12th Old Meijin title

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# 12th 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.

## 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. | Ishida Yoshio | 7-1 |  |  | W+R |  | W+1 | W+1 |  |  |
2. | Fujisawa Shuko | 5-3 | B+R |  |  | W+R | W+4 | W+R |  |  |
3. | Otake Hideo | 6-2 |  | W+1 |  |  |  |  | B+R | W+3 | W+R
4. | Fujisawa Hosai | 4-4 |  |  | B+R |  | W+R | W+R |  |  |
5. | Kada Katsuji | 1-7 |  |  | B+R |  |  | B+8 | B+R |  | W+R
6. | Shimamura Toshihiro | 2-6 |  |  | B+13 |  |  |  | B+R | W+6 | B+
7. | Yamabe Toshiro | 6-2 | B+R | B+R |  |  |  |  |  | W+R | W+R
8. | Hoshino Toshi | 1-7 | B+R | B+R |  | B+R | W+0 |  |  |  |
9. | Sugiuchi Masao | 4-4 | B+R | W+R |  | W+R |  |  |  | W+R |

Hoshino Toshi, Kada Katsuji, and Shimamura Toshihiro are demoted.

## 12th Old Meijin Title

game | date | black | white | result | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 1973-08-28,29 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | W+0 | sgf
2 | 1973-09-05,06 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | B+5 | sgf
3 | 1973-09-13,14 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | W+2 | sgf
4 | 1973-09-25,26 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | W+0 | sgf
5 | 1973-10-02,03 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | B+R | sgf
6 | 1973-10-11,12 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | W+0 | sgf
7 | 1973-10-19,20 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | W+R | sgf

Rin Kaiho won with 4-3.