is a Japanese
women's professional shogi player ranked 2-
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 West Africa
**Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoi ...
. 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
is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, levels or degrees of proficiency or experience. In Mandarin Chin ...
: 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 '' janggi''. ''Shōgi'' ...
player.
References
External links
* blog
女流棋士中倉宏美のblog* (Bunshun Online interview with Nakakura to discuss the 15th anniversary of the LPSA)
Japanese shogi players
Living people
Female shogi players
Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan
Professional shogi players from Tokyo Metropolis
People from Fuchū, Tokyo
1979 births
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