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5th 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 Hisai Keishi, Handa Dogen and Kajiwara Takeo.

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.	Sakata Eio	5-3		W+2		W+R	B+2	B+7
2.	Hashimoto Shoji	5-3			W+2					B+1
3.	Fujisawa Shuko	5-3	B+R				W+2			W+R	B+R
4.	Fujisawa Hosai	5-3			B+R				W+6
5.	Ohira Shuzo	4-4						W+2
6.	Takagawa Shukaku	4-4		B+R	B+2	B+			W+6
7.	Handa Dogen	4-4	W+11		B+4					W+7
8.	Kajiwara Takeo	1-7	B+				B+R	B+R
9.	Hisai Keishi	3-5	B+					B+2

Kajiwara Takeo, Hisai Keishi, and Handa Dogen are demoted.

5th Old Meijin Title

#	date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1	1966-08-05,06	Sakata Eio	Rin Kaiho	W+0	294	sgf
2	1966-08-13,14	Rin Kaiho	Sakata Eio	B+5	333	sgf
3	1966-08-23,24	Sakata Eio	Rin Kaiho	B+1	271	sgf
4	1966-09-02,03	Rin Kaiho	Sakata Eio	B+4	268	sgf
5	1966-09-12,13	Sakata Eio	Rin Kaiho	W+9	271	sgf

Rin Kaiho won 4-1.