9th 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	sgf
Qualification final	1983-10-20	Takagi Shoichi	Kataoka Satoshi	B+10.5	sgf
Qualification final	1983-10-20	Fujisawa Hosai	Kobayashi Satoru	W+13.5	sgf
Qualification final	1983-10-27	Hashimoto Shoji	Hane Yasumasa	B+3.5	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.	Otake Hideo	5-3			W+0.5		W+2.5		W+R		B+R
2.	Rin Kaiho	4-4	B+R			B+2.5		B+R		B+R
3.	Kato Masao	4-4		B+1.5			W+1.5		W+2.5		W+R
4.	Kobayashi Koichi	5-3	W+R		W+R			B+R		B+2.5
5.	Sakata Eio	2-6		B+1.5		B+4.5			B+2.5		W+R
6.	Ishida Akira	5-3	W+R		W+R		B+R			B+R
7.	Hashimoto Shoji	3-5		B+5.5		B+R		W+0.5			W+R
8.	Takagi Shoichi	5-3	B+R		B+6.5		W+0.5		W+1.5
9.	Kobayashi Satoru	3-5		B+R		W+3.5		B+R		W+0.5

Sakata Eio, Kobayashi Satoru, and Hashimoto Shoji are demoted.

Playoff

Otake Hideo and Kobayashi Koichi both had 6 wins, and played a challenger playoff that was won by Otake Hideo.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Challenger playoff	1984-08-23	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	B+R	sgf

9th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1984-09-12,13	Otake Hideo	Cho Chikun	B+2.5	sgf
2	1984-09-26,27	Cho Chikun	Otake Hideo	W+R	sgf
3	1984-10-03,04	Otake Hideo	Cho Chikun	B+R	sgf
4	1984-10-17,18	Cho Chikun	Otake Hideo	B+1.5	sgf
5	1984-10-24,25	Otake Hideo	Cho Chikun	W+R	sgf
6	1984-11-07,08	Cho Chikun	Otake Hideo	B+3.5	sgf
7	1984-11-14,15	Otake Hideo	Cho Chikun	W+R	sgf

Cho Chikun won 4-3.