Female Student Honinbo

Female Student Honinbo (FSH) is the only one Go tournament for female university students. It is held since 1966 with the support of Nihon Ki-in and the All Japan Student Go Federation. The Women's Honinbo for professionals is similar but not directly related.

Table of contents Tournament system Notable FSH winners since the 2000s Notable finalists and semi-finalists

Tournament system

To attend the FSH, all players must clear the regional preliminaries. For example, the Tokyo area preliminary is held by the Kanto Student Go Association.

All regional representatives will be randomly enrolled to 4 leagues. Only the 1st place of each leagues are entitled to the semi-finals.

Notable FSH winners since the 2000s

Season	Year	Winner
34-35	1999–2000	Kamasaki Mizuyo (Hiroshima)
37 & 40	2002 & 2005	Aragaki Miki (Waseda)
38	2003	Unegawa Marie (Waseda)
39	2004	Takakura Kozue (Chuo)
41	2006	Sasago Risa (Waseda)
44-46	2008–2010	Sekine Reiko (Taisho)
49	2013	Kimoto Yuka (Open University of Japan)
50-51	2014–2015	Tsukada Karin (Ritsumeikan)
52-54	2016–2018	Fujiwara Akiko (Waseda)
55	2019	Tsuji Moeka (Keio)
57	2019	Kato Yuuki (Waseda)

Notable finalists and semi-finalists