Kato Keiko

Kato Keiko (加藤啓子 Katō Keiko, born June 12, 1978) is a Nihon Ki-in 6 dan professional and former Women's Meijin (19th).

Table of contents Early Go Promotion history Titles Runners up Personal life Links

Early Go

In fifth grade of elementary school in 1990, she became an insei in the Makuhari training center dormitory, with Yashiro Kumiko as room mate, and was tutored by Cho Chikun and Fujisawa Hideyuki.

Promotion history

1p & 2p 1999, 3p 2000, 4p 2001, 5p 2006, 6p 2008

Titles

• 10th Female Strongest, 2008
• 19th Women's Meijin, 2007

Runners up

• 4th Female Kisei, 2001
• 6th Female Kisei, 2003
• 20th Female Meijin, 2008
• 12th Female Kisei, 2009
• 26th Female Meijin, 2014

Personal life

She married Mizokami Tomochika 9p on 22 November 2006—a date chosen because it is Good Couple Day. Their partnership was evidently beneficial, because soon after, she won her first title. They have a son born in 2010 and a daughter Sakura born in November 2013. After a relatively short maternity leave, she won the right to challenge for the 26th Female Meijin.

Links

• Japanese Wikipedia
• Nihon Ki-in profile