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 went all the way through university at Otsuma Women's before making her mark as a professional player. 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.

Minami Sadamasu is a Japanese professional shogi player born on April 19, 1986, in Tokyo. She graduated from Otsuma Women's University, an educational background that stands out in a discipline where most professionals come up through the youth training system from an early age. Most personal details, including her agency and active period, remain private.

Name (English)

Minami Sadamasu

Name (Japanese)

貞升南

Reading

さだます みなみ

Born

April 19, 1986 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Shogi player

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

2026-06-02

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