Kyushu 2014 Banzuke

[Akinomaki]

Apparent lower-division shikona changes:

Hiroshima -> Sd79e Munakata

Munakata from Munakata city (Fukuoka pref.) with the mayor. Hiroshima (real name) changed in time for his local basho and ready for the campaign of the city to get world heritage status - the mayor had asked the koenkai to make this change.

http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/f_toshiken/article/124748

[Shiro]

I remember watching the Tournament where Amuru was injured. I remember thinking "This guy is looking good!" and then the ruptured knee. Glad to see him finally making his top division debut.

I read that Harumafuji is undecided on returning this Basho after the eye injury. I hope he does what's best. Would really like to see him in the mix of what looks like a very exciting tournament.

[Asameshimae]

Has it come up here: when was the last time a rikishi skipped komusubi on his sanyaku debut? Or when was the last time a rikishi made sanyaku in his second basho (let alone sekiwake)?

[Doitsuyama]

Has it come up here: when was the last time a rikishi skipped komusubi on his sanyaku debut? Or when was the last time a rikishi made sanyaku in his second basho (let alone sekiwake)?

The question can be answered with an easy query. The first not I'm afraid but I think this has been answered in the past and Asashosakari will soon link to it. (Sigh...)

[Asameshimae]

An easy query is a relative thing. Noone has ever said to me, "that is a difficult banzuke query", implying of course they are all easy. I am notoriously bad at using the query. I just don't have the mind for it. On the other hand, I am a very accomplished whistler.

I figured most of the examples of Ichinojo's achievement were from antiquity (and therefore largely not comparable) and your banzuke query supports that. Though there are a few interesting modern sumo era achievers.

[Asameshimae]

If you want the 3115 × 4051 10MB version of this photo let me know where to email it. Everything can be read clearly on it.

I have banzuke of pretty much every basho from 2007 ~ 2014 too in case anyone is looking for one.

Nice! On my Mac, I can see it quite clearly in the thread without doing anything special.

I recall wondering out loud recently how nice it would be if there were an "online repository of printed banzuke" and I believe Doitsuyama said he would put them up if someone had the files. :-D I realize that might be quite an endeavor of which I could not contribute much; I have only maybe 10 or so banzuke-hyo through the years, as I have never been a collector.

[Asashosakari]

Has it come up here: when was the last time a rikishi skipped komusubi on his sanyaku debut? Or when was the last time a rikishi made sanyaku in his second basho (let alone sekiwake)?

The question can be answered with an easy query. The first not I'm afraid but I think this has been answered in the past and Asashosakari will soon link to it. (Sigh...)

Don't know if we've ever listed them here on the forum, but in fact there's a query for it. ;-)

That's all rikishi who were promoted directly from a maegashira rank to their sekiwake debut - for those rikishi with a maegashira rank in the "highest rank" column, it was also their sanyaku debut.

[Asameshimae]

If you alter the first query (even I can do that) to take out komusubi and show skipping from a division debut to sekiwake, you get a much shorter list and one that indeed is not paralleled in modern sumo. Of course I realize if you go far back enough you see men that we're just a local big guy who debuted at ozeki. But that is neither here nor there.

http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Query.aspx?show_form=0&form1_m=on&form1_debutd=on&form2_rank=S&form2_debutr=on

Edited November 12, 2014 by Asameshimae