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12th 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, Yamabe Toshiro, Hoshino Toshi.

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.	Ishida Yoshio	8-0			W+R		W+1	W+1
2.	Fujisawa Shuko	5-3	B+R			W+R	W+4	W+R
3.	Otake Hideo	6-2		W+1					B+R	W+3	W+R
4.	Fujisawa Hosai	3-5			B+R		W+R	W+R
5.	Kada Katsuji	1-7			B+R			B+8	B+R		W+R
6.	Shimamura Toshihiro	2-6			B+13				B+R	W+6	B+R
7.	Yamabe Toshiro	6-2	B+R	B+R						W+R	W+R
8.	Hoshino Toshi	1-7	B+R	B+R		B+R	W+0
9.	Sugiuchi Masao	4-4	B+R	W+R		W+R				W+R

Hoshino Toshi, Kada Katsuji, and Shimamura Toshihiro are demoted.

12th Old Meijin Title

#	date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1	1973-08-28,29	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	W+0	241	sgf
2	1973-09-05,06	Ishida Yoshio	Rin Kaiho	B+5	251	sgf
3	1973-09-13,14	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	W+2	261	sgf
4	1973-09-25,26	Ishida Yoshio	Rin Kaiho	W+0	264	sgf
5	1973-10-02,03	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	B+R	195	sgf
6	1973-10-11,12	Ishida Yoshio	Rin Kaiho	W+0	288	sgf
7	1973-10-19,20	Ishida Yoshio	Rin Kaiho	W+R	228	sgf

Rin Kaiho won 4-3.