was a 9-dan professional Go player.Hashimoto Utaro at Sensei's Library /ref>Hashimoto Utaro at GoBase /ref> /ref>
Biography
Hashimoto became a pro in 1922 when he was 15. He won the
Honinbō
In the history of Go in Japan, the four Go houses were four major schools of Go instituted, supported, and controlled by the state, at the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate. (There were also many minor houses.) At roughly the same time shogi ...
3 times before finally reaching 9p in 1954. He founded the
Kansai Ki-in
The Kansai Ki-in (), i.e., Kansai Go Association, is an organizational body for the game of Go in Japan, which was founded by Hashimoto Utaro in 1950. Though it is not as large as its chief rival, the Nihon Ki-in, it also issues diplomas to stron ...