryuichi 岩井竜一
1999 Miura Hiroshi 三浦浩
1998 Tanaka Masato 田中正人
1997 Harada Minoru
1996 Sakai Hideyuki
1995 Nakazono Seizo 中園清三
1994 Takano Hideki, 高野英樹
1993 Hirata Hironori, 平田博則
1992 Nakazono Seizo 中園清三
1991 Tanaka Masato, 田中正人
1990 Nakazono Seizo 中園清三
1989 Harada Minoru, 原田実
1988 Hirata Hironori
1987 Nakazono Seizo
1986 Hirata Hironori
1985 Nakazono Seizo
1982,83,84 Kikuchi Yasuro
1981 Murakami Bunsho
1979,80 Miura Hiroshi
1978 Murakami Bunsho
1977 Kikuchi Yasuro
1976 Murakami Bunsho
1975 Taguchi Tetsuro
1974 Miura Hiroshi
1972,73 Kikuchi Yasuro
1971 Miura Hiroshi
1970 Narumi Sunao?
1969 Kikuchi Yasuro
1968 Harada Minoru
1967 Murakami Bunsho
1965,66 Kikuchi Yasuro
1963,64 Harada Minoru
1962 Kikuchi Yasuro
1961 Harada Minoru
1960 Murakami Bunsho
1957,58,59 Kikuchi Yasuro
1956 Oka Mitsuo (later pro)
1955 Hirata Hironori