21st 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	1995-11-09	Kojima Takaho	Yoda Norimoto	W+1.5	sgf
Qualification final	1995-11-16	Kudo Norio	Ryu Shikun	B+3.5	sgf
Qualification final	1995-11-09	Otake Hideo	O Meien	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.	Kobayashi Koichi	5-3			W+1.5		W+2.5		W+R		B+6.5
2.	O Rissei	6-2	B+3.5			W+4.5		W+3.5		W+R
3.	Cho Chikun	7-1		W+R			W+R		W+0.5		W+3.5
4.	Kato Masao	6-2	W+R		B+0.5			W+R		W+3.5
5.	Kataoka Satoshi	4-4		B+R		B+R			W+R		W+4.5
6.	Rin Kaiho	3-5	W+R		B+3.5		B+4.5			B+R
7.	Yoda Norimoto	0-8		B+3.5		B+R		B+10.5			B+R
8.	Kudo Norio	2-6	B+R		B+14.5		B+11.5		W+0.5
9.	O Meien	3-5		B+6.5		B+R		B+2.5		W+3.5

Yoda Norimoto, Kudo Norio and O Meien are demoted.

21st Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1996-09-06,07	Cho Chikun	Takemiya Masaki	B+R	sgf
2	1996-09-18,19	Takemiya Masaki	Cho Chikun	B+R	sgf
3	1996-10-02,03	Cho Chikun	Takemiya Masaki	B+11.5	sgf
4	1996-10-09,10	Takemiya Masaki	Cho Chikun	W+R	sgf
5	1996-10-23,24	Cho Chikun	Takemiya Masaki	W+R	sgf
6	1996-11-06,07	Takemiya Masaki	Cho Chikun	W+R	sgf

Cho Chikun won 4-2.