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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.

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 entrance matches (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

13th Old Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1974-08-28	Ishida Yoshio	Rin Kaiho	B+R	sgf
2	1974-09-09	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	B+R	sgf
3	1974-09-17	Ishida Yoshio	Rin Kaiho	W+7	sgf
4	1974-09-25	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	W+6	sgf
5	1974-10-03	Ishida Yoshio	Rin Kaiho	B+1	sgf
6	1974-10-15	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	B+R	sgf
7	1974-10-23	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	W+2	sgf

Ishida Yoshio won with 4-3.