9th Old Meijin title

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# 9th Old Meijin title

The first 14 years (1962-1975) the Meijin Title was sponsored by the Yomiuri newspaper. This period is known as "Old Meijin" or "Meijin (Yomiuri)". In 1976 the Asahi newspaper took over, and a new numbering started from 1.

## Preliminaries

The finals of the last preliminaries were won by Kajiwara Takeo, Yamabe Toshiro and Honda Kunihisa.

## League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player). The ordering of the first six players is according to their results in the previous year. The last three are the winners of the entrance matches (in some order).

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Takagawa Shukaku | 5-3 |  |  |  |  | B+1 | W+0 |  | W+R | B+3
2. | Fujisawa Shuko | 6-2 | B+6 |  |  |  | W+4 | W+R |  | W+2 |
3. | Fujisawa Hosai | 4-4 | B+R | B+R |  |  |  | B+ | B+R |  |
4. | Hashimoto Shoji | 1-7 | W+R | B+3 | B+ |  |  |  | B+ |  |
5. | Sakata Eio | 4-4 |  |  | B+R | W+1 |  |  | W+ |  | B+1
6. | Otake Hideo | 5-3 |  |  |  | W+ | W+3 |  |  | W+ | W+
7. | Kajiwara Takeo | 5-3 | B+R | B+11 |  |  |  | W+R |  | W+ |
8. | Yamabe Toshiro | 1-7 |  |  | B+ | W+0 | B+R |  |  |  | B+
9. | Honda Kunihisa | 5-3 |  | W+1 | B+ | W+ |  |  | B+ |  |

Yamabe Toshiro, Hashimoto Shoji, and Sakata Eio are demoted.

## 9th Old Meijin Title

game | date | black | white | result | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 1970-08-28,29 | Rin Kaiho | Fujisawa Shuko | W+4 | sgf
2 | 1970-09-07,08 | Fujisawa Shuko | Rin Kaiho | W+R | sgf
3 | 1970-09-15,16 | Rin Kaiho | Fujisawa Shuko | B+R | sgf
4 | 1970-09-24,25 | Fujisawa Shuko | Rin Kaiho | B+5 | sgf
5 | 1970-10-06,07 | Rin Kaiho | Fujisawa Shuko | W+3 | sgf
6 | 1970-10-16,17 | Fujisawa Shuko | Rin Kaiho | B+3 | sgf

Fujisawa Shuko won with 4-2.