krindel

Out of all the impressive achievements of Onosato, this is not exactly the most oustanding one... It is rare (6 times in the modern era) but the only reason Onosato is clinching the award already is because his opponents have been disappointing and/or absent and/or too young to have 5 full basho in makuuchi (Aonishiki). So not really an achievement for him per se, rather an indictment on his opposition level... On 54 occasions have rikishi achieved 60 or more wins in the 5 first basho of the year in the modern era. Even more if you take "any 5 consecutive basho" and not just January - September. We have had 6 basho a year for 68 years now. In 44 of those years (65%) the top rikishi after Aki basho had 60 wins or more. In 10 years we even had two rikishi with over 60 wins at the same time. Asashoryu in 2005 and Hakuho in 2010 clinched the awards after Aki despite Tochiazuma and Baruto having 52 and 53 wins respectively. Rikishi Year Wins up to Aki Difference from next Kitanoumi 1974 61 17 Asashoryu 2005 70 18 Hakuho 2008 66 18 Hakuho 2010 72 19 Terunofuji 2021 62 18 Onosato 2025 60 16 So yeah, nice bit of trivia, but it is not the most impressive thing Onosato has done this year :D.

Indeed, a good opportunity to give verbal thanks. Your work is trully appreciated as always

Forget sanyaku then... He is oviously the new Hakuho.

Or (in the off chance someone is actually interested) we could look through his interviews a bit and discover he has his Latvian mother's last name while his father is Russian Estonian ;-).

Won't an eSIM of some sort work for the phone code? Those are generally not super difficult to get from abroad.

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 :-(

Welcome to the forum! (Welcome...)

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"?