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Hi all, here at last are the kimarite statistics for this basho, in which Yokozuna Kakuryu produced some of his best sumo for a while to claim his 6th Makuuchi yusho. Elsewhere, Takasago-beya continued their 2019 yusho winning streak, this basho it was Terasawa who clinched the Sandanme yusho in a kettei-sen against veteran stablemate Asatenmai. And Aminishiki finally reached the end of the road, retiring after another knee injury rather than lose his long-held place in the sekitori ranks. Moving on to the techniques, former Maegashira Sagatsukasa had a good win on Day 9 to secure his kachi-koshi - for a moment it looks like he's setting up to launch Wakatakamoto with an ipponzeoi shoulder throw, but then he changes tactic and trips his opponent's leg for a nice chongake win. I thought there might have been an earlier chongake this basho in the bout between Matsuda and Hokutoo, but it seems the leg grab was more instrumental to the win than the trip, so it was recorded as the only watashikomi of the basho instead. Speaking of Matsuda, he was on the losing end of one of the two ushiromotare here. It's only the 7th basho with two or more of those since it was introduced in the 2001 kimarite expansion, and the first since 2016 Hatsu. Unfortunately I didn't find videos of those bouts. Two former judoka put their skills to use in Nagoya and got their first wins of the basho as a result. Hironaka threw Hokutosato with the first ipponzeoi of the year (no video of that one either I'm afraid). Two days later, Ryuga toppled Chida with a slightly slow-motion nichonage. Kaishu will be back in Sandanme again on the next banzuke after a kachi-koshi here which included wins by kekaeshi and uchimuso. It was the first win of his career with either of those moves. There were four amiuchi wins in this basho, only the second time we've seen that many in basho with complete information for all divisions, along with 2014 Nagoya. It was the third amiuchi win already of Toki's career, it'll be interesting to see how many more he can add in the future. There were also four susoharai here, the most in a basho since 2017 Kyushu which saw five. The most notable of them came from yusho winner Kakuryu - it was the second susoharai win of his career, the first one coming 15 years ago! Lastly, I wouldn't usually mention the technique in the notes but I did enjoy this quick bout - former Juryo Keitenkai tries a flying henka and ends up throwing Fukuyama with a fine kotenage. Kimarite from kettei-sen bouts are not included in the statistics (they're actually missing from the database for the moment, f.a.o @Doitsuyama). Kimarite Makuuchi Juryo Makushita Sandanme Jonidan Jonokuchi Total Percentage Abisetaoshi 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0.08% Amiuchi 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 0.16% Ashitori 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 0.12% Chongake 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.04% Fumidashi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Fusen (default) 4 1 1 3 7 0 16 0.64% Gasshohineri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Hansoku (foul) 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.04% Harimanage 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Hatakikomi 27 21 44 67 54 9 222 8.84% Hikiotoshi 16 5 11 31 25 6 94 3.74% Hikkake 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.04% Ipponzeoi 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.04% Isamiashi 0 0 1 0 3 0 4 0.16% Izori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Kainahineri 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0.08% Kakenage 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.04% Kakezori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Katasukashi 2 4 4 4 7 3 24 0.96% Kawazugake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Kekaeshi 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.04% Ketaguri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Kimedashi 0 1 3 1 5 0 10 0.40% Kimetaoshi 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.08% Kirikaeshi 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.08% Komatasukui 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Koshikudake 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.04% Koshinage 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Kotehineri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Kotenage 12 2 12 7 19 2 54 2.15% Kozumatori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Kubihineri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Kubinage 0 0 1 4 1 0 6 0.24% Makiotoshi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Mitokorozeme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Nichonage 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.04% Nimaigeri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Okuridashi 4 6 14 21 35 5 85 3.39% Okurigake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Okurihikiotoshi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Okurinage 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.08% Okuritaoshi 0 1 6 6 3 3 19 0.76% Okuritsuridashi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Okuritsuriotoshi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Omata 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Osakate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Oshidashi 64 47 109 163 179 57 619 24.65% Oshitaoshi 9 8 7 28 27 10 89 3.54% Sabaori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Sakatottari 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.04% Shitatedashinage 1 1 1 2 3 1 9 0.36% Shitatehineri 1 1 1 1 3 0 7 0.28% Shitatenage 2 5 9 15 16 4 51 2.03% Shumokuzori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Sokubiotoshi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Sotogake 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0.12% Sotokomata 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Sotomuso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Sototasukizori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Sukuinage 3 2 10 14 15 8 52 2.07% Susoharai 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 0.16% Susotori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Tasukizori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Tokkurinage 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Tottari 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0.12% Tsukaminage 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Tsukidashi 13 1 13 7 7 0 41 1.63% Tsukihiza 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 0.12% Tsukiotoshi 17 9 19 44 30 4 123 4.90% Tsukitaoshi 2 2 2 0 2 0 8 0.32% Tsukite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Tsumatori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Tsuridashi 0 1 0 0 3 0 4 0.16% Tsuriotoshi 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.04% Tsutaezori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Uchigake 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.12% Uchimuso 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.04% Ushiromotare 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.08% Utchari 0 0 3 3 2 3 11 0.44% Uwatedashinage 8 6 11 4 9 3 41 1.63% Uwatehineri 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.08% Uwatenage 9 11 15 23 43 5 106 4.22% Waridashi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Watashikomi 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.04% Yaguranage 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Yobimodoshi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% Yorikiri 79 62 97 159 179 58 634 25.25% Yoritaoshi 5 9 16 36 42 25 133 5.30% Zubuneri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00%

Hakkaku-beya held a short training camp on Okinoshima, Shimane prefecture following the Nagoya basho, and it was there that Okinoiwa's danpatsu-shiki was held. Rikishi from Isenoumi-beya joined them on the trip.

Phew... with the corrected results I hang on to my precious Kanto-sho by my fingernails as the last kachi-koshi player, and the only one not to pick yusho winner Kakuryu. Amusingly, in the Natsu basho I was in the opposite position of first make-koshi player.

And here is that full schedule of events, including an Aki jungyo Aki event on the 22nd. Oct 5th - Nanao, Ishikawa Oct 6th - Kanazawa, Ishikawa Oct 7th - Tonami, Toyama Oct 8th - Itoigawa, Niigata Oct 9th - Otawara, Tochigi Oct 10th - Chiba, Chiba Oct 11th - Sagamihara, Kanagawa Oct 12th - Kofu, Yamanashi Oct 13th - Izu, Shizuoka Oct 14th - Yaizu, Shizuoka Oct 16th - Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Oct 17th - Tokoname, Aichi Oct 18th - Kyoto, Kyoto Oct 19th - Kadoma, Osaka Oct 20th - Himeji, Hyogo Oct 22nd - Aki, Kochi Oct 23rd - Kurashiki, Okayama Oct 24th - Izumo, Shimane Oct 25th - Mihara, Hiroshima Oct 26th - Hiroshima, Hiroshima Oct 27th - Fukuyama, Hiroshima

Former Maegashira Shotenro has switched from the Kasugayama myoseki (owned by Ikioi) to the Kitajin myoseki (owned by Endo), it was announced earlier.

Four promotions for the next banzuke, two newcomers and two returnees. Debut: Asagyokusei (朝玉勢, formerly Tamaki) - Takasago-beya - last basho Mk3e, 4-3 Kaisho - Asakayama - Mk4w, 4-3 Return: Seiro - shikoroyama - Mk1e, 5-2 Irodori - Shikoroyama - Mk1w, 4-3 Tamaki's new shikona is nice, the middle kanji is from his family name while the third honours his hometown of Ise, Mie prefecture. Congratulations to Asakayama-beya and Kaisho, the first sekitori for former Ozeki Kaio! I'm surprised he was ahead of Wakamotoharu though.

The final records of Hitenryu and Tochikasuga are a bit mixed up - Hitenryu won their Senshuraku bout to finish 6-1, leaving Tochikasuga at 5-2.

After being dead last on Shonichi, what remained of my Hoshitori entry somehow mustered a comeback to clinch the first sansho of my career. Only took 111 basho!

Because of the arrows. The are never given to a MK rikishi I don't think that has anything to do with it, on the final day of 2018 Kyushu the third-to-last bout was a make-koshi affair between Kagayaki (5-10) and Ichinojo (6-9).

How come Komusubi Abi had the third-to-last bout on senshuraku, with Sekiwake Tamawashi fourth-from-last? Obviously I see that there was more on the line in the Abi-Kotoshogiku 7-7 bout, but I didn't think that could override the rank privilege.

Yesterday we saw a rare Day 13 kinboshi, but Kotoshogiku's win today is only the 6th kinboshi to be won on Day 14, and the first to happen away from the Kokugikan(s). Basho Winner Rank Yokozuna 1973 Aki Onishiki M11w Kotozakura 1974 Aki Ryuko M9w Kitanoumi 1975 Hatsu Mienoumi M6w Wajima 1984 Aki Konishiki M6w Chiyonofuji 2017 Hatsu Takanoiwa M10e Hakuho 2019 Nagoya Kotoshogiku M5e Hakuho Meanwhile, this is Kotoshogiku's third kinboshi since losing his Ozeki rank, drawing him level with Mitsuneyama for most kinboshi won by a former Ozeki. Overall it is the 17th such kinboshi. Basho Day Winner Rank Yokozuna 1933 Natsu 4 Noshirogata M1w Tamanishiki 1949 Natsu 6 Shionoumi M2w Azumafuji 1952 Aki 5 Nayoroiwa M3w Chiyonoyama 1957 Hatsu 7 Mitsuneyama M2e Kagamisato 1957 Natsu 2 Mitsuneyama M6e Kagamisato " " 7 Ouchiyama M1e Tochinishiki 1957 Aki 3 Mitsuneyama M2e Chiyonoyama 1976 Haru 12 Kaiketsu M1e Kitanoumi 2002 Kyushu 5 Takanonami M1e Musashimaru 2003 Hatsu 7 Dejima M3w Takanohana 2003 Nagoya 4 Takanonami M3e Musashimaru 2007 Hatsu 3 Dejima M1w Asashoryu 2007 Haru 2 Miyabiyama M3e Asashoryu 2008 Aki 3 Miyabiyama M1w Asashoryu 2017 Aki 3 Kotoshogiku M1w Harumafuji 2018 Hatsu 4 Kotoshogiku M2w Kisenosato 2019 Nagoya 14 Kotoshogiku M5e Hakuho

I'm happy enough with Tomokaze winning the 13th Day 13 kinboshi (although the first one was on the senshuraku of that 13-day basho). In addition, it's the 15th kinboshi won by a rikishi ranked at Maegashira 7, in the second basho of the Reiwa era. The last such kinboshi was won by Itai just over three decades ago in the second basho of the Heisei era, also on Day 13.

A couple of 40+ bouts this basho. Day 4 saw the 10th overall meeting between Yoshiazuma and Kaonishiki, but for both their first involvement in a 40+ bout. 31 Yoshiazuma (Sd37e) 1-0 Kaonishiki (Sd38w) 1-0 Meanwhile, Day 13 will see Hanakaze and Daigonishiki meet for the second time after a decade apart, for a combined age of 90 years, 10 months and some days - around two months older than the previous record set by Hanakaze and Isenohana in 2018 Hatsu. 16 Daigonishiki (Jd74e) 1-5 Hanakaze (Jd61w) 1-5

Last round of lower division action, three withdrawals and four returnees (or late entries) ahead of Day 13: Withdrawing: Jd4w Nakai - fusenpai on Day 11 Jd87e Kiyota - fusenpai on Day 12 Jd102e Oatari Returning/Entering: Sd6e Dewanojo, withdrew on Day 9. Sd100e Yuriki, withdrew on Day 5 - fights 0-6 Shinyashiki on Day 13. Jd97w Mimori, late entry - fights 0-6 Aki on Day 13. Jk26e Murata, late entry - fights 0-6 Hattorizakura in the opening bout of Day 13.

As I understand it, Banjaku hurt his knee during a long bout against Tamanishiki, and was unable to resume after it was halted for a mizu-iri. The next day's torikumi having already been set, he wasn't able to participate and got the second fusenpai. After a day off he rejoined the basho, but evidently his knee was in bad shape and he lost his last four bouts. It was his only basho in a sanyaku rank. In the very next basho, Banjaku fought another long bout against Ozeki Kagamiiwa. The bout was halted for a mizu-iri and, still with no result, again for a ni-ban-go torinaoshi. The ageing Kagamiiwa was exhausted and couldn't participate (he would retire after the following basho), but in an admirable display of sportsmanship, Banjaku declined to accept his forfeiture and so the bout was recorded as a double fusenpai.