9th Kisei

The 9th Kisei was the 9th edition of the Kisei tournament. Since Cho Chikun won the previous year, he is given an automatic place in the final. Eight players battled in a knockout tournament to decide the final 2. Those two would then play each other in a best-of-3 match to decide who would face Cho. Takemiya Masaki became the challenger after beating Kobayashi Koichi 2 games to 1, but lost to Cho 4 games to 3.

Tournament

Round16
|Koichi Kobayashi "Judan"|1|-|0
|Yuichi Sonoda "9 dan"|1|Yutaka Shiraishi "9 dan"|0
|Satoru Kobayashi "8 dan"|0|Hideo Otake "Gosei"|1
|Masao Kato "Oza"|1|-|0
|Shuzo Awaji "9 dan"|0|Masaki Takemiya "9 dan"|1
|Eio Sakata "9 dan"|1|-|0
|Rin Kaiho "Honinbo"|1|-|0
|Satoshi Kataoka "Tengen"|1|-|0
|Koichi Kobayashi "Judan"|1|Yuichi Sonoda "9 dan"|0
|Hideo Otake "Gosei"|1|Masao Kato "Oza"|0
|Masaki Takemiya "9 dan"|1|Eio Sakata "9 dan"|0
|Rin Kaiho "Honinbo"|0|Satoshi Kataoka "Tengen"|1
|Koichi Kobayashi "Judan"|1|Hideo Otake "Gosei"|0
|Masaki Takemiya "9 dan"|1|Satoshi Kataoka "Tengen"|0
|Koichi Kobayashi "Judan"|1|Masaki Takemiya "9 dan"|2
3rdplace=no

Challenger finals

Finals

Kisei
preceded=8th Kisei
succeeded=10th Kisei