13th 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	1987-11-05	Ohira Shuzo	Takagi Shoichi	B+R	sgf
Qualification final	1987-11-05	Shiraishi Yutaka	Ishida Yoshio	W+2.5	sgf
Qualification final	1987-11-05	Yamashiro Hiroshi	Awaji Shuzo	W+R	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	6-2			B+0.5		W+R		W+3.5		W+6.5
2.	Kobayashi Koichi	6-2	W+4.5			W+R		B+0.5		B+R
3.	Cho Chikun	5-3		B+R			W+R		W+0.5		B+R
4.	Ishida Akira	0-8	B+R		B+0.5			B+R		B+R
5.	Takemiya Masaki	4-4		B+2.5		W+R			B+R		W+R
6.	Fujisawa Shuko	5-3	B+R		W+4.5		B+R			W+2.5
7.	Ishida Yoshio	4-4		B+2.5		W+R		W+2.5			W+R
8.	Ohira Shuzo	3-5	B+R		B+R		B+R		W+1.5
9.	Awaji Shuzo	3-5		B+R		W+R		B+2.5		W+R

Ishida Akira, Awaji Shuzo, and Ohira Shuzo are demoted.

Playoff

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

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Challenger playoff	1988-08-15	Kobayashi Koichi	Rin Kaiho	B+16.5	sgf

13th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1988-09-07,08	Kato Masao	Kobayashi Koichi	B+R	sgf
2	1988-09-20,21	Kobayashi Koichi	Kato Masao	B+R	sgf
3	1988-09-28,29	Kato Masao	Kobayashi Koichi	W+2.5	sgf
4	1988-10-12,13	Kobayashi Koichi	Kato Masao	B+R	sgf
5	1988-10-19,20	Kato Masao	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-1.