COVER GIRL UMEZAWA
You know you're famous as a go player when you get your photograph published without a go board. The latest edition of Nipponia (No. 14, 2000), an English-language magazine about Japan published by Heibonsha, has accorded this distinction to "young, cheerful and intellectual" Umezawa Yukari 4-dan. Not only that, they have given her cover-page status (see right) and an interview entitled "Go princess has skill and charisma". In it, Umezawa - well known and popular overseas - enigmatically says: "When I visited Europe, I saw that people like go because it's a game. In Japan, people tend to look at go as a traditional art. I'm glad that's not the case overseas."
Umezawa is the go consultant behind the comic series Hikaru no Go, mentioned many times in this column. We have also profiled her in the Big pro-Little pro series.
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