70th Kisei Tournament, 1st Preliminary (1998)

Section 1	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
6-dan Keiichi Sanada		Tachi
6-dan Masamitsu Tachi	Tachi		Tachi
8-dan Shoji Kemmochi
6-dan Yaichio Ono	Ono
4-dan Yusuke Ina		Ono		Suzuki
7-dan Noburu Sakurai
4-dan Kiyokazu Katsumata		Iino
5-dan Yoichi Kushida	Iino		Suzuki
6-dan Kenji Iino
6-dan Ichiro Tanabe	Matsuura
6-dan Ryuichi Matsuura		Suzuki
5-dan Daisuke Suzuki

Section 2	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
5-dan Hisashi Ogura		Ogura
5-dan Shoichi Anzai	Seki		Ogura
5-dan Hiroshi Seki
5-dan Hiroki Iizuka	Iizuka
Joryu Osho Haruko Saita		Iizuka		Ogura
7-dan Seiichiro Taki
5-dan Shohei Takada		Takada
4-dan Yoshiyuki Matsumoto			Takada
7-dan Yoshinori Sato	Sato
6-dan Katsumi Mushano		Shoshi
6-dan Kazuharu Shoshi

Section 3	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
5-dan Isao Nakata		Nakata
6-dan Hiroto Kiritani	Kiritani		Nakata
6-dan Toshihiko Kawaguchi
4-dan Yoshiyuki Kubota		Toyokawa		Nakata
5-dan Takahiro Toyokawa
6-dan Yoshiyuki Ueyama		Kondo
4-dan Masakazu Kondo	Kondo		Sato
5-dan Kinji Shiihashi
8-dan Yoshimasa Saeki	Sato
4-dan Shin'ya Sato		Sato
5-dan Akio Ishikawa

Section 4	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
6-dan Hiroshi Kobayashi		Kobayashi
5-dan Jun'ichi Kase	Kase		Kobayashi
8-dan Yukio Miyasaka
4-dan Tadao Kitajima	Takano
4-dan Hideyuki Takano		Okazaki		Kobayashi
5-dan Hiroshi Okazaki
7-dan Hatasu Ito		Miyata
7-dan Toshio Miyata	Miyata		Miyata
7-dan Terutaka Yasue
5-dan Hiroharu Seto	Kinoshita
5-dan Koichi Kinoshita		Nakata
7-dan Hiroki Nakata

Section 5	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
6-dan Ichiro Hiura		Takeichi
6-dan Saburo Takeichi	Takeichi		Namekata
6-dan Tsuneo Kikuchi
6-dan Shuichi Ikeda	Numa
6-dan Haruo Numa		Namekata		Namekata
5-dan Hisahi Namekata
4-dan Kazushiza Horiguchi		Kawakami
4-dan Takeshi Kawakami	Kawakami		Kubo
7-dan Chimine Yamaguchi
7-dan Hideo Yamauguchi	Chuza
4-dan Makoto Chuza		Kubo
5-dan Toshiaki Kubo

Section 6	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
6-dan Koji Horiguchi		Horiguchi
Joryu Meijin Ichiyo Shimizu	Shimizu		Ito
5-dan Yuji Yoda
7-dan Toratsugu Nomoto	Ito
4-dan No Ito		Ito		Ito
7-dan Teruhiko Suzuki
5-dan Shuji Sato		Sato
4-dan Kosuke Tamura			Sato
6-dan Eiji Oshima	Nozuki
4-dan Hirotaka Nozuki		Nozuki
6-dan Katsuhiko Murooka

Section 7	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
4-dan Norihiro Yagura		Yagura
5-dan Hirobumi Ito	Ito		Yagura
5-dan Kiyoshi Aoki
6-dan Shodo Nakada	Nakada
5-dan Keizo Noda		Fujiwara		Yamasaki
5-dan Naoya Fujiwara
4-dan Hiroshi Kobayashi		Yamasaki
4-dan Takayuki Yamasaki	Yamasaki		Yamasaki
6-dan Hiromitsu Kanki
6-dan Masakazu Wakamatsu	Mori
6-dan Nobuo Mori		Kanzaki
6-dan Kenji Kanzaki

Section 8	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
7-dan Yuji Maeda		Masuda
4-dan Yuji Masuda	Masuda		Naganuma
5-dan Hiroshi Homma
6-dan Masayuki Moriyasu	Naganuma
6-dan Hiroshi Naganuma		Naganuma		Hatakeyama
5-dan Masataka Sugimoto
5-dan Shingo Hirafuji		Hirafuji
6-dan Junkichi Sakai	Sakai		Hatakeyama
7-dan Toshiyuki Tsubouchi
6-dan Noboru Kosaka	Kosaka
6-dan Akira Kinoshita		Hatakeyama
5-dan Mamoru Hatakeyama