Minami Sadamasu

What gets me about Minami Sadamasu is the path. Shogi culture basically expects you to be in the training system before you hit double digits — grinding through ranked matches as a kid, sacrificing a normal school life for the board. Yet here's someone who only started in fifth grade, turned pro at 17 and still went on to graduate from Otsuma Women's University. That alone tells you something about the kind of stubbornness it takes. I imagine her at the board: still, composed, reading five moves deeper than she lets on.

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Minami Sadamasu is a Japanese professional shogi player born on April 19, 1986, in Tokyo. A member of the Japan Shogi Association, she only learned the game in the fifth grade, turned professional in October 2003 and later graduated from Otsuma Women's University.

Name (English)

Minami Sadamasu

Name (Japanese)

貞升南

Reading

さだます みなみ

Born

April 19, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Shogi player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

University

Otsuma Women's University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B2%9E%E5%8D%87%E5%8D%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11634507

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Shogi player

Last updated

September 26, 2026

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