Kansai Ki-in

The Kansai Ki-in (関西棋院, i.e., Kansai Go Association) is an organization for the game of Go in Japan, which was founded in 1950 at Osaka. It is not as large as the Nihon Ki-in based in Tokyo, but it also gives diplomas to strong players and maintain their professional player system as the Nihon Ki-in does. They also hire professional players as same as the Nihon Ki-in (with different rules and age restrictions).
Famous players at Kansai Ki-in

 Daisuke Murakawa
 Dogen Handa (1915-1974)
 Hideyuki Sakai
 Manfred Wimmer (born in Austria)
 Satoshi Yuki
 Shoji Hashimoto (1935-2009)
 Utaro Hashimoto (1907-1994, founder of Kansai Ki-in)
Female players

 Kazuko Konishi
 Mika Yoshida

Related pages
 All Japan Student Go Federation
 American Go Association
 British Go Association

Other websites
 Official Website of Kansai Ki-in 

Category:1950 establishments in Japan
Category:Go organizations
Category:Sports organizations of Japan