Ichiyo Shimizu

**Ichiyo Shimizu** (清水市代, Shimizu Ichiyo, born January 9, 1969) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 7-dan. She became the first women's professional to be promoted to the rank of women's 6-dan and obtain 40 women titles. She is also the second women's professional to win 600 official games.

## JSA director

In May 2017, Shimizu became the first women to be elected as an executive director to the Japan Shogi Association's (JSA) board of directors. She was re-elected to a second two-year term in June 2019.

## Honors

Shimizu has received several awards in recognition of her accomplishments in shogi and contributions to the Japanese society.

- 1996, June: Minister of Education Award
- 1997, February: Tokyo Resident Culture Honor Award (Awarded by the Governor of Tokyo in recognition of cultural achievements)
- 2000, November: Higashimurayama, Tokyo Resident Honor Award
- 2008, August: Kurashiki Shogi Culture Honor Award
- 2009: 25 Years Service Award (Awarded by the JSA in recognition of being an active professional for twenty-five years)

## Title match records

The following tables are the summary of her achievements.

|Year|**Titles**|Other Titles|| style="background-color:#ccf" rowspan="2"|Shogi Award|| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#ccf"|Notes||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|width=75|**女王 (Queen)**|width=75|**女流王将 (Women King)**|width=75|**女流王位 (Women Monarch)**|width=75|**清麗 (Seirei)**|width=75|**女流王座 (Women Throne)**|width=75|**倉敷藤花 (Kurashiki Toka Cup)**|width=75|**女流名人  (Women Grand Master)**|
|1985|－|(Season 8)|－|－|－|－|(Season 12)|||align="left"|Professional player debut||||
|1986|－||－|－|－|－||||||||
|1987|－||－|－|－|－|Hiroe Nakai ooo|| align="left"|LOT|| align="left"|★WPA|| align="left"||||||||
|1988|－||－|－|－|－|Hiroe Nakai xooxx|||||||||||||
|1989|－||－|－|－|－|Hiroe Nakai ooo|||||||||||||
|1990|－||(Season 1)|－|－|－|Naoko Hayashiba xxox|||||||||||||
|1991|－|Naoko Hayashiba oxo||||－||－||－||||align="left"|LOT|| align="left"|★WPA|| align="left"|||||||||||||
|1992|－|↓||－|－|－|Hiroe Nakai xxx||align="left"|LOT|||| align="left"||||||||
|1993|－|Naoko Hayashiba oo|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai oxoo||－||－||<Season 1>||align="left"|LOT|★WPA|||||||||
|1994|－|Haruko Saida xx|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai ooo||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Naoko Hayashiba oo|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai ooo|||| align="left"|★WPA||||||||||||||
|1995|－||Rieko Yauchi ooo||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Haruko Saida oxo|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai ooo|||| align="left"|★WPA|| align="left"|Promoted to 5 dan|||||||||||
|Year|**女王 (Queen)**|**女流王将 (Women King)**|**女流王位 (Women Monarch)**|**清麗 (Seirei)**|**女流王座 (Women Throne)**|**倉敷藤花 (Kurashiki Toka Cup)**|**女流名人 (Women Grand Master)**|Other Titles|Shogi Award|Notes||||
|1996|－|(Season 18) Hiroe Nakai oxxoo **Dominated 4 titles**|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|<Season 7> Sachio Ishibashi ooxo Maintained 4 titles||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|<Season 4> Sayuri Kimura oo Maintained 4 titles|| style="background-color:#ff6699"|<Season 23> Hiroe Nakai xoxoo Maintained 4 titles|||| align="left"|★WPA SP|| align="left"|**Dominated 4 titles** Obtained lifetime title||||||||||||
|1997|－|Haruko Saida oxoxx||Rieko Yauchi oxxox||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai oxo|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai ooo|| align="left"|LOT Kajima Cup|| align="left"|★WPA||||||||||||||
|1998|－|Haruko Saida ooo|| style="background-color:#ff6699"|Rieko Yauchi xooo **Dominated 4 titles**||－||－||style="background-color:#ff6699"|Ryoko Chiba oxo Maintained 4 titles|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Ryoko Chiba ooxo Maintained 4 titles|||| align="left"|★WPA|| align="left"|**Dominated 4 titles** Obtained 2 lifetime titles in this year||||||||||||
|1999|－|Sachio Ishibashi ooxxx|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Ryoko Chiba ooxo||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Rieko Yauchi oo||Hiroe Nakai xxx|| align="left"|Kajima Cup |||| align="left"|||||||||||||
|2000|－|Sachio Ishibashi oxoo|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Ryoko Chiba ooo||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Rieko Yauchi oo|||| align="left"|LOT|| align="left"|★WMVP|| align="left"|4th lifetime title Promoted to 6-dan (1st female player to obtain this rank)||||||||||||
|2001|－|Rieko Yauchi xooo|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai xxooo||－||－||Hiroe Nakai xox|||||| align="left"|WPA||||||||||||||
|2002|－|Hiroe Nakai xxx|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Sachio Ishibashi ooo||－||||||||||||||||||||||
|2003|－||Hiroe Nakai xooo||－||－|||| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai oxoo|| align="left"|LOT|| align="left"|★WMVP|||||||||||||
|2004|－||Rieko Yauchi ooo||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hiroe Nakai oxo|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Ryoko Chiba oxoo|| align="left"|Kajima Cup || align="left"|★WMVP|||||||||||||
|2005|－||Hiroe Nakai oxoo||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Rieko Yauchi oo||Rieko Yauchi xxx|||||||||||||||||
|2006|－||Sachio Ishibashi ooxo||－||－||Haruko Saida xox|||||||||||||||||||
|2007|－|Ryoko Chiba xooo||Sachio Ishibashi xoxox||－||－|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Haruko Saida xoo|||||| align="left"|★WMVP|| align="left"|||||||||||||
|2008|(Season 1)||style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Rieko Yauchi ooxo||Sachio Ishibashi xxoox||－||－||Kana Satomi xx|| style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Rieko Yauchi xooxo|||| align="left"|★WMVP||||||||||||
|2009|||style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Hatsumi Ueda oo||style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Sachio Ishibashi xooxo||－||－||||Kana Satomi xxx||||align="left"|WPA||align="left"|||||||||||
|2010|||Kana Satomi oxx||Tomomi Kai xxox||－||－||||Kana Satomi xxx||||align="left"|WPPMG (30 Games)||align="left"||||||||||||
|2011|||||Tomomi Kai xxoox||－||(Season 1) Momoko Kato xoxox||Kana Satomi xx||Kana Satomi oxxx|| align="left"|Daiwa Securities Cup||align="left"|WPA WPPMG (55 games)||align="left"|Annual winning record (40wins)|||||||||
|2012||||－||||||||||
|2013||||－||||||||||
|2014||Manao Kagawa oxx||Tomomi Kai soxxx||－||||||Kana Satomi xxx||||align="left"|WPPMG (37 Games)||||||||||||||
|2015||||－|||Kana Satomi oxxox|||||||||||||
|2016||||－||||||||||
|2017||||－||||||||||
|2018||||－|Kana Satomi xxx||||||||||align="left"|Oldest finalist (challenger to the defending champion) in women titles|||||||||
|2019||||(Season 1)||||||||||
|Year|**女王 (Queen)**|**女流王将 (Women King)**|**女流王位 (Women Monarch)**|**清麗 (Seirei)**|**女流王座 (Women Throne)**|**倉敷藤花 (Kurashiki Toka Cup)**|**女流名人 (Women Grand Master)**|Other Titles|Shogi Award|Notes||||
|Total|－|15 times as finalist Obtained **9** times||20 times as finalist Obtained **14** times||－||2 times as finalist　||14 times as finalist Obtained **10** times||20 times as finalist Obtained **10** times|| rowspan="2"|**11 times**|| rowspan="2"|　|| rowspan="2"|||||||||||||
|colspan="7"|71 times as finalist, obtained title for **43** times (Japan record)|||||||||||||
|Title||Years||Number of times overall|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|女流名人 (Women Grand Master)|1987, 1989, 199498, 200304, 2008|10|||
|女流王将 (Women King)|1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 200001, 200709|9|||
|女流王位 (Women Monarch)|199396, 19982006, 2009|14 (Japan record)|||
|Kurashiki Tōka Cup|19942000, 200405, 2007|10 (Japan record)|||