Masayuki Toyoshima

Quick Facts

Full Name	Masayuki Toyoshima
Occupation	Shogi Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 30, 1990(1990-04-30)
Age	34
Birthplace	Ichinomiya
Country	Japan
Birth City	Aichi Prefecture
Horoscope	Aries

Masayuki Toyoshima Biography

Masayuki Toyoshima is one of the most popular and richest Shogi Player who was born on April 30, 1990 in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Toyoshima was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi on April 30th in 1990. He enrolled in the Japanese Shogi Association’s apprenticeship training school with the grade of 6kyu under the supervision from shogi pro Kiyozumi Kiriyama in 1999. He earned professional status and was promoted to the rank of 4-dan 1st April 2007 after finishing in a tie for first place with Kota Kanai in the 40th 3-dan League (October 2006 to March 2007,) with an overall winning record of fourteen and four loss.

Toyoshima has been on the “Top 10” of the JSA’s annual prize money/game fee rankings five times since he became a professional five times in 2014: fifth place with JPY 21,600,000 in earnings. He was eighth in 2015, with JPY 24,590,000 earned. 7th in 2016, with JPY 24.9220,000 of earnings. Fourth in the year 2018 when JPY 47.220,000 as earnings and then the first year of 2019 with JPY 70,570,000 in earnings.

In April 2015, Toyoshima defeated Meijin title holder Amahiko Satō to advance to the 86th Kisei title match, but lost to Habu 3 games to 1.

Toyoshima defeated Amahiko Satō to win the 37th Nihon Series JT Professional Tournament [ja] on October 23, 2016, for his first tournament victory as a professional. He reached the finals of the tournament once again in 2017, but lost to Takayuki Yamasaki.

Toyoshima’s debut title defense took place in the months of June-July 2019, when he was battling the challenger Akira Watanabe in the 90th Kisei title match. Toyoshima won the opening game of the match however, Watanabe took the next three games to claim the title. After losing, Toyoshima returned to being the title holder with two crowns.

Masayuki Toyoshima Net Worth

Masayuki Toyoshima is one of the richest Shogi Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Masayuki Toyoshima 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Masayuki Toyoshima (Li Dao Jiang Zhi , Masayuki Toyoshima born on April 30 in 1990) is a Japanese professional shogi player being ranked 9-dan. He is currently the winner of both the Meijin as well as Ryuo championships as well as a former holder his Oi as well as the Kisei titles.

Toyoshima’s very first participation in an important title game took place in 2010 when he beat Yasumitsu Sato to take sixty years of Osho league, with a record that included 5 victories and one loss. Although Toyoshima fell in the first game of league play and then won his next five games and be able to challenge the defending Osho Toshiaki Kubo for the title. The game against Kubo was drawn at one-win after two games, however Kubo took three wins from the next four games in order to defend his title by a score of 4-2. Toyoshima was just 20 at the time, which made the youngest contestant in the history of the tournament, beating the record established by Hifumi Kato, who was just 22 when he competed against Kubo for his title back in the year 1961.

In July 2014, Toyoshima defeated Tadahisa Maruyama to win the right to challenge Yoshiharu Habu for the 62nd Ōza title. Although Toyoshima lost the first two games of his match against Habu, he won the next two to tie the match before losing the deciding Game 5.

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Toyoshima defended his Ōi title against Kazuki Kimura in the 60th Ōi title match (July 7 – September 26, 2019). Toyoshima won the first two games, but proceeded to lose the next two. Toyoshima won Game 5 and needed just one more win to defend his title, but Kimura won the last two games to win the match 4 games to 3.

Facts & Trivia

Masayuki Ranked on the list of most popular Shogi Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Masayuki Toyoshima celebrates birthday on April 30 of every year.