It's interesting that the first version of the game gives the event as "4th Old Meijin Final". This is my personal usage, and as it's not a translation it's hardly likely that someone else would come up with the same wording independently. Yet the moves are different....
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Japanese tournament records are well organized and widely available. So I did not expect to find many errors.
I'm intrigued why you think this. Many games of the early Honinbo are actually still missing. As to being well organised, even Kido did not publish Games 2, 5 and 6 of one term's title match, but did publish 1, 3 and 4. But in non-titlematch games, players have long been responsible for providing the game record. The norm was for the winner to write the game down from memory afterwards, but (a) this produced errors and (b) quite a few players were notorious for not putting the records in their dockets for the admin people. A young lady there was quite diligent in chasing laggards up, but had no punishments to enforce the rule.
For quite a few of the Old Meijin and other early league games, GoGoD had to get the game records direct from the players themselves (it'll be interesting to see where else these turn up
), but there were cases where we failed - players had died, etc. Typically the missing games were by players from the Kansai or Nagoya branches of the Nihon Ki-in, and so not played in Tokyo. This is the likeliest explanation of the reason why game records were not deposited in the Tokyo pigeon-holes.Another major problem of this era was that Kido did not publish dates with the game records. In many cases I was able to find the dates from other sources but for even more I had to just resort to marking the date as "Publication" date. People who have omitted this word to disguise their copying have of course spread wrong dates around the internet.
One practice of some early compilers of databases (but not GoGoD) was to switch round a couple of trivial endgame moves, to act as a marker. These games still surface and have to be counted as errors. (I know many of them because we early compilers used to correspond quite often and we traded "secrets".)
So, beyond Kido (and Kido only when it could be bothered) , where else are tournament game records of this era "well organised and widely available"? The only other major sources I can think of, which are far from complete, are hard-to-get newspapers and very expensive game collections of individuals.
My own experience is simply that the Japanese records have a much higher standard than Chinese and (worst of all by far, Korean when it comes to avoiding typos. They have also been at the business of publishing longer than the Chinese and Koreans. But I have had clumps of hair to prove they were not well organised or widely available.
