Sakura Ishimoto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sakura Ishimoto
Occupation	Japanese Professional Shogi Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 27, 1999(1999-01-27)
Age	25
Birthplace	Suita
Country	Japan
Birth City	Osaka Prefecture
Horoscope	Capricorn

Sakura Ishimoto Biography

Sakura Ishimoto is one of the most popular and richest Japanese professional shogi player who was born on January 27, 1999 in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Ishimoto is born the 27th of January 1999 located in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. She first began to be fascinated by shogi while she was an elementary school fourth grade student when she saw her friends engaging in the sport. She decided she wanted to master the game and decided to attend a local shogi academy soon afterward.

Ishimoto was beaten by Kanna Suzuki to win the third Yamada Women’s Professional Challenge Cup [ja] in the month of August in 2017 in her very first event as an professional. She made it through the semi-finals in the same event in the following year, but failed in her quest to repeat as champion of the tournament. She lost to Saya Nakazawa.

Ishimoto was admitted into Japan Shogi Association (JSA) Kansai Branch’s training group system. While she is still an amateur player, she was able to beat several women’s shogi pros during the preliminaries at the third (2013) as well as the 4th (2014) women’s Oza tournaments. In 2016 she was elevated to Class B1 in the system of training groups, when she was just 17 years old and was a third-year of high school senior, which was a way of meeting the requirements to be a member of women’s professional provisional 3-kyu. She applied to the JSA along with the shogi professional Nobuo MORI [ja] serving as her patron and was granted the right to become a women’s professional. She was given an honorary rank, 2-kyu as well as professional status on the basis of her performance in 2013, and the 2014. Women’s Oza tournaments.

Sakura Ishimoto Net Worth

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

Sakura Ishimoto (Shi Ben sakura Ishimoto Sakura, born on January 27 1999) is a Japanese female professional shogi player who is ranked 1dan.

In 2010, she was third in the girl’s section in the fourth elementary School Student Girls’ Meijin Tournament [ja] as and placing third at the third Elementary School Komehime Meijin [ja] tournaments in her sixth grade elementary school kid. In 2012, two years later she took home the girls’ division at the 33rd Japan All-Japan Junro Secondary School Invitational Shogi Tournament (jaas a sophomore senior in high school.

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Facts & Trivia

Sakura Ranked on the list of most popular Japanese professional shogi player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Sakura Ishimoto celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.