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This is a list of all sumo wrestlers who have reached the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. It was not recorded on the banzuke until 1890 and was not officially recognised as sumo's highest rank until 1909. Until then, yokozuna was merely a licence given to certain ōzeki to perform the dohyō-iri ceremony.
The list includes yokozuna and ōzeki (the highest rank before the yokozuna rank was introduced), but excludes so-called kanban or "guest ōzeki" (usually big men drawn from local crowds to promote a tournament who would never appear on the banzuke again) and wrestlers for which insufficient data is available.
2017 in sumo - Kisenosato is promoted to yokozuna. Harumafuji retires following assault allegations against him. 2016 in sumo - Kotoshogiku and Goeido win the first titles by Japanese-born wrestlers in ten years. 58th yokozuna Chiyonofuji dies. 2015 in sumo - Hakuhō wins a record-breaking 33rd title. JSA chairman Kitanoumi dies and is replaced ...
List of sumo record holders; List of yokozuna This page was last edited on 18 April 2022, at 04:09 (UTC). Text is available ...
Futabayama Sadaji (双葉山 定次, February 9, 1912 – December 16, 1968) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Oita Prefecture.Entering sumo in 1927, he was the sport's 35th yokozuna from 1937 until his retirement in 1945.
The first table below lists the champions since the six-tournament system was instituted in 1958. [1] 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.
He secured promotion to yokozuna just three tournaments after that. At 21 years 2 months, he was the youngest ever yokozuna, [2] beating the previous record held by Taihō by one month. Kitanoumi was the most successful wrestler in sumo for the rest of the 1970s.
Tanikaze Kajinosuke (Japanese: 谷風梶之助, September 8, 1750 – February 27, 1795) was a Japanese sumo wrestler from the Edo period.Officially recognized as the fourth yokozuna, he was however effectively the first, as he was the first (along with Onogawa) to be awarded the title during his lifetime.