# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasuharu-oyama
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:40:45.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasuharu-oyama"
name: "Yasuharu Ōyama"
slug: "yasuharu-oyama"
description: "Yasuharu Ōyama was a professional shogi player, 15th Lifetime Meijin and president of Japan Shogi Association. He studied shogi under Kinjiro Kimi . He won 80 titles, 44 other type tournaments and 1433 games in life, and was awarded five lifetime titles: Lifetime Meijin, Lifetime Jūdan, Lifetime Ōi, Lifetime Kisei and Lifetime Ōshō. Among his 80 titles, 18 were the Meijin title. He has appeared in the Meijin title match 25 times winning 18; he also holds the record for the most consecutive Meijin titles, the most overall Meijin titles, and being the oldest player to challenge for the Meijin title, at age 63 in 1986."
tagline: "Japanese shogi player (1923-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/New_Shogi_Champion_Yasuharu_Oyama_1952_Scan10007.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1923-03-13"
deathDate: "1992-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.6
  momentum:             1.520437386097371
  historical:           4.9593
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuharu_%C5%8Cyama"
    title: "Yasuharu Ōyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuharu_Oyama"
    title: "Yasuharu Oyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B1%B1%E5%BA%B7%E6%99%B4"
    title: "大山康晴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AF%D1%81%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Ояма, Ясухару"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B1%B1%E5%BA%B7%E6%99%B4"
    title: "大山康晴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3660755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump