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Definitely! think a duo of Takayasu / Tamawashi would be a candidate for oldest pair of Yokozuna attendants outside of kanreki dohyo-iri...

The tawara argument is fascinating, but if it counts as "not out" when you put your hand on the tawara, i'd expect practically everyone who is falling on their face to aim for it to hold themselves up. Don't remember ever seeing anyone trying to actively reach for the tawara...

Lets give it a go... I am ignoring both fusen wins and fusen losses and count only Yokozuna vs Maegashira bouts where there was a winner (no draws) and a valid kimarite was used (no hansoku). Edit: Data is not including todays bouts. Hoshoryu was in the lead, but ofc the sample size is so small that his win today is already lifting him above Kisenosato.

That was a very time specific trivia point. Hakuho had 15 total Makuuchi losses against Kotooshu, Baruto and Kokkai before that, but they were all retired at that point. He also lost a bout to Tochinoshin after that posting.

From what I can tell the top 10 is: Tamaryu (1986.11) - 101 Oshio (1978.05) - 98 Takanonami (2002.11) - 94 Chiyoshoma (2025.03) - 93 Kotoshogiku (2017.09) - 93 Hananokuni (1989.09) - 87 Kaiki (1979.11) - 85 Kurosegawa (1980.03) - 85 Daitetsu (1985.07) - 84 Minatofuji (1998.01) - 83 And for what its worth, the "bottom 10" (as in least tournaments to kinboshi) Ichinojo (2014.09) - 5 Sakuranishiki (1940.05) - 5 Musoyama (1994.01) - 6 Endo (2014.05) - 7 Yutakayama (1962.07) - 8 Dejima (1997.09) - 9 Futamiyama (1941.05) - 9 Kotomitsuki (2000.11) - 10 Terukuni (1940.01) - 10 Tosanoumi (1995.11) - 10 Toyoshima (1942.01) - 10 Obviously in the latter list the pre-1949 results are not really comparable...

YouTube tries to pick closeups of faces for the thumbnails, and I guess invariably winning poses is more or less where direct shots of faces are in sumo coverage. As a workaround, if you make a short part at the start of the video in a way that features a face, there should be a high chance it gets chosen as a potential thumbnail.

All the best to him in his fight, and hope he manages to have a long and successful oyakata career.

Not unexpected, yet a terribly sad day for sumo :-(

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I will admit to having zero knowledge of japanese... But how can you possibly expect support when you start the title of your thread "In defense of Kintamayama"?

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I have a great respect for people who have given so much of themselves to sumo without the perks of ever being a sekitori or an oyakata. Many of those are really what the cliché calls "unsung heroes", and I am really sad to hear that one of them has passed before his time. May he rest in peace. (Bow...)