The 12th Kisei was the 12th edition of the Kisei tournament for the game of Go. Since Koichi Kobayashi won the previous year, he was given an automatic place in the final. Eleven players battled in a knockout tournament to decide the final two. Those two would then play each other in a best-of-3 match to decide who would face Kobayashi. Masao Kato became the challenger after beating Hideo Otake 2 games to 0, but would lose to Kobayashi 4 games to 1 in the final.

Tournament

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Round of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
              
 
 
 
 
Shuzo Awaji1
 
 
 
Sunao Hasegawa0
 
Otake Hideo1
 
 
 
Awaji Shuzo0
 
O Meien1
 
 
 
O Rissei0
 
Hideo Otake1
 
 
 
Cho Chikun0
 
Eio Sakata0
 
 
 
Yutaka Shiraishi1
 
Masaki Takemiya1
 
 
 
Yutaka Shiraishi0
 
Hideo Otake0
 
 
 
-0
 
Hideo Otake0
 
 
 
Masao Kato2
 
Masaki Takemiya0
 
 
 
-0
 
O Meien0
 
 
 
Cho Chikun1
 
Cho Chikun0
 
 
 
-0
 
Masaki Takemiya0
 
 
 
Masao Kato1
 
Masao Kato0
 
 
 
-0
 
Masao Kato1
 
 
 
Norimoto Yoda0
 
Norimoto Yoda0
 
 
-0
 

Challenger finals

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Player
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2
3
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Hideo Otake 9 dan 0
Masao Kato Oza W+R W+R 2

Finals

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Player
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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Koichi Kobayashi (Kisei) W+R W+7.5 W+R W+0.5 4
Masao Kato (Challenger) W+8.5 1