Meijin (shogi)
One of the eight titles in Japanese professional shogi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a title in shogi. For a title in go, see Meijin (go). For a title in renju, see Meijin (renju). For the Yasunari Kawabata novel, see The Master of Go.
Meijin (名人) is one of the eight titles in Japanese professional shogi, and is the most prestigious title, along with Ryūō. The word meijin (名 mei "excellent, artful", 人 jin "person") refers to a highly skilled master of a certain field (the various arts found in traditional Japanese culture, such as the Japanese tea ceremony, go, competitive karuta, rakugo, budō).[1]