16th 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	1990-10-04	Kato Masao	Ishii Kunio	W+2.5	sgf
Qualification final	1990-10-04	Mimura Tomoyasu	Ota Seido	B+3.5	sgf
Qualification final	1990-10-25	Fujisawa Shuko	Ohira Shuzo	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.	Otake Hideo	3-5		B+5.5		B+R		W+R		W+R
2.	Takemiya Masaki	6-2			W+R		B+2.5		B+0.5		W+R
3.	Cho Chikun	4-4	W+R			B+R		B+0.5		W+R
4.	Awaji Shuzo	3-5		B+R			B+R		B+R		W+R
5.	Rin Kaiho	8-0	W+R		W+0.5			W+R		W+1.5
6.	Yoda Norimoto	4-4		B+0.5		W+3.5			W+R		B+2.5
7.	Fujisawa Shuko	4-4	W+R		B+R		B+2.5			B+R
8.	Ishii Kunio	2-6		B+4.5		W+3.5		B+R			B+1.5
9.	Mimura Tomoyasu	2-6	B+R		B+R		B+3.5		B+2.5

Mimura Tomoyasu, Ishii Kunio, and Awaji Shuzo are demoted.

16th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1991-09-11,12	Rin Kaiho	Kobayashi Koichi	W+2.5	sgf
2	1991-09-25,26	Kobayashi Koichi	Rin Kaiho	W+2.5	sgf
3	1991-10-02,03	Rin Kaiho	Kobayashi Koichi	W+3.5	sgf
4	1991-10-16,17	Kobayashi Koichi	Rin Kaiho	B+5.5	sgf
5	1991-10-23,24	Rin Kaiho	Kobayashi Koichi	W+3.5	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-1.