Day 15 results, yusho and sansho

[Doitsuyama 1,173]

Harumafuji defeated Hakuho for the third senshuraku in a row in a rather awesome bout, carrying his win streak to 31 with his second consecutive zensho yusho and leaving no doubts about his yokozuna promotion, the first since Natsu 2012 and the third Mongolian yokozuna in a row.

Kakuryu salvaged a positive 3-2 in the final third of the basho with a rather easy oshidashi win over Kisenosato who again is not looking good at the end of the basho, finishing 1-4. Okinoumi beat Tochiozan and is the only one to join Kakuryu at 11-4 as Myogiryu, Kyokutenho and Takayasu all lost, the latter two sqandering their chance for a kanto-sho with a final day win. Kyokutenho found himself in Tokyo against sekiwake Goeido on senshuraku in a fine basho, fighting for a prize... a deja-vu all over, but today he lost. Tochiozan got the shukun-sho for the kinboshi win over Hakuho while Myogiryu got his fourth gino-sho in six makuuchi basho.

Goeido saved his sekiwake rank with the last-day kachi-koshi, but the two komusubi fill go down. M1 Kaisei missed the chance at kachi-koshi, losing in a komusubi playoff against Homasho, and the Brazilian will be even behind Shohozan on the next banzuke as the East M1 from Matsugane-beya won his fifth consecutive bout to finish 7-8 as well. Aminishiki will be the East komusubi next basho, earning his place with the win over Myogiryu.

Takarafuji went down against an aggressive Chiyonokuni who really wanted to secure his makuuchi promotion. Kimurayama lost to Chiyotairyu and is also juryo-bound, but Tenkaiho may have saved himself with a nice yorikiri win over Yoshikaze. Fujiazuma also removed himself from demotion discussions, clinching the kachi-koshi against Wakanosato. This leaves us one demotion short for the five qualified juryo rikishi and I suspect Tenkaiho will go down, but maybe the banzuke makers do what is best for Tamawashi and leave him in juryo.

Ikioi and Jokoryu both won to set up a 11-4 kettei-sen which was won by Jokoryu. Jokoru now was in a kettei-sen in all five divsions below makuuchi and won all except in jonidan exactly one year ago against Watanabe (who incidentally had a 4-3 at Ms13e following his sandanme yusho last basho). That single loss prevents him from a chance to catch up with Tochiazuma, the only rikishi yet to win a yusho in all six divisions.

Tanzo finally won to get the kachi-koshi in the end as all bouts were seriously fought, leaving four of the eight 7-7 rikishi in the make-koshi dust, among them Takamisakari.

Day 15

Juryo

Ms5w Akiseyama (6-1) yorikiri J14e Arawashi (5-10)

J14w Oniarashi (3-12) tsukidashi J13w Kimikaze (3-12)

J12w Tokushinho (7-8) yoritaoshi Ms4e Tochiyashiki (3-4)

J9e Hochiyama (8-7) uwatenage J7w Nionoumi (6-9)

J6e Oiwato (6-9) tsukidashi J7e Sagatsukasa (7-8)

J8w Kitaharima (7-8) oshidashi J5e Chiyootori (7-8)

J4w Tokushoryu (8-7) yorikiri J6w Kotoyuki (9-6)

J4e Tamaasuka (8-7) yorikiri J8e Takamisakari (7-8)

J2w Tochinowaka (5-10) yoritaoshi J10e Takanoiwa (7-8)

J11w Tanzo (8-7) sukuinage J2e Tamawashi (9-6)

J9w Daikiho (9-6) oshidashi J1w Yoshiazuma (9-6)

J1e Ikioi (11-4) sukuinage J10w Kotoyutaka (9-6)

Makuuchi

J3w Jokoryu (11-4) oshidashi M16e Takanoyama (6-9)

M15w Sadanofuji (5-10) oshidashi J5w Sotairyu (6-9)

M13e Asasekiryu (8-7) yorikiri M14e Asahisho (8-7)

J3e Chiyonokuni (10-5) tsukidashi M12w Takarafuji (5-10)

M12e Chiyotairyu (6-9) yorikiri M14w Kimurayama (6-9)

M15e Fujiazuma (8-7) tsukidashi M11w Wakanosato (7-8)

M13w Tenkaiho (6-9) yorikiri M10e Yoshikaze (7-8)

M6w Masunoyama (8-7) oshidashi M9w Takayasu (10-5)

M5w Takekaze (8-7) tsukiotoshi M10w Wakakoyu (6-9)

M8w Okinoumi (11-4) yorikiri M5e Tochiozan (9-6)

M4w Toyohibiki (7-8) oshidashi M8e Daido (7-8)

M7w Shotenro (6-9) sukuinage M2w Gagamaru (4-11)

M9e Kitataiki (6-9) yorikiri M2e Aran (3-12)

M3e Homasho (9-6) yorikiri M1w Kaisei (7-8)

M1e Shohozan (7-8) oshidashi M3w Toyonoshima (6-9)

K1w Tochinoshin (6-9) yorikiri M7e Miyabiyama (5-10)

M6e Tokitenku (6-9) hatakikomi K1e Aoiyama (4-11)

S1w Goeido (8-7) yorikiri M11e Kyokutenho (10-5)

M4e Aminishiki (10-5) tsukiotoshi S1e Myogiryu (10-5)

O3w Kakuryu (11-4) oshidashi O1w Kisenosato (10-5)

O1e Harumafuji (15-0) shitatenage Y1e Hakuho (13-2)

Juryo Yusho Playoff

J3w Jokoryu uwatedashinage J1e Ikioi

List of Yusho

Makuuchi: Harumafuji (4th)

Juryo: Jokoryu (1st)

Makushita: Ryuden

Sandanme: Hagane

Jonidan: Iwasaki

Jonokuchi: Sotenryu

List of Sansho

Gino-sho: Myogiryu (4th)

Shukun-sho: Tochiozan (1st)

Kanto-sho: not awarded

[Asashosakari 18,967]

Jokoru now was in a kettei-sen in all five divsions below makuuchi and won all except in jonidan exactly one year ago against Watanabe (who incidentally had a 4-3 at Ms13e following his sandanme yusho last basho). That single loss prevents him from a chance to catch up with Tochiazuma, the only rikishi yet to win a yusho in all six divisions.

Ahem.

BTW, I forget if we noted it at the time - Jokoryu went way beyond everybody else by participating in a playoff in 4 consecutive tournaments earlier. Nobody else even had a streak of 3.