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Were Fujisawa Rina's titles as prestigious though? I know she got the female Honinbo early (is that more prestigious?) but a minor tournament wouldn't be comparable.
How you allocate prestige is not only subjective but some parameters, such as prize money and time limits change from year to year. One trap you mustn't fall into, though, is thinking of the Women's Kisei as the female equivalent of the open Kisei.
The current Nihon Ki-in ordering of women's events is 1. Women's Honinbo, 2. Aidu Chuo Hospital Cup, 3. Women's Meijin, 4. Women's Kisei, 5. Senko Cup (the Ibero-Japan Cup seems to have disappeared). But this ordering was different in previous years. If you re-order it in terms of current money, it becomes 1. Senko (8m yen, with an unusually large runner's up prze of 4m), 2. Aidu Chuo (7m), 3. Women's Honinbo (5.5m, but's a fairly recent hike), 4. Kisei (5m), 5. Meijin (3.5m).
In terms of "seriousness" the Aidu Chuo is the only female title with a 2-day final (5 hours each), but only a 1-game match and 2h each elsewhere (1h in the year Rina won), while the Women's Honinbo is a 4-hours-each final with a 5-game match. The bottom of the pile is the Women's Kisei at 30 seconds a move, but it does have a 3-game final. The Meijin is the only women's event with a league (3h each), which some see as more "serious" than a KO, and it too has 3-game final. The Senko has 3h each but only a 1-game final.
All these events are national in the sense of including the Kansai Ki-in, but in terms of media coverage, the Women's Honinbo is streets ahead (followed by the Aidu Chuo) because it is run by a rather large newspaper consortium. In contrast the Senko and Kisei have single non-media companies as sponsors and so rely on the coverage the company's PR people can drum up.
Since Rina's first two titles were the Aidu then the Honinbo, I think it is fair to say her title debut was well ahead of Ueno Asami's (Kisei) by just about every measure, and of course she has added other titles since then, not least the Senko (about $75,000). She has also held her end up well in international events (e.g. beating Ch'oe Cheong and Joanne Missingham) and has given some if the men a =bad-hair day. Ueno, however, is the only woman to have beaten Deep Zen.
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Btw, I noticed Ueno is a pupil of Fujisawa Kazunari (Rina's dad but not teacher, Shuko's son), I wonder who he was cheering for! I suppose he can be happy whoever wins
Rina's teacher was the Korean amateur Hong Malk-eun Saem, who now has a Kansai Ki-in allegiance as a pro, so her own allegiances look even more mixed up than you suggest. The choice of Hong may have been to do with him settling in Yokohama near to Rina, and his wife, a Japanese amateur, may well have been part of Rina's go circle (there would have been a large age gap, of course, but Rina started studying go at age 6). I don't know, but Kazunari may have been helping Hong get established, and he seems to have had too many pupils to give Rina the attention she needed. Kazunari has about ten pupils now in the pro ranks, the most notable perhaps being Motoki Katsuya who has already challenged for the Honinbo title and is still only 22.