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He mentioned consulting his lawyers about an appeal on Twitter yesterday, but it seems financially unlikely.

Tsubota cites the same "sand" rules I mentioned earlier. http://tsubotaa.la.coocan.jp/binran/binran_r.html If Tsubota says it, it must be true.

Moti, you may be right. It looks like the official sumo rules (相撲規則勝負規定) refer to a loss being determined by a rikishi making contact with the sand, rather than more broadly "the dohyou": 第6条 土俵内において足の裏以外の体の一部が早く砂についた者を負けとする。 第7条 土俵外の砂に体の一部でも早くついた者を負けとする。 Very very strange, and I've never heard of any part of this before. Would the shinpan seriously consider this distinction?

Using the query system with the "group by rikishi" and "show highest rank" filters seems to frequently, but not always, produce a lot of results for Highest Rank which read __0. In other cases, doing the same style of search, a number is produced but the number is wrong. Is this a known issue?

Would you count Azumafuji? I haven't had time to properly research this, but I think they were trying to balance the written banzuke here, as well as in the previous basho. If we rephrase your statement as "promoted from lower than the highest-ranked ozeki slot", I believe it's correct.

Looks like Tachiyama's oyakata was Kaizan I, and Shounosuke 16 was 61 years old when Tachiyama was promoted. Shounosuke appears to have joined sumo in 1864 and Unryuu retired in 1865, so that works out.

Tachiyama claimed he was taught by the 16th Kimura Shounosuke. I'm not sure how far back the tradition of one yokozuna teaching the next extends, but I would wager it started somewhere around the Hitachi-Ume era.

Yonezawaryu, J4w.

There is a photographed copy of the 1759 Natsu banzuke in Sakai's Nihon Sumoushi, but it is beyond me to read the script. He provides an incomplete transcription which ends at maegashira 4, and then writes on both sides "and 18 others". Is this of any use? (There may be other missing banzuke in there, but let's start with the one.)

We saw this happen on day 14, when Shoudai put his foot directly on the shikirisen and immediately fell over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL_cJBjHotY&t=739s I don't understand why it should be so controversial to suggest Kotozakura had only a small role in his own victory on day 15. It isn't inherently a criticism of his skill as a rikishi, in the same way that pointing out a rikishi has received a fusenshou is not inherently a criticism of their skill.

There's something odd with some of the very oldest banzukes in the database (accuracy aside). The plain banzuke view seems to have an error which causes no navigation arrow to be provided for years in which only one basho is listed. However, one of the two intended arrows does appear for Fuyu 1761 - and the issue does not affect 1946 at all, despite it also having only one basho.

It would appear that Inosuke was the one making it look like a jikanmae. Everyone else seems to have been on the same page - the time-keeper gestured, the towels were delivered, Abema put up their "match about to begin" banner, but Inosuke was in the wrong stance. Over on NHK, the announcers were confused, saying at first that Inosuke made the mistake, then wondering if it was a jikanmae, finally looking back over the footage and saying that they believe Inosuke immediately forgot that he saw the signal. The legend of a new Inosuke begins. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/bb3670ad87380a8fa051ec24b6b6c6b5a4d1b59b

It appears that two other rikishi using the same shikona of "Shiranui" have the same spelling issues from the quoted post, even with different given names. https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi.aspx?r=3529&l=j https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi.aspx?r=2944&l=j One is Mitsuemon and the other Kotsuemon when both, to my understanding, should be Koemon.

Hitachiyama For there is no other single figure in the sport's history with such an extreme impact on its popularity, culture, the recruitment of rikishi, the recreation of rikishi - and in a tragically short span of time. There is too much which must be said about Hitachiyama to allow extended elaboration here. Taihou Sumo's fulcrum in the second half of the 20th century and a keystone of Shouwa. His career is the origin point of shinpan video review and ichidai toshiyori, and a great many still consider him to be the strongest yokozuna. Hakuhou It is hard to imagine a future in which Hakuhou will not be the most significant rikishi of at least the first half of the 21st century. The precise effects of his legacy of record-smashing and arrogance are yet hazy, but it is safe to assume they will be substantial. Sakai Tadamasa Sakai's works remain to this day the most important sources of critical, accurate sumo history and lore to those without a lifetime to spend on trawling historical archives. His Nihon Sumoushi practically defined the boundaries of the field.