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10th 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 Sugiuchi Masao, Shimamura Toshihiro and Sato Sunao.

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.	Rin Kaiho	6-2		W+R	B+R		W+R			W+
2.	Honda Kunihisa	4-4			B+R		W+R		W+	B+
3.	Takagawa Shukaku	5-3				B+R		B+3	B+R		W+R
4.	Otake Hideo	4-4	B+R	B+R			W+4
5.	Kajiwara Takeo	1-7			B+2
6.	Fujisawa Hosai	5-3	B+R	W+R
7.	Shimamura Toshihiro	6-2	W+2			W+R
8.	Sugiuchi Masao	4-4			B+R	W+R			B+3
9.	Sato Sunao	1-7	B+R	B+1

Sato Sunao, Kajiwara Takeo, and Sugiuchi Masao are demoted.

10th Old Meijin Title

#	date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1	1971-08-20,21	Fujisawa Shuko	Rin Kaiho	W+R	178	sgf
2	1971-09-01,02	Rin Kaiho	Fujisawa Shuko	B+R	145	sgf
3	1971-09-09,10	Fujisawa Shuko	Rin Kaiho	B+2	248	sgf
4	1971-09-17,18	Rin Kaiho	Fujisawa Shuko	W+R	192	sgf
5	1971-09-27,28	Fujisawa Shuko	Rin Kaiho	W+R	192	sgf
6	1971-10-05,06	Rin Kaiho	Fujisawa Shuko	B+R	165	sgf

Rin Kaiho won 4-2.