31st Kisei

The 31st Kisei is being held from May 2006 to March 22, 2007. The following players earned spots through not being eliminated in the group stage: Satoshi Yuki (5-0), Tomoyasu Mimura (3-2), Kato Atsushi (3-2), Kobayashi Satoru (3-2), Komatsu Hideki (3-2), Norimoto Yoda (2-3), and O Rissei (2-3). Cho U, Kunihisa Honda, O Meien, and Toshiya Imamura were eliminated from group play and had to earn a spot through preliminary stages. The players to have qualified through preliminary tournaments are Cho U, Kunihisa Honda, Cho Chikun, and Toshiya Imamura. Naoki Hane, the loser of the 30th Kisei takes the place of holder Keigo Yamashita in the group stage. Players who end with the two lowest records in the each league are eliminated from automatic berth into the next tournament while the 3 other players who were not eliminated or had the top record are given a place in the following years groups.

Keigo Yamashita swept his opponent for the second time in as many years.

Preliminaries

Group A

Round8
|Tetsuya Kiyonari "9 dan"|0|Yuta Iyama "7 dan"|1
|Kimio Yamada "9 dan"|1|Susumu Fukui "9 dan"|0
|Tetsuya Mitani "3 dan"|0|Yoshio Ueki "8 dan"|1
|Hikosaka Naoto "9 dan"|0|Cho U "Meijin"|1
|Yuta Iyama "7 dan"|1|Kimio Yamada "9 dan"|0
|Yoshio Ueki "8 dan"|0|Cho U "Meijin"|1
|Yuta Iyama "7 dan"|0|Cho U "Meijin"|1

Group B

Round8
|Hideki Matsuoka "8 dan"|0|Hideyuki Sakai "7 dan"|1
|Takuji Yamada "7 dan"|0|Masaharu Sato "9 dan"|1
|Katsunori Yanaka "8 dan"|0|Yasumasa Hane "9 dan"|1
|Shuzo Awaji "9 dan"|0|Kunihisa Honda "9 dan"|1
|Hideyuki Sakai "7 dan"|0|Masaharu Sato "9 dan"|1
|Yasumasa Hane "9 dan"|0|Kunihisa Honda "9 dan"|1
|Masaharu Sato "9 dan"|0|Kunihisa Honda "9 dan"|1

Group C

Round8
|Michihiro Morita "9 dan"|1|Shinichi Aoki "9 dan"|0
|Taiki Seto "6 dan"|0|Norio Kudo "9 dan"|1
|Masaki Hoshino "8 dan"|1|Masaki Takemiya "9 dan"|0
|Cho Chikun "Judan"|1|O Meien "9 dan"|0
|Michihiro Morita "9 dan"|1|Norio Kudo "9 dan"|0
|Masaki Hoshino "8 dan"|0|Cho Chikun "Judan"|1
|Michihiro Morita "9 dan"|0|Cho Chikun "Judan"|1

Group D

Round8
|Hiroshi Yamashiro "9 dan"|0|Yoshiaki Imamura "8 dan"|1
|Ei Kandei "9 dan"|0|Hideki Takano "6 dan"|1
|Kim Shushun "7 dan"|0|Tomochika Mizokami
"8 dan"|1
|Hiroyuki Hiroe "9 dan"|0|Toshiya Imamura "9 dan"|1
|Yoshiaki Imamura "8 dan"|1|Hideki Takano "6 dan"|0
|Tomochika Mizokami "8 dan"|0|Toshiya Imamura "9 dan"|1
|Yoshiaki Imamura "8 dan"|0|Toshiya Imamura "9 dan"|1

Main tournament

Group A

Finals

Key
*W+ - Won by
*R - Resignation

Kisei
preceded=30th Kisei
succeeded=32nd Kisei