Up 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 Asahi

4th 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 Sakakibara Shoji, Ohira Shuzo and Takagawa Shukaku.

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
1. Fujisawa Shuko 4-3 W+2 B+5 B+3
2. Go Seigen 0-7 B+11 B+3 B+2 B+3
3. Fujisawa Hosai 4-3 W+6 B+R W+
4. Hashimoto Shoji 5-2 W+R W+R W+R
5. Rin Kaiho 6-1 W+R W+4 W+R B+5
6. Ohira Shuzo 4-3 W+R W+21 W+R W+2
7. Takagawa Shukaku 3-4 B+R W+R B+R
8. Sakakibara Shoji 2-5 B+R B+R B+5

Kitani Minoru did not play because of illness. He, Go Seigen, and Sakakibara Shoji were demoted.

4th Old Meijin Title

# date black white result #mv sgf
1 1965-07-29,30 Sakata Eio Rin Kaiho B+R 211 sgf
2 1965-08-08,09 Rin Kaiho Sakata Eio B+4 222 sgf
3 1965-08-19,20 Sakata Eio Rin Kaiho W+0 306 sgf
4 1965-08-29,30 Rin Kaiho Sakata Eio B+3 247 sgf
5 1965-09-08,09 Sakata Eio Rin Kaiho B+R 227 sgf
6 1965-09-18,19 Rin Kaiho Sakata Eio B+12 224 sgf

Rin Kaiho won 4-2.