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The Sumo Association have overseen all promotions since Chiyonoyama's in 1951. Two consecutive tournament championships or an "equivalent performance" at ōzeki level are the minimum requirement for promotion to yokozuna in modern sumo. The longest serving yokozuna ever was Hakuhō, who was promoted in 2007 and retired in 2021. [1]
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Wrestlers who went on to be promoted to yokozuna are tabulated in the list of yokozuna. [2] Active wrestlers (September 2024) are indicated by italics. The number of top division yūshō (championships) won by each ōzeki is also listed. There is no requirement to win a championship before promotion, but a wrestler must usually have won around ...
List of sumo record holders; List of yokozuna This page was last edited on 18 April 2022, at 04:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The House of Yoshida Tsukasa (吉田司家), also commonly called Yoshida family, is a Japanese aristocratic family who was once responsible for the organization of professional sumo in feudal Japan, controlling rikishi (professional wrestlers) and gyōji (sumo referees) throughout the country, making sure that sumo etiquette was strictly observed, and granting the rank of yokozuna and tate ...
received yokozuna licenses from Gojo family and Yoshida family: Tsurugizan Taniemon: 1827-3 1852-2 Ōzeki Onomatsu: offered a yokozuna license but rejected it: Hidenoyama Raigorō: 1828-3 1850-3 Yokozuna Hidenoyama: shortest yokozuna ever, wrestlers outside his stable once staged a strike against his authority: Shiranui Dakuemon: 1830-11 1844-1 ...
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. The others were Kitanoumi and Chiyonofuji .
All of the three yokozuna of the time (Azumafuji, Terukuni and Haguroyama) were absent for most of the January tournament, driving intense criticism. [4] The Sumo Association even began to think about a demotion system applied to yokozuna but the idea was later dropped under pressure from sumo purists and traditionalists. [5]