Participants were 5-7 dan, from Nihon Ki-in Tokyo only. Until 1974 the final was a single game. From 1975 on, the final was a best-of-three. Komi was 4.5 until 1974, 5.5 from 1975. Allotted time was 4h each.
# | year | winner | opponent | sgf |
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1 | 1957 | Fujisawa Hideyuki | Ohira Shuzo | sgf |
2 | 1958 | Okubo Ichigen | Kajiwara Takeo | sgf |
3 | 1959 | Hasegawa Akira | Shinohara Masami | |
4 | 1960 | Ohira Shuzo | Suzuki Goro | sgf |
5 | 1961 | Kano Yoshinori | Sakakibara Shoji | sgf |
6 | 1962 | Hayashi Yutaro | Okubo Ichigen | sgf |
7 | 1963 | Sakakibara Shoji | Shinohara Masami | sgf |
8 | 1964 | Miwa Yoshiro | Sakakibara Shoji | sgf |
9 | 1965 | Otake Hideo | Kageyama Toshiro | sgf |
10 | 1966 | Hoshino Toshi | Kageyama Toshiro | sgf |
11 | 1967 | Suzuki Goro | Oeda Yusuke | sgf |
12 | 1968 | Ishida Yoshio | Takagi Shoichi | sgf |
13 | 1969 | Takagi Shoichi | Ishigure Ikuro | sgf |
14 | 1970 | Kojima Takaho | Ishigure Ikuro | sgf |
15 | 1971 | Takemiya Masaki | Kurosawa Tadanao | sgf |
16 | 1972 | Kobayashi Koichi | Cho Chikun | sgf |
17 | 1973 | Takemiya Masaki | Kato Masao | sgf |
18 | 1974 | Kobayashi Koichi | Tozawa Akinobu | sgf |
19 | 1975 | Takagi Shoichi | Kojima Takaho | 1 2 3 |
20 | 1976 | Kobayashi Koichi | Ishida Akira | 1 2 |
21 | 1977 | Awaji Shuzo | Fukui Masaaki | 1 2 3 |
22 | 1978 | Nakamura Hidehito | Kanashima Tadashi | 1 2 |
23 | 1979 | Haruyama Isamu | Umeki Suguru | 1 2 |
24 | 1980 | Fukui Masaaki | O Rissei | 1 2 3 |
25 | 1981 | Awaji Shuzo | Kataoka Satoshi | 1 2 |