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3rd 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 Miyashita Shuyo, Nakamura Yutaro and Rin Kaiho.

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. Fujisawa Shuko 7-1 W+2 W+15 B+R W+R
2. Go Seigen 6-2 W+R B+5 W+R W+2
3. Fujisawa Hosai 6-2 W+F W+R W+R W+
4. Kitani Minoru 6-2 W+R B+3 W+ W+7
5. Miyamoto Naoki 2-6 B+4 B+R B+ B+R
6. Hashimoto Shoji 4-4 B+3 B+R W+ W+F
7. Rin Kaiho 4-4 W+9 B+6 W+R W+7
8. Nakamura Yutaro 1-7 B+R B+ B+ W+
9. Miyashita Shuyo 0-8 B+6 B+R B+ B+

Once more:

# player result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Fujisawa Shuko 7-1 W+2 W+15 B+R W+R
2. Go Seigen 6-2 W+R B+5 W+R W+2
3. Fujisawa Hosai 6-2 W+F W+R W+ W+R
4. Kitani Minoru 6-2 B+3 W+ W+R W+7
5. Rin Kaiho 4-4 W+R B+6 W+7 W+9
6. Nakamura Yutaro 1-7 B+R B+ W+ B+
7. Hashimoto Shoji 4-4 B+3 B+R W+F W+
8. Miyashita Shuyo 0-8 B+6 B+R B+ B+
9. Miyamoto Naoki 2-6 B+4 B+R B+ B+R

Or again:

# player result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Kitani Minoru 6-2 B+3 W+ W+R W+7
2. Miyamoto Naoki 2-6 B+R B+4 B+R B+
3. Rin Kaiho 4-4 W+9 W+R B+6 W+7
4. Fujisawa Shuko 7-1 B+R W+R W+2 W+15
5. Nakamura Yutaro 1-7 B+ B+R B+ W+
6. Go Seigen 6-2 B+5 W+R W+2 W+R
7. Hashimoto Shoji 4-4 W+ B+3 B+R W+F
8. Fujisawa Hosai 6-2 W+F W+R W+ W+R
9. Miyashita Shuyo 0-8 B+ B+6 B+R B+

Miyashita Shuyo, Nakamura Yutaro, and Miyamoto Naoki are demoted.

3rd Old Meijin Title

# date black white result #mv sgf
1 1964-07-29,30 Fujisawa Shuko Sakata Eio W+4 255 sgf
2 1964-08-08,09 Sakata Eio Fujisawa Shuko W+2 279 sgf
3 1964-08-18,19 Fujisawa Shuko Sakata Eio W+R 248 sgf
4 1964-08-27,28 Sakata Eio Fujisawa Shuko B+R 179 sgf
5 1964-09-06,07 Fujisawa Shuko Sakata Eio W+R 188 sgf

Sakata Eio won 4-1.