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2nd Old Meijin title

The first 14 years (1962-1975) the Meijin Title was sponsored by the Yomiuri newspaper. This period is known as "Old Meijin" or "Meijin (Yomiuri)". In 1976 the Asahi newspaper took over, and a new numbering started from 1.

Preliminaries

The finals of the last preliminaries were won by Miyamoto Naoki, Suzuki Etsuo and Hayashi Yutaro.

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 preliminaries (in some order).

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Go Seigen	5-3		B+R	W+R				B+	W+6
2.	Sakata Eio	7-1			W+13	W+11			W+2	W+3
3.	Hashimoto Shoji	4-4				B+R		B+R		W+
4.	Kitani Minoru	4-4	W+2				B+2	B+R			W+R
5.	Handa Dogen	3-5	B+R	B+R	B+3				B+
6.	Fujisawa Hosai	5-3	B+R	W+12			B+				W+
7.	Miyamoto Naoki	5-3				W+1		W+34		B+4	W+R
8.	Hayashi Yutaro	2-6				B+10	W+	B+6			B+
9.	Suzuki Etsuo	1-7	B+R	B+R			B+R

Suzuki Etsuo, Hayashi Yutaro, and Handa Dogen are demoted.

2nd Old Meijin Title

#	date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1	1963-08-04,05	Sakata Eio	Fujisawa Shuko	B+1	242	sgf
2	1963-08-13,14	Fujisawa Shuko	Sakata Eio	W+0	261	sgf
3	1963-08-23,24	Sakata Eio	Fujisawa Shuko	W+13	256	sgf
4	1963-09-02,03	Fujisawa Shuko	Sakata Eio	B+12	291	sgf
5	1963-09-12,13	Sakata Eio	Fujisawa Shuko	W+2	215	sgf
6	1963-09-21,22	Fujisawa Shuko	Sakata Eio	W+R	172	sgf
7	1963-09-29,30	Fujisawa Shuko	Sakata Eio	W+R	178	sgf

Sakata Eio won 4-3.