41st Gosei title

Preliminaries

In the preliminaries, 24 players earned access to the main tournament.

Nihon Ki-in

18 players won the Nihon Ki-in preliminary A finals, namely Cho Riyu, Goto Shungo, Hane Naoki, Hikosaka Naoto, Ida Atsushi, Kanazawa Makoto, Kim Sujun, Kyo Kagen, Mitani Tetsuya, Mizokami Tomochika, Motoki Katsuya, Numadate Sakiya, Shibano Toramaru, Suzuki Shinji, Tsuruta Kazushi, Tsuruyama Atsushi, Uchida Shuhei, Yamada Shinji.

Kansai Ki-in

6 players won the Kansai Ki-in preliminary A finals, namely Kiyonari Tetsuya, Sada Atsushi, Sakai Hideyuki, Seto Taiki, Yo Seiki = Yu Zhengqi, Yuki Satoshi.

Tournament

There were 29 players, namely the 24 winners of the preliminaries, and the four semifinalists of last year's main tournament (Murakawa Daisuke, Yamashita Keigo, Kono Rin, Shida Tatsuya), and Takao Shinji (Tengen).

Hane Naoki	Hane Naoki W+2.5 2016-01-14	Sakai Hideyuki B+2.5 2016-03-10	Sakai Hideyuki B+2.5 2016-04-07	Murakawa Daisuke B+R 2016-04-21	Murakawa Daisuke W+4.5 2016-05-18
Kanazawa Makoto
Sakai Hideyuki	Sakai Hideyuki W+0.5 2016-01-07
Mitani Tetsuya
Kim Sujun	Seto Taiki W+R 2016-01-21	Seto Taiki B+R 2016-02-18
Seto Taiki
Yuki Satoshi	Takao Shinji B+5.5 2016-01-21
Takao Shinji
Motoki Katsuya	Motoki Katsuya W+R 2015-12-24	Motoki Katsuya W+2.5 2016-02-25	Murakawa Daisuke W+R 2016-03-17
Tsuruta Kazushi
Suzuki Shinji	Suzuki Shinji B+R 2015-12-21
Shibano Toramaru
Goto Shungo	Goto Shungo W+R 2015-12-17	Murakawa Daisuke W+R 2016-02-11
Hikosaka Naoto
Murakawa Daisuke
Kono Rin		Sada Atsushi W+R 2016-02-04	Sada Atsushi B+R 2016-03-24	Yamashita Keigo B+R 2016-05-05
Sada Atsushi	Sada Atsushi B+R 2015-12-24
Yamada Shinji
Cho Riyu	Tsuruyama Atsushi W+2.5 2015-12-17	Tsuruyama Atsushi B+R 2016-02-18
Tsuruyama Atsushi
Shida Tatsuya	Shida Tatsuya W+R 2015-12-24
Ida Atsushi
Yu Zhengqi	Yu Zhengqi W+R 2016-02-04	Yu Zhengqi B+R 2016-02-25	Yamashita Keigo B+1.5 2016-04-14
Uchida Shuhei
Kiyonari Tetsuya	Mizokami Tomochika W+R 2016-01-14
Mizokami Tomochika
Numadate Sakiya	Kyo Kagen W+R 2015-12-10	Yamashita Keigo W+1.5 2016-01-21
Kyo Kagen
Yamashita Keigo

41st Gosei title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2016-06-25	Iyama Yuta	Murakawa Daisuke	B+R	159	sgf
2016-07-18	Murakawa Daisuke	Iyama Yuta	W+R	150	sgf
2016-07-28	Iyama Yuta	Murakawa Daisuke	B+R	269	sgf

Iyama Yuta won 3-0.