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Nakakura Kentaro
Nakakura (written: 中倉 or 中蔵) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese kendoka, iaidoka and aikidoka *, Japanese mixed martial artist {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko Nakakura
is a Japanese retired women's professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 2-dan. Women's shogi professional Promotion history The promotion history of Nakakura was as follows. * 2--kyū: April 1, 1994 * 1-kyū: April 1, 2000 * 1-dan: April 1, 2002 * Retired: March 2015 * 2-dan: April 2017 Personal life Nakakura's sister, Hiromi, is also a women's professional shogi player. The 2001 Japanese movie ''Travail'' about a pair of sisters who are women's professional shogi players is partly modeled upon their careers and the sisters served as consultants for the film. Nakakura is married to professional shogi player Makoto Chūza is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7-dan. Early life Chūza was born in Wakkanai, Hokkaido on February 3, 1970. He was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū in November 1981 under the .... The couple married in November 2003, and have three children. References External links 公益 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Nakakura
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan. She is the current representative director of the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan (LPSA). Women's shogi professional Promotion history Nakakura's promotion history is as follows: * 2-kyū: October 1995 * 1-kyū: April 1, 1996 * 1-dan: April 1, 2001 * 2-dan: January 21, 2009 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. LPSA representative director Nakakura was selected to replace Sachio Ishibashi as representative director of the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan (LPSA) in February 2014. She was re-elected as representative director in 2016,2018, 2020 and 2022. Personal life Nakakura's sister Akiko is a retired women's professional shogi , also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, ''chaturanga, Xiangqi'', Indian chess, and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Nakakura
was a Japanese practitioner of kendo, iaido and aikido. Nakakura was originally the top kendo student of Nakayama Hakudō. When Nakayama was asked to send a representative of kendo to Morihei Ueshiba's aikido dojo, he appointed Nakakura to the role. Nakakura married Ueshiba's daughter Matsuko and was legally adopted into the Ueshiba family, taking the name Morihiro Ueshiba. Nakakura was impressed with Ueshiba's martial skills (particularly after his adopted father was able to fend off a simultaneous attack from both Nakakura and the fencing expert Junichi Haga), but disagreed with Ueshiba's Oomoto-kyo beliefs and left the family after a few years. His role as heir to Ueshiba's art was taken by Ueshiba's birth son, Kisshomaru. Nakakura continued to train in kendo and iaido throughout his life, achieving 9th dan Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Nakakura
Takashi Nakakura (Japanese: 中蔵隆志, ''Nakakura Takashi'', born March 23, 1977) is a Japanese mixed martial artist, and the former Shooto welterweight champion. Nakakura is also a seido kaikan karate and Judo black belt. He took up Judo for three years in high school and soon after started training in seido kaikan karate where he took 2nd in the West Japan B-league competition losing only to Tsuyoshi Nakasako, a current K-1 fighter. MMA career Nakakura made his Shooto debut in 2002, in GIG: East 11. He won by submission (rear naked choke) over Heima Hashimoto in a fight that lasted a bit over three minutes. He remained undefeated for two years, until losing by decision to Takumi Nakayama in 2004. On May 3, 2008, he fought Ganjo Tetsuku at Shooto's Tradition 01 event for Shooto's Vacant welterweight championship, which he won by Unanimous Decision. May 10, 2009 Shooto Tradition Final, Nakakura fought a non title bout against former Pride Fighting Championships lightweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |