1st Meijin
1st Meijin
The 1st [[meijin-(go)|Meijin]] was the first Meijin title sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The tournament used a nine player round robin league system. Hideo Otake won the last Old Meijin title and his title was honored as holder of the Meijin title. Shuchi Kubouchi, Takeo Kajiwara and Norio Kudo qualified through the preliminary stages while yoshio-ishida, hideyuki-fujisawa, Eio Sakata, Utaro Hashimoto, rin-kaiho, Toshiro Yamabe retained their places from the 14th Old Meijin. yoshio-ishida won the league and challenged Otake for the title. Otake won the title in five games.