[Pony Canyon Co., Ltd.] “Takatsuki Shogi Festival” will be held at Yasman Ruins Park on November 16th this year!
*Pony Canyon Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 10, 2024
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“Takatsuki Shogi Festival” will be held at Yasman Ruins Park on November 16th this year!
*Spend a day full of shogi in Takatsuki, where the New Kansai Shogi Hall is about to relocate! *
Scenes from the previous event (taken in October 2020)
Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, will hold the “Takatsuki Shogi Festival” at Yasuman Ruins Park in the city on Saturday, November 16, 2020, the day before the ceremony to commemorate the completion of the Kansai Shogi Hall, the sacred place for shogi in the west.
The Takatsuki Shogi Festival, which will be held for the third time, will feature public games and talk shows by popular shogi players, as well as an autograph session with Megumi Ina, author of the shogi comic “Shogi no Watanabe-kun.”
In addition, there will be parent-child coaching games, Tsume Shogi lectures by shogi players, an audio rally introducing “Shogi Town Takatsuki”, a finger dance workshop that appeared in the PR video “Takatsuki Kifu”, and “55 Shogi” with jumbo shogi pieces. There are lots of fun projects such as (an irregular shogi that uses a board of 5 squares in length and width). This is an event where you can truly enjoy a day full of shogi. Please consider visiting Takatsuki.
* Overview of “Takatsuki Shogi Festival” *
* [Date and time] November 16, 2024 (Sat) 10:00-16:00*
* [Venue] Yasman Ruins Park (12-3 Hatchonawate-cho, Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture) *
*Free admission*
* [Program] *
■Public match – East-West pair match – ■Professional players talk show ■Parent-child instruction game (advance application required) ■Tsume Shogi course (advance application required)
■Signing session with manga artist Megumi Ina, creator of the comic “Shogi no Watanabe-kun”
■“Shogi Town Takatsuki” Audio Content Rally ■Finger Dance Workshop
* [Performing players (planned)] *
Koji Tanigawa 17th Master, Kiyosumi Kiriyama 9th Dan, Bungo Fukuzaki 9th Dan, Kazuo Higashi 8th Dan, Masahiko Urano 8th Dan,
Yo Inaba 8th dan, Shintaro Saito 8th dan, Makoto Tobe 7th dan, Daichi Sasaki 7th dan, Akihiro Murata 6th dan, Yuta Komori 5th dan, Teisho Minami 2nd dan, Keika Kitamura 2nd dan, Saki Kawamata 1st dan, Rei Taketomi 1st dan
(Dan rank is as of September 1, 2020)
* [Guest appearance] *
Tsuyoshi Tsuruno (PR ambassador for “Shogi Town Takatsuki”)
Megumi Ina (manga artist and author of the comic “Shogi no Watanabe-kun”)
* [Notes] *
*Please note that we cannot ask players for two-shot photos or autographs. *Event content, scheduled performers, etc. are subject to change. *Personal information such as photos and names may be published in programs, tournament records, newspapers, Internet viewing sites, etc. Additionally, photos and videos taken by businesses that have received permission from the organizer may be made public.
Detailed information to be decided in the future will be announced on the special page for “Shogi Town Takatsuki”.
The Takatsuki Shogi Festival is planned and operated by Pony Canyon Co., Ltd. as part of the 2020 2020 Takatsuki City “Shogi Town Takatsuki” event ordering process.
Takatsuki Shogi Festival special page
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Takatsuki City Official Homepage
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Shogi Town Takatsuki PR video “Takatsuki Shogi Style”
Watch the video