Photo Gallery
It's been there for a while but I've done a mass upload of photos from mahjong tournaments across the world, it can accessed at https://osamuko.com/photos
It's been there for a while but I've done a mass upload of photos from mahjong tournaments across the world, it can accessed at https://osamuko.com/photos
My Nikon D3300 died during this trip due to torrential rain, so only have smartphone photos.
A collection of photos from the 2017 UK Open Riichi Championship in Godalming
Yostar has revealed details about the upcoming Akagi collaboration in a special live stream. The live stream was hosted by VTuber Airi, and twitch streamer Tipzntrix. It started with a brief introduction to Mahjong Soul and the Akagi series (as well as Ten), viewers were then shown a trailer featuring
Yostar has announced that the popular online mahjong game Mahjong Soul will hold a collaboration event with Nobuyuki Fukumoto's hit mahjong manga/anime series Akagi. This will be Mahjong Soul's fourth collaboration, previous collabs were with Linovel, Saki and Kakegurui. Details are scarce but will be posted here when more
Since 2013, bps, author of the definitive (at the time) English Tenhou Documentation (http://arcturus.su/tenhou/) has hosted the Japanese Mahjong Wiki however, due to their life getting busier they were looking for someone to take over as webmaster so I volunteered and have now taken over. This handover
A collection of photos from the 2017 Aachen Riichi Open.
A collection of photos from the 2017 Swedish Riichi Championship in Linkoping.
Tournaments
(Featured photo and various parts of this post are from Mahjong Watch [http://mj-news.net/game-app/2017022860658%22%3Ehttp://mj-news.net/game-app/2017022860658] in October of 2016, after finally planning my first ever trip to Japan with Daniel Moreno [https://twitter.com/xDasukex/] of PML, I emailed Shingo Tsunoda, creator
World Riichi Championship
Organization: Japan Professional Mahjong League Birthplace: Chiba Year born: 1958 Rank: 8 dan Years Pro: 23 Nickname(s): ? Favouite yaku: Sanshoku Doujun, Honitsu Titles: * 24th Hououi (2004) * 2nd World Riichi Championship (2017) International Tournament Results: * 1st World Riichi Championship 2014 (6/120) * 2nd World Riichi Championship 2017 (1/224) Ron2
World Riichi Championship
Day 3 - Thursday 5th I woke up rather early. Even though I went to bed at 3am, I woke up at 6am. Jet lag? I wasn't feeling tired though. While confirming where the breakfast was, I saw Toshiyuki Tomozoe-pro (Afro-pro) from Saikouisen in the shop next door to the
World Riichi Championship
The 2017 World Riichi Championship took place in Las Vegas last week and attracted 224 players, almost doubling the participant size from its predecessor, making it no doubt the largest Japanese mahjong tournament outside of Japan. Day 1 I arrived in Vegas on the 3rd of October and after attempting
World Riichi Championship
Hiroshi Yamai made history in 2014 by winning the first WRC. Will he be able to defend his title in 2017?
Players
Born in 1951, Onoda, Yamaguchi, Shigekazu Moriyama is the president of Japan Professional Mahjong League.
**1.Summer Global Open **(finished) (or Winter if you are in the southern hemisphere) It’s an open tournament, so everyone can register, provided that they are available at the designated time. Info: http://tinyurl.com/summerglobalopen Register: https://goo.gl/forms/UoKpGQeo3wIhNz4Y2 Tournament room: http://tenhou.net/0/?C10350560
Guides
Recently, I opened a new Discord server, with the purpose of having more quality discussions about the competitive aspect of the game. This is for people who want to improve and learn how to be as good as they can possibly be, and as such not recommended for people who
Guides
If you are a Tenhou player, you should have known that there are 4 different rooms for 4 different levels: Ippan, Joukyuu, Tokujou, Houou. Before getting to the main parts of this article, let’s see what those 4 levels are about – those descriptions are from the famous Riichi Book
Guides
First of all, I want to show you a really good video guide that was created recently. The author is DdR_Dan, a player from US, who is staying consistently at 6d on tenhou, even got 7d in the past. Although it’s a little long, in my opinion it’
Guides
Hey there, I’m starfire, a.k.a amaika on tenhou.net. Some of you might have known me, some might not. I have played riichi since 2012. Now that I have become a decent player, 7d at the time posting this (even though I’m fully aware that I
Mahjong News
Today’s the day; it’s time for Good Player Club’s 7th Grand Champion Cup. We’ve mentioned last year’s iteration in this blog. Our long-time friend Benjamin Boas is participating as part of the mahjong-loving association Good Player’s Club, home to other famous players like Akagi’
Mahjong News
MondoTV have uploaded 2 videos with English commentary by mahjong researcher Benjamin Boas and mahjong author Ryan Morris. Benjamin’s contribrutions to the community should be fairly well known to everyone, and Ryan’s less so. Ryan Morris is the author of the excellent but sadly now defunct “Japanese Mahjong
Mahjong News
Photo from Ben and Deniz This year JPML collaborated with Tenhou and hosted a 6 month long Tenhoui vs Renmei pro tournament. The first season used a Tenhou based ruleset with 50/20/0/70 uma, red fives, agari yame and tenpai yame. Final Playoff ResultsRankNameTenhoui #Total1Totorisensei 19sai11204.42Naoki SetokumaN/
Mahjong News
Hi there, We saw a glitch occur on the ERMC website. We are publishing a table of the top 16 as we see them, with no claims on accuracy, quality, or perfection. 1[Mikhail LUGOVKIN](http://live.ermc2016.com/Home/PlayerAnalysis/594)137,5502 [Désirée HEEMSKERK](http://live.ermc2016.com/
Guides
Having finally joined the Twitter bandwagon [https://twitter.com/Muller_Mahjong] I recently had the chance to chat with Makoto Fukuchi about a tile efficiency question found in a book he edited [https://www.amazon.co.jp/麻雀-傑作「何切る」300選-G・ウザク/dp/4861998948]. With the hand on the bottom, it's