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The Katsura Blueprint: Auditing Masako Katsura’s 1952 Gender Disruption in Professional Billiards
Lead Forensic Researcher Shamima Khatoon Business Journalist Audit Published April 17, 2026 Ref: EM-HIST-BILI-1952-01 In March 1952, Masako Katsura initiated a permanent structural shift in professional cuesports at the World Three-Cushion Billiards tournament in San Francisco. Her qualification was not a concession to gender representation, but a calculated demonstration of technical parity. Katsura empirically proved