shogi

Japanese strategy board game
CreativeWork chess_variant Q131375
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shogi

Summary

shogi is a chess variant[1]. shogi ranks in the top 2% of chess_variant entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,542 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • shogi is in the country of Japan[3].
  • shogi's instance of is recorded as chess variant[4].
  • shogi is a type of mind sport[5].
  • shogi is a type of abstract strategy game[6].
  • shogi is a type of game on cell board[7].
  • shogi is a type of chess[8].
  • shogi's Commons category is recorded as Shōgi[9].
  • shogi's Unicode character is recorded as ☖[10].
  • shogi's Unicode character is recorded as ☗[11].
  • shogi's country of origin is recorded as Japan[12].
  • shogi's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Shogi[13].
  • shogi's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • shogi's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/shogi[15].
  • shogi's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '将棋'}[16].
  • shogi's minimum number of players is recorded as {'amount': '+2'}[17].
  • shogi's maximum number of players is recorded as {'amount': '+2'}[18].
  • shogi's different from is recorded as Q16676703[19].
  • shogi's history of topic is recorded as history of shogi[20].
  • shogi's hashtag is recorded as 将棋[21].
  • shogi's practiced by is recorded as professional shogi player[22].
  • shogi's practiced by is recorded as female shogi player[23].
  • shogi's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Q140249898[24].
  • shogi's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[25].

Why It Matters

shogi ranks in the top 2% of chess_variant entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,542 views/month).[2] shogi has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] shogi is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (1st edition). wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'bar', 'bcl', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo
    Gnd id → 4359401-3
    Sitelink count → 61
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Q140249898
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  3. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Shogi
    Country of origin → —
    Subclass of → mind sport, abstract strategy game, game on cell board +1
    Maximum number of players → {'amount': '+2'}
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007538961705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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