14th 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	1988-10-06	Honda Kunihisa	Yamashiro Hiroshi	B+3.5	sgf
Qualification final	1988-10-06	Ohira Shuzo	Kamimura Kunio	W+5.5	sgf
Qualification final	1988-10-13	Awaji Shuzo	Kataoka Satoshi	B+4.5	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.	Kato Masao	3-5			W+0.5		W+R		B+R		B+R
2.	Rin Kaiho	6-2	W+1.5			W+R		W+1.5		W+R
3.	Cho Chikun	4-4		W+5.5			B+R		B+1.5		W+R
4.	Fujisawa Shuko	3-5	W+1.5		B+R			B+7.5		B+R
5.	Takemiya Masaki	5-3		W+R		W+1.5			B+8.5		W+R
6.	Ishida Yoshio	3-5	B+R		B+4.5		W+6.5			B+R
7.	Honda Kunihisa	4-4		B+0.5		B+R		B+R			W+R
8.	Awaji Shuzo	6-2	W+1.5		W+1.5		B+R		W+R
9.	Kamimura Kunio	2-6		B+R		B+R		W+0.5		B+6.5

Kamimura Kunio, Ishida Yoshio, and Fujisawa Shuko are demoted.

Playoff

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

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Challenger playoff	1989-08-14	Rin Kaiho	Awaji Shuzo	W+2.5	sgf

14th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1989-09-14,15	Kobayashi Koichi	Awaji Shuzo	W+3.5	sgf
2	1989-09-27,28	Awaji Shuzo	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	sgf
3	1989-10-04,05	Kobayashi Koichi	Awaji Shuzo	B+3.5	sgf
4	1989-10-18,19	Awaji Shuzo	Kobayashi Koichi	W+2.5	sgf
5	1989-11-01,02	Kobayashi Koichi	Awaji Shuzo	B+R	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-1.