19th 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	1993-10-28	Komatsu Hideki	Kataoka Satoshi	W+R	sgf
Qualification final	1993-11-04	Kudo Norio	Sato Masaharu	W+2.5	sgf
Qualification final	1993-11-11	Kojima Takaho	Awaji Shuzo	W+1.5	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	3-5		B+4.5		W+0.5		B+R		W+R
2.	Cho Chikun	6-2			W+R		B+R		W+R		W+0.5
3.	Takemiya Masaki	4-4	W+R			W+2.5		B+4.5		B+1.5
4.	Yoda Norimoto	2-6		B+2.5			W+3.5		W+R		B+0.5
5.	Rin Kaiho	6-2	W+R		B+R			W+R		W+2.5
6.	Kato Masao	6-2		B+R		W+4.5			W+R		W+1.5
7.	Sato Masaharu	0-8	B+R		B+R		B+R			B+R
8.	Awaji Shuzo	4-4		W+0.5		W+R		B+R			B+R
9.	Kataoka Satoshi	5-3	W+R		W+8.5		B+R		W+R

Sato Masaharu, Yoda Norimoto, and Otake Hideo are demoted.

Playoff

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

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Challenger playoff	1994-08-15	Cho Chikun	Rin Kaiho	W+R	sgf

19th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1994-09-07,08	Rin Kaiho	Kobayashi Koichi	W+2.5	sgf
2	1994-09-21,22	Kobayashi Koichi	Rin Kaiho	B+R	sgf
3	1994-10-05,06	Rin Kaiho	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	sgf
4	1994-10-12,13	Kobayashi Koichi	Rin Kaiho	B+3.5	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-0.