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The last day of the tournament is called senshūraku, ... Sumo fight at the Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, September 2014 ... List of sumo video games; List of years in ...
2011 in sumo - A match-fixing scandal leads to the cancellation of the March basho with many resignations and expulsions. Hakuhō wins a record-tying 6th consecutive title. 2010 in sumo - Asashōryū retires after an alleged nightclub brawl after winning his 25th and final title.
2 years, 11 months and 27 days: Akinoumi: 2 Tanikaze: 63: 1 October 1778: 6 February 1782: 3 years, 4 months and 5 days: Onogawa: Hakuhō: 63: 23 January 2010: 15 November 2010: 9 months and 19 days: Kisenosato: 4 Umegatani I: 58: 1 April 1876: 8 January 1881: 4 years, 9 months and 7 days: Wakashima: 5 Tachiyama: 56: 9 January 1912: 7 May 1916: ...
It marks only the second time an elite five-day tournament will be held outside Japan. Sumo wrestlers bring 1,500 years of tradition to London as the sport has an international moment Skip to main ...
The number of honbasho held every year and their length has varied; since 1958 there are six tournaments held over 15 consecutive days in four locations every year. Since 1926 the honbasho are organized by the Japan Sumo Association , after the merger of the Tokyo and Osaka sumo associations.
The championship is determined by the wrestler with the highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day tournament. In the event of a tie a play-off is held between the wrestlers concerned. [2] Names in bold mark an undefeated victory (a zenshō-yūshō).
long serving bow-twirler at end of every tournament day: Ōtsukasa: 1993-3 2009-3 Maegashira 4 Irumagawa: promoted to the top division on 11 different occasions: Ryūhō: 1993-3 2012-5 Maegashira 16 Michinoku: spent 9 years in unsalaried ranks, sat out last year in sumo before finally retiring: Wakatoba: 1993-3 2007-9 Maegashira 11 Oguruma
While on a sumo tour to the Soviet Union in 1965 he tried to locate his father, but without success. [2] Taihō was the first of three great yokozuna who all hailed from Hokkaidō , the most northerly of the main islands of Japan and who among them dominated sumo during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.