32nd Kisei

The 32nd Kisei is being held from January 2007 to 2008. The following players earned spots through not being eliminated in the group stage: Naoki Hane (4-1), Cho U (4-1), Satoru Kobayashi (4-1), Atsushi Kato (4-1), O Rissei (3-2) Hideki Komatsu (2-3), Norimoto Yoda (2-3), and Imamura Toshiya (2-3). Mimura Tomoyasu, Kunihisa Honda, Satoshi Yuki, and Cho Chikun were eliminated from group play and had to earn a spot through preliminary stages. The players who qualify through preliminary tournaments are Cho Chikun, Hiroshi Yamashiro, Shinji Takao, and Yuta Iyama. 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.

Preliminaries

Group A

Round8
February 1|Yoshiaki Imamura "9 dan"|1|Hideki Enda "9 dan"|0
February 1|Masaharu Sato "9 dan"|0|Daisuke Murakawa "3 dan"|1
February 1|Yasuo Katayama "8 dan"|0|Mitsuki Kono "7 dan"|1
January 25|Kunio Ishii "9 dan"|0|Cho Chikun "Judan"|1
March 1|Yoshiaki Imamura "9 dan"|1|Daisuke Murakawa "3 dan"|0
February 22|Mitsuki Kono "7 dan"|0|Cho Chikun "Judan"|1
March 22|Yoshiaki Imamura "9 dan"|0|Cho Chikun "Judan"|1

Group B

Round8
February 22|Cho Riyu "7 dan"|0|Kimio Yamada "9 dan"|1
February 8|Hironari Nakano "9 dan"|0|Naoto Hikosaka "9 dan"|1
February 8|Kim Shushun "7 dan"|0|Rin Kono "Tengen"|1
February 1|Hiroshi Yamashiro "9 dan"|1|Kunihisa Honda "9 dan"|0
March 22|Kimio Yamada "9 dan"|1|Naoto Hikosaka "9 dan"|0
March 8|Rin Kono "Tengen"|0|Hiroshi Yamashiro "9 dan"|1
April 19|Kimio Yamada "9 dan"|0|Hiroshi Yamashiro "9 dan"|1

Group C

Round8
February 8|Ryu Shikun "9 dan"|0|Yujiro Hashimoto "9 dan"|1
February 22|Shuzo Awaji "9 dan"|0|Shinji Takao "Meijin"|1
February 1|Otake Hideo "Honorary Gosei"|0|Norio Kudo "9 dan"|1
February 22|So Yokoku "8 dan"|1|Tomoyasu Mimura "9 dan"|0
March 15|Yujiro Hashimoto "9 dan"|0|Shinji Takao "Meijin"|1
March 22|Norio Kudo "9 dan"|0|So Yokoku "8 dan"|1
May 3|Shinji Takao "Meijin"|1|So Yokoku "8 dan"|0

Group D

Round8
January 25|Satoshi Kataoka "9 dan"|0|Masaki Takemiya "9 dan"|1
February 22|Shinya Nakamura "8 dan"|1|Tetsuya Kiyonari "9 dan"|0
February 1|Rin Kaiho "Honorary Tengen"|0|Yuta Iyama "7 dan"|1
February 22|Shungo Goto "9 dan"|1|Satoshi Yuki "9 dan"|0
March 15|Masaki Takemiya "9 dan"|0|Shinya Nakamura "8 dan"|1
March 8|Yuta Iyama "7 dan"|1|Shungo Goto "9 dan"|0
April 5|Shinya Nakamura "8 dan"|0|Yuta Iyama "7 dan"|1

Main tournament

Group A

Finals

Key
*W+ - Won by
*R - Resignation

Kisei
preceded=31st Kisei
succeeded=33rd Kisei