7th Honinbo title

Preliminaries

The finals of the (only) preliminary were won by Segawa Yoshio, Tainaka Shin, Takagawa Kaku, and Miyashita Shuyo.

League

In the first column the white player, on the top row the black player.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1.	Kitani Minoru	4-2		B+2.5	B+7.5			W+3.5
2.	Takagawa Kaku	4-2				B+R	B+R		W+R
3.	Sakata Eio	4-2		B+R			B+0.5		W+R
4.	Miyashita Shuyo	4-2	B+R		B+R			W+R
5.	Tainaka Shin	4-2	B+R			B+3.5		W+7.5
6.	Hasegawa Akira	1-5		B+R	B+R				W+5.5
7.	Segawa Yoshio	0-6	B+0.5			B+R	B+R

Challenger Playoff

The League ended in an unfortunate result: five players scored four wins. A small knockout tournament decided on the challenger, and two additional games on the demotion.

League Playoff
Tainaka Shin		Takagawa Kaku W+R 1952-04-09,10	Takagawa Kaku B+R 1952-04-23,24
Takagawa Kaku		Takagawa Kaku W+R 1952-04-09,10
Miyashita Shuyo		Sakata Eio W+R 1952-04-09,10
Sakata Eio	Sakata Eio B+5.5 1952-04-02,03
Kitani Minoru	Sakata Eio B+5.5 1952-04-02,03

Demotion Playoff

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1952-11-19,20	Miyashita Shuyo	Tainaka Shin	B+2.5	234	sgf
1952-12-03,04	Tainaka Shin	Kitani Minoru	W+R	158	sgf

7th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1952-06-25,26	Takagawa Kaku	Hashimoto Utaro	W+R	208	sgf
1952-07-09,10	Hashimoto Utaro	Takagawa Kaku	W+8.5	244	sgf
1952-07-23,24	Takagawa Kaku	Hashimoto Utaro	B+R	223	sgf
1952-08-06,07	Hashimoto Utaro	Takagawa Kaku	W+3.5	235	sgf
1952-08-20,21	Takagawa Kaku	Hashimoto Utaro	B+R	169	sgf

Takagawa Kaku won 4-1.

As Honinbo, Takagawa took the name Honinbo Shukaku.