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The '''1st [[Kisei (go)|Kisei]]''' was the birth of a new [[List of professional Go tournaments|Go tournament]]. Since this was the first year of the tournament, there was no set challenger or holder. From the 2nd edition on, there has been a playoff between challengers. At the time, it was the highest paying tournament there had ever been, and would be until the creation of the [[Ing Cup]]. [[Fujisawa Hideyuki]]'s win would mark the beginning of a six-year defense of the Kisei title from 1977 to 1982.<ref name=gogameworld>{{cite web|url=http://gogameworld.com/gophp/pg_titlelist_detail.php?title=Kisei |title=Go Tournament: Kisei |publisher=gogameworld.com |accessdate=29 June 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524114327/http://www.gogameworld.com/gophp/pg_titlelist_detail.php?title=Kisei |archivedate=24 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=gobase>{{cite web | url=http://gobase.org/games/jp/kisei/ | title=Kisei Tournament | publisher=gobase.org | accessdate=29 June 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110629092105/http://gobase.org/games/jp/kisei/| archivedate= 29 June 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>

== Tournament ==
[[Cho Chikun]] was eliminated in the preliminary stages by [[Yutaka Shiraishi]]. Eleven players competed in the main tournament: [[Yoshio Ishida]], [[Masaki Takemiya]] [[Honinbo tournament|Honinbo]], [[Utaro Hashimoto]], [[Eio Sakata]] and [[Hideo Otake]] [[Meijin]] were seeded into the quarter-finals. [[Masao Kato]] [[Judan (Go)|Judan]], [[Hideyuki Fujisawa]] [[Tengen (Go)|Tengen]], [[Shuzo Ohira]], [[Koichi Kobayashi]], [[Rin Kaiho]] and Yutaka Shiraishi were matched up in the first round.<ref name=gobase />

Hideyuki and Utaro reached the best of seven finals. Hideyuki took the first game, but lost the second. He then won three in a row and won his first of six straight titles.<ref name=gobase />

{{Round16
<!--Date-Place|Team 1|Score 1|Team 2|Score 2 -->
<!--round 16  -->
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||[[Masao Kato]]|0|'''[[Hideyuki Fujisawa]]'''|1
||'''[[Shuzo Ohira]]'''|1|[[Koichi Kobayashi]]|0
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||'''[[Rin Kaiho]]'''|1|[[Yutaka Shiraishi]]|0
<!--quarter finals  -->
||Yoshio Ishida|0|'''Hideyuki Fujisawa'''|1
||Ohira Shuzo|0|'''Masaki Takemiya'''|1
||'''Utaro Hashimoto'''|1|Sakata Eio|0
||'''Hideo Otake'''|1|Rin Kaiho|0
<!--semi finals -->
||'''Hideyuki Fujisawa'''|1|Masaki Takemiya|0
||'''Utaro Hashimoto'''|1|Hideo Otake|0
<!--final  -->
||'''Hideyuki Fujisawa'''|4|Utaro Hashimoto|1
|3rdplace=no}}

== Finals ==
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!width=125|{{center| Player}}
!width=70|{{center| 1}}
!width=70|{{center| 2}}
!width=70|{{center| 3}}
!width=70|{{center| 4}}
!width=70|{{center| 5}}
!width=70|{{center| 6}}
!width=70|{{center| 7}}
!width=70|{{center| T}}
|- align=center
| '''[[Hideyuki Fujisawa]]''' || W+R ||  || W+1.5 || W+5.5 || W+R ||  ||  ||'''4'''
|- align=center
| [[Utaro Hashimoto]]  ||  || W+R ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||'''1'''
|}

== References ==
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