6th Kisei

The 6th Kisei was the 6th edition of the Kisei tournament. Since Fujisawa Hideyuki 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 Fujisawa. Rin Kaiho became the challenger after beating Kobayashi Koichi 2 games to 0, but would lose 4 games to 3 against Fujisawa.

Main tournament

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                           
           
 Ikuro Ishigure 8 dan  0
 Koichi Kobayashi  1  
 Koichi Kobayashi 9 dan  1
   Cho Chikun Meijin  0  
 Cho Chikun Meijin  1
 -  0  
 Koichi Kobayashi 9 dan  1
   Masaki Takemiya 9 dan  0  
 Masaki Takemiya 9 dan  1
 -  0  
 Masaki Takemiya 9 dan  1
   Masao Kato Tengen  0  
 Masao Kato Tengen  1
 -  0  
 Koichi Kobayashi 9 dan  0
   Rin Kaiho 9 dan  2
 Sunao Hasegawa 7 dan  1
 -  0  
 Sunao Hasegawa 7 dan  0
   Rin Kaiho 9 dan  1  
 Yutaka Shiraishi 9 dan  0
 Rin Kaiho 9 dan  1  
 Rin Kaiho 9 dan  1
   Shuzo Awaji 8 dan  0  
 Shuzo Awaji 8 dan  1
 -  0  
 Shuzo Awaji 8 dan  1
   Hideo Otake 9 dan  0  
 Hideo Otake 9 dan  1
 -  0  

Challenger finals

Player
1
2
3
T
Koichi Kobayashi 9 dan 0
Rin Kaiho 9 dan W+R W+4.5 2

Finals

Player
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
T
Hideyuki Fujisawa (Kisei) W+R W+3.5 W+3.5 W+R 4
Rin Kaiho (Challenger) W+R W+7.5 W+R 3