A honbasho (Japanese: 本場所), or Grand Sumo Tournament in English, is an official professional sumo tournament. Only honbasho results matter in determining...

wine cup (sakazuki). Basho (場所) 'Venue'. Any sumo tournament. Compare honbasho. Binbōgami (貧乏神) 'God of poverty'. In sumo ranking, the top jūryō wrestlers...

sumo. Only performances in official tournaments or honbasho are included here. Since 1958, six honbasho have been held every year, giving wrestlers from...

rice-straw bales 4.55 meters in diameter. In official professional tournaments (honbasho), it is mounted on a square platform of clay 66 cm high and 6.7m wide on...

Shinpan are the ring-side judges of a professional sumo bout. In a sumo honbasho tournament, five shimpan sit around the ring to observe which wrestler...

In the July 2021 honbasho he became the first wrestler from the stable to reach the rank of komusubi. In the January 2022 honbasho, Wakatakakage became...

later broken by Kaiō. He won the Kyushu tournament, one of the six annual honbasho, a record eight consecutive years from 1981 until 1988, and also set the...

Fukuoka Kokusai Center, Nov. 2005 honbasho...

Denya language Basho, a concept in Kitaro Nishida's philosophy Basho and honbasho, a sumo wrestling tournament Diana Basho (born 2000), Albanian swimmer...

(Makuuchi) division sumo wrestlers for exceptional performance during a sumo honbasho or tournament. The prizes were first awarded in November 1947. All wrestlers...