Kana Satomi

Kana Fukuma (福間 香奈) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 6-dan.

She is the current holder of the Women's Ōi, Women's Ōza, Kurashiki Tōka Cup and Seirei (shogi) titles.

She is also the career leader in women's professional shogi major titles.

Satomi is also the first female to have been promoted to Japan Shogi Association's apprentice rank of 3-dan and is also the first women's professional to apply for and be allowed to take the Japan Shogi Association's Professional Admission Test.

Satomi, however, was only able to retain her 6-crown status for about two months and dropped back down to 5-crown status after losing the 41st Women's Ōshō title to Nishiyama 2 games to 1.

The victory gave Satomi her 43rd women's major title overall which tied her with Ichiyo Shimizu for the most ever.

Satomi successfully defended her Women's Ōi crown in June 2021 by defeating Kotomi Yamane 3 games to none to win the 32nd Women's Ōi title match.

The victory was Satomi's 44th major title and made her the all-time Women's professional shogi major title leader.

She returned to 5-crown status in November 2021 after defeating Nishiyama 2 games to 1 to win the 43rd Women's Ōshō title.

Later that same month, however, she was unable to defend her Seirei title against Katō and lost the 3rd Seirei title match (SeptemberNovember 2021) 3 games to 2.

Satomi and Katō also faced each other in the best-of-three 29th Kurashiki Tōka Cup title match (November 2021) with Satomi winning 2 games to 1 for her twelfth Kurashiki Tōka Cup title overall.

Satomi won the Women's Meijin title for the eleventh consecutive time when she defeated Yuki Taniguchi 3 games to none to win the 46th Women's Meijin match.

The victory also gave Satomi sole possession of the record for the most consecutive wins of a women's major title.

Satomi's win was the tenth consecutive time she's won the Meijin title, which tied the record for consecutive wins of a women's title set by Naoko Hayashiba in 1991.

Satomi was born in Izumo, Shimane on March 2, 1992.

In 2003, she represented Shimane Prefecture in the 28th Elementary Student Meijin Tournament as a fifth-grade elementary school student, and advanced to the semifinals before losing to future shogi professional Takuya Nishida.

Later in 2003, Satomi entered the Japan Shogi Association's Women's Professional Apprentice League under the guidance of shogi professional Keiji Mori.

She was awarded the rank of women's professional 2-kyū in October 2004.

In September 2008, Satomi defeated Tomomi Kai to in the final of the 16th Kurashiki Tōka Cup challenger tournament to advance to the best-of-three title match against Ichiyo Shimizu.

Satomi's victory over Kai also meant that she satisfied the criteria for promotion to women's professional 2-dan.

Satomi went on to defeat Shimizu 2 games to none to win her first major title.

Satomi successfully defended her title from 2009 (17th Kurashiki Tōka Cup) until 2012 (20th Kurashiki Tōka Cup).

Satomi's victory in 2012 qualified her for the lifetime title of "Queen Kurashiki Toka", thus making her at 20 years old the youngest women's professional to ever qualify for a lifetime title.

Satomi lost to Kai 2 games to 1 in the final of the 21st Kurashiki Tōka Cup in November 2013, but recaptured the title from Kai in November 2015 by the score of 2 games to none in the 23rd Kurashiki Tōka Cup.

She successfully defended her title in both 2016 (24th Kurashiki Tōka Cup) and 2017 (25th Kurashiki Tōka Cup).

In June 2018, Satomi lost her Women's Ōi title to challenger Mana Watanabe 3 games to 1 in the 29th Women's Ōi title match.

In February 2019, Satomi defended her Women's Meijin title against Sae Itō, winning the 45th Women's Meijin match 3 games to 1.

Satomi earned the right to challenge Tomoka Nishiyama for the 12th Women's Jo-Ō title in April–May 2019, but Nishiyama defended her title 3 games to 1.

The two met again the following year in the 30th Women's Ōi title match (May–June 2019), and Satomi regained her title 3 games to 1.

The victory was Satomi's fifth Women's Ōi title overall, which not only returned her to 5-crown title holder (五冠) status, but also earned her the lifetime title "Queen Ōi".

In September 2019, Satomi defeated Kai 3 games to none to win the inaugural Seirei (shogi).

The win made Satomi the first 6-crown title holder in women's professional shogi.

In November 2019, Satomi defended her Kurashiki Tōka title by defeating Itō 2 games to 1 in the 27th Kurashiki Tōka title match.

In October–December 2019, Satomi defended her Women's Ōza title against Nishiyama, the third time in six months the two met in a major title match.

Satomi lost the 9th Women's Ōza match 3 games to 1 to drop back to a 4-crown title holder status.

In June 2020, Satomi successfully defended her Women's Ōi crown by defeating Momoko Katō 3 games to none.

In July–August 2020, Satomi defeated Hatsumi Ueda 3 games to 2 to win the 2nd Seirei title match.

Satomi won the first two games, lost the next two, but came back to win the final game of the match and defend her title.

In November 2020, Satomi successfully defended her Kurashiki Tōka title by defeating Hiroe Nakai 2 games to none to win the 28th Kurashiki Tōka title.

Satomi defended her Women's Meijin title for the twelfth consecutive time when she defeated Momoko Katō 3 games to none to win the 47th Women's Meijin title match in January–February 2021.