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The term honbasho means "main (or real) tournament" and is used to distinguish these tournaments from unofficial tournaments which are held as part of sumo tours, between the six major tournaments. Such display tournaments may have prize money attached but a wrestler's performance has no effect on his ranking.
Additionally, ¥5 million collected from spectators at the January tournament in Tokyo is also donated. [24] 4: The retirement ceremony for former ōzeki Tochinoshin is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. [25] 11: The 48th Japan Grand Sumo Tournament, a one-day competition for professional sumo wrestlers, is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan.
The Emperor's Cup has been awarded to the winner of top division tournaments since 1925. This is a list of wrestlers who have won the top division (makuuchi) championship in professional sumo since 1909, when the current championship system was established.
On the following day–the first day of the tournament–244 prize money envelopes are distributed, establishing a single-day record. [3] Among the sponsor banners paraded during the tournament are those promoting the future Major League Baseball Tokyo Series games, featuring photos of Shohei Ohtani and other Japanese baseball players. [4]
28: The Sumo Association releases the banzuke for the upcoming autumn Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. Three wrestlers are listed at the second-highest rank of ōzeki: Mongolian Hōshōryū will compete in his first tournament at the ōzeki rank, while Takakeishō and Kirishima both hope to secure a winning record and avoid relegation.
The sumo hall of Ryōgoku in Tokyo during the May 2006 tournament. Since 1958, six Grand Sumo tournaments or honbasho have been held each year: three at the Kokugikan in Tokyo (January, May, and September), and one each in Osaka (March), Nagoya (July), and Fukuoka (November).
14: The November Grand Sumo Tournament begins in Fukuoka. It is the first sumo tournament held in Kyushu in two years, after the November 2020 basho was moved to Tokyo due to the COVID pandemic. Capacity restrictions limit the Fukuoka Kokusai Center to approximately 3,700 daily spectators.
The Sumo World Championships is an amateur sumo competition organized by the ... was rescheduled to be held in Tokyo in late 2023. [2] Weight classes. 1992–2018 ...