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The Sumo Association displays the full thanks (満員御礼, manin onrei) banner from the ceiling of the Fukuoka Kokusai Center for the final day of the November basho in appreciation of support for sumo wrestling in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first time that the banner has been hung since the January 2020 tournament. [112]
Wrestlers can be listed in the order of their rank as of the most current January/Hatsu 2025 banzuke, by clicking the 'Current rank' sorting button.; The East side of the banzuke is regarded as more prestigious than the West side and those ranked on the East will generally have had a slightly better record in the previous tournament than those with the same rank on the West.
A pictorial banzuke from the April 1788 basho. A banzuke for onsen (諸国温泉効能鑑, Shokoku onsen kōnō-kan), issued February 1851 (Kaei 4). The rankings on the banzuke are decided by an assembly composed of 20 sumo judges and three supervisors who gather a few days after each official tournament. The assembly assigns ranks to over 600 ...
15 March 2021: 7 months and 24 days: Tokisakae: Maegashira 6 Fujiseiun: 21: 10 May 2021: 15 November 2021: 6 months and 5 days: Kamito: Juryo 6 10 Akiseyama: 20: 10 March 2008: 25 July 2008: 4 months and 15 days: Surugatsukasa: Maegashira 12 Tsurugishō: 20: 9 March 2014: 25 July 2014: 4 months and 16 days: Hienriki: Maegashira 6 Aonishiki: 20: ...
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]
Ikioi announced his retirement from sumo in June 2021, on the day of the release of the banzuke for the July 2021 tournament where he had fallen to sandanme 21. He became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association, having acquired the Kasugayama elder stock, and will work as a coach at Isenoumi stable. [13]
Kotozakura Masakatsu (琴櫻 将傑), born 19 November 1997 as Masakatsu Kamatani (鎌谷 将且, Kamatani Masakatsu), is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Chiba Prefecture. He wrestles for Sadogatake stable, a sumo stable previously run by his grandfather, former yokozuna Kotozakura, and currently run by his father, former sekiwake ...
He finished the November 2021 tournament with a 7–8 record. [12] In the January 2022 banzuke he was demoted from sekiwake back to komusubi. [13] In the New Year tournament he posted a 5–10 record. [14] This led to his demotion to the rank of maegashira 3 in the following rankings. At the March tournament he had a 1–14 record. [15]