4th Meijin title

Newcomers

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted, and entrance matches determine which three new players enter the League.

game	date	black	white	result	#moves	sgf
Qualification final	1978-11-16	Shimamura Toshihiro	Yamashiro Hiroshi	W+2.5	277	sgf
Qualification final	1978-11-22	Kajiwara Takeo	Ushinohama Satsuo	W+8.5	279	sgf
Qualification final	1978-11-30	Yamabe Toshiro	Takemiya Masaki	W+R	136	sgf

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.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Rin Kaiho	4-4		W+R		W+R		B+2.5		B+R
2.	Kato Masao	5-3			B+4.5		W+2.5		W+1.5		W+R
3.	Sakata Eio	6-2	W+0.5			W+0.5		W+R		W+R
4.	Cho Chikun	4-4		W+4.5			B+R		B+R		W+3.5
5.	Hashimoto Utaro	4-4	B+R		B+4.5			W+R		B+R
6.	Ishida Yoshio	3-5		B+R		B+1.5			W+3.5		W+3.5
7.	Ushinohama Satsuo	2-6	B+R		W+21.5		B+8.5			B+2.5
8.	Takemiya Masaki	5-3		B+5.5		B+4.5		W+1.5			W+4.5
9.	Yamashiro Hiroshi	3-5	W+9.5		W+4.5		B+R		W+4.5

Ushinohama Satsuo, Yamashiro Hiroshi, and Ishida Yoshio are demoted.

4th Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1979-09-12,13	Otake Hideo	Sakata Eio	B+6.5	254	sgf
1979-09-26,27	Sakata Eio	Otake Hideo	W+0.5	248	sgf
1979-10-03,04	Otake Hideo	Sakata Eio	W+R	168	sgf
1979-10-17,18	Sakata Eio	Otake Hideo	W+R	168	sgf
1979-10-23,24	Otake Hideo	Sakata Eio	B+7.5	245	sgf

Otake Hideo won 4-1.