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Masaki Ogata

Japanese Go player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6782454 ↗
Source-derived summary

Masaki Ogata (小県 真樹, born 1964) is a professional 9 dan Japanese Go player. He became an insei at the Nihon Ki-in in 1976 under Tsuchida Masamitsu, and turned professional in 1980. Ogata won the Kido magazine Shinjin (English: "New player") award with 38 wins and 8 losses in 1983, and the Kido award for most wins in 1988 with a record of 39 wins, 1 draw and 13 losses. He is currently affiliated with the Nagoya branch of the Nihon Ki-in.

Editorial summary

“Masaki Ogata” enters the record as japanese Go player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Masaki, Ogata and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1976, 1980, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-09-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Masaki, Ogata and Japanese.
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Why this record matters

“Masaki Ogata” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Masaki, Ogata and Japanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6782454. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1976, 1980 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Masaki Ogata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.