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13th 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 Honda Kunihisa, Hashimoto Utaro and Iwamoto Kaoru.

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 6-2 B+4 B+2 W+8 W+R
2. Otake Hideo 5-3 B+R B+5 W+R W+R
3. Yamabe Toshiro 5-3 B+R B+R B+R W+R
4. Fujisawa Shuko 5-3 B+1 W+T B+R W+0
5. Fujisawa Hosai 5-3 W+R B+R W+R W+R
6. Sugiuchi Masao 1-7 B+R B+R W+1 B+R
7. Hashimoto Utaro 5-3 B+R B+13 W+R B+3
8. Honda Kunihisa 2-6 B+R B+R B+4 W+12
9. Iwamoto Kaoru 2-6 B+15 B+R B+15 W+R

Sugiuchi Masao, Honda Kunihisa, and Iwamoto Kaoru are demoted.

13th Old Meijin Title

# date black white result #mv sgf
1 1974-08-28,29 Ishida Yoshio Rin Kaiho B+R 213 sgf
2 1974-09-09,10 Rin Kaiho Ishida Yoshio B+R 213 sgf
3 1974-09-17,18 Ishida Yoshio Rin Kaiho W+7 218 sgf
4 1974-09-25,26 Rin Kaiho Ishida Yoshio W+6 250 sgf
5 1974-10-03,04 Ishida Yoshio Rin Kaiho B+1 278 sgf
6 1974-10-15,16 Rin Kaiho Ishida Yoshio B+R 213 sgf
7 1974-10-23,24 Rin Kaiho Ishida Yoshio W+2 251 sgf

Ishida Yoshio won 4-3.