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Did you know that 45 kilos of salt a day are used during honbasho?

... and that just for ichinojo's soup, too!

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Worst and best 5 kyujo basho ratio for yokozuna from also the part for Asahi shimbun free registration users (3 free articles a day)

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASH9N5487H9NUTQP02H.html

A ratio for the days absent would say more

Worst 5

50.0% Wakanohana III - 5 out of 10

47.1% Asashio - 8 out of 17

47.1% Tochinoumi - 8 out of 17

42.9% Mienoumi - 3 out of 7

42.9% Takanosato - 6 out of 14

Best 5

00.0% Tamanoumi - 0 out of 10

02.0% Hakuho - 1 out of 49

16.7% Asashoryu - 7 out of 42

17.4% Wajima - 8 out of 46

17.7% Kitanoumi - 11 out of 62

the other long term yokozuna (these 2 are maybe a calculation based on days absent)

20.7% Chiyonofuji - 59 basho

22.8% Taiho - 58 basho

next to Hakuho, the 6th in no. of basho

27.1% Akebono - 13 out of 48

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Tamanoumi died during his tenure as Yokozuna in October 1971. I assume they painted him out of the banzuke or else he would have had a complete basho absent. Apologies for the bad taste.

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Tamanoumi died during his tenure as Yokozuna in October 1971. I assume they painted him out of the banzuke or else he would have had a complete basho absent. Apologies for the bad taste.

They did, but at the time they did that for everyone who left between banzuke creation and banzuke release. Various makushita divisions of that era are a few spots short of 120 rikishi.

(However, to nitpick: Even today, somebody who retires before the basho begins doesn't receive a 0-0-7/0-0-15 record, e.g. Wakanosato right now.)

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(However, to nitpick: Even today, somebody who retires before the basho begins doesn't receive a 0-0-7/0-0-15 record, e.g. Wakanosato right now.)

Just like Konishiki ended his career with a 5-9 record.
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Itadaki is a nice kid. He was planning to quit a while back, which I believe was what caused his kyujo last year. I, for one, am glad he stayed in. Itadaki suits him more than Kikuchi, too.

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I assume so. I haven't inquired. There are broken homes everywhere, but far too many more in mixed marriages here. There are a lot of mixed kids here who, sad to say, only have their mothers.

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The last 8 man ketteisen was in Hatsu 2012.
The most ever in a ketteisen were 12 in Kyushu 1973, jonidan (the database only lists the tomoesen results after the 2 tournament rounds). The winner with 4 straight wins was Saisu, who is still sewanin in the NSK, belonging to Isegahama-beya.

The most ever for other divisions: 5 for makuuchi, 8 for juryo (see below), 9 for makushita and 7 for jonokuchi.

The rules: 2, 4, 8: tournament, 3 tomoesen (2 wins in a row required), 6, 12: reduced to 3 by tournament

5: one gets a free win, the other 4 make one tournament round and then there are 3

7: tournament where one gets a first round fusensho

Even the daijiten does not list the rules for 9, it would need fusensho both in the first and 2nd round of a tournament to get to 3 (the one who gets the first has to be excluded from the 2nd drawing to make it fair)
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASH9V4WHXH9VUTQP034.html
8 man juryo ketteisen tournament in 2001 Nagoya with many prestigious names
AS20150926003334_comm.jpg

Edited by Akinomaki
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Tochinoshin got his 5th Kanto-Sho today. There is no active rikishi who had won this prize more often (Kyokutenho: 7, Yoshikaze: 4).

Osunaarashi and Endo (both 8-7) continue to have the same number of wins in the makuuchi division (94). However the Egyptian fought one basho less in the top division.

After their 6-9 makekoshi, Okinoumi (224-224) and Chiyotairyu (128-128) now have perfectly even records in Makuuchi.

After his 9-6, Kotoyuki is now the lowest ranked rikishi to have a positive record in Makuuchi (72-70).

Hidenoumi (6-9) and Seiro (7-8) both got exactly the same record as in their Makuuchi debut last basho.

Fujiazuma and Chiyomaru will finally separate after they were next to each other on the last three rankings (Natsu: M13, Nagoya: J5, Aki: J1).

Shohozan's Juryo Yusho only was his 3rd Juryo kachikoshi in 8 Juryo tournaments.

Edited by Tenshinhan
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Wow that Juryo playoff brings back so many memories. I think there were a couple people that could have won outright if they won their matches on senshuraku. And with all the names in there, it was pretty something.

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By his win over Kotoshogiku Hakuho secured to become best Rikishi of the year for the 9th time in a row, starting in 2007.

This, after missing almost a whole basho.

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By his win over Kotoshogiku Hakuho secured to become best Rikishi of the year for the 9th time in a row, starting in 2007.

This, after missing almost a whole basho.

he is hakuho

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