Most often held by members of the Honinbo school, it was also held by brilliant Yasuis and Inoues.
This tournament ran from 1955 to 1961 and was subsequently replaced by the Meijin and Judan titles.
This was the first of these modified ports (originally released in Japan as Takahashi-Meijin no Bōken Jima) for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Hudson Soft, a modified version of the first Wonder Boy in which the main character replaced with a caricature of real-life Japanese video game expert named Takahashi Meijin.