15th 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	1989-10-19	Yoda Norimoto	Sakaguchi Ryuzo	B+R	sgf
Qualification final	1989-10-19	Kobayashi Satoru	Fujisawa Hideyuki	W+9.5	sgf
Qualification final	1989-10-26	Otake Hideo	Kataoka Satoshi	B+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.	Awaji Shuzo	4-4			W+2.5		W+R		B+R		B+1.5
2.	Rin Kaiho	4-4	W+2.5			W+R		W+R		B+5.5
3.	Takemiya Masaki	6-2		W+3.5			W+R		W+R		W+3.5
4.	Cho Chikun	5-3	B+R		W+R			W+R		W+R
5.	Honda Kunihisa	3-5		W+9.5		B+2.5			B+R		B+1.5
6.	Kato Masao	0-8	B+3.5		B+5.5		B+R			B+3.5
7.	Otake Hideo	7-1		W+R		W+R		W+2.5			W+R
8.	Fujisawa Shuko	3-5	W+3.5		B+R		B+R		B+R
9.	Yoda Norimoto	4-4		B+4.5		B+3.5		W+1.5		W+R

Kato Masao, Fujisawa Shuko, and Honda Kunihisa are demoted.

15th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1990-09-12,13	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	sgf
2	1990-09-26,27	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	W+2.5	sgf
3	1990-10-03,04	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	B+7.5	sgf
4	1990-10-17,18	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf
5	1990-10-25,26	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	sgf
6	1990-11-07,08	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-2.