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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.
This is the only division that is featured on standard NHK's live coverage of sumo tournaments and is broadcast bilingually. The lower divisions are covered only on streaming services like Abema . The name makuuchi literally means "inside the curtain", a reference to the early period of professional sumo, when the top ranked wrestlers were able ...
A sumo wrestler from Ukraine is one of three new promotions by the Sumo Association to the second-highest jūryō division for the November 2024 tournament. 20-year-old Aonishiki , a third-place finisher in the 2019 World Junior Sumo Championships, moved to Japan in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the six tournaments since ...
A dohyō (土俵, Japanese pronunciation:) is the space in which a sumo wrestling bout occurs. A typical dohyō is a circle made of partially buried rice- straw bales 4.55 meters in diameter. In official professional tournaments ( honbasho ), it is mounted on a square platform of clay 66 cm high and 6.7m wide on each side.
The Royal Albert Hall will be transformed into a "temple of sumo" as it is set to host the Grand Sumo Tournament for the second time. Next October, more than 40 of Japan's elite rikishi ...
In the Edo period, the locations of sumo tournaments and the rikishi (sumo wrestlers) who competed in them varied. Sumo was particularly popular in the cities of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka; with tournaments held twice a year in Edo, and once a year in both Kyoto and Osaka. The tournaments lasted 10 days each.
Sumo (Japanese: 相撲, Hepburn: sumō, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' striking one another ') [1] is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
As there are currently eight main sponsors of the Sumo Association, [21] each yobidashi has eight different kimono which he wears during all 15 days of each basho. [10] The costume is the same for senior and junior ranked yobidashi and only the kimono worn on the torso varies in color and the names on the back.