3rd Kisei
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The 3rd Kisei was the 3rd edition of the Kisei tournament. Since Fujisawa Hideyuki won the previous year, he was given an automatic place in the final. Eight players battled in a knockout tournament to decide the final 2. Those two would then play each other in a best-of-3 match to decide who would face Fujisawa. Ishida Yoshio became the challenger after beating Sakata Eio 2 games to 1, but would lose 4 games to 1 against Fujisawa.{{cite web|url=http://gobase.org/games/jp/kisei/3/ |title=kisei title, 3rd edition, 1979 |access-date=June 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025052425/http://gobase.org/games/jp/kisei/3/ |archive-date=25 October 2011 |url-status=live }}
Main tournament
{{Round8
||Hideo Otake Meijin|0|Masao Kato Honinbo|1
||Eio Sakata 9 dan|1|Norio Kudo Oza|0
||Yoshio Ishida 9 dan|1|Tadahiko Chino 8 dan|0
||Rin Kaiho 9 dan|1|Toshihiro Shimamura Tengen|0
||Masao Kato Honinbo|0|Eio Sakata 9 dan|1
||Yoshio Ishida 9 dan|1|Rin Kaiho 9 dan|0
||Eio Sakata 9 dan|1|Yoshio Ishida 9 dan|2
}}
Challenger finals
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| Eio Sakata 9 dan | W+0.5 | 1 | ||
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| Yoshio Ishida 9 dan | W+R | W+6.5 | 2 |
Finals
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| align=center | W+3.5 | W+R | W+R | W+1.5 | 4 | |||
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| Yoshio Ishida (Challenger) | W+2.5 | 1 |