A honbasho (Japanese: 本場所), or Grand Sumo Tournament in English, is an official professional sumo tournament. Only honbasho results matter in determining...
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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...
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sumo. Only performances in official tournaments or honbasho are included here. Since 1958, six honbasho have been held every year, giving wrestlers from...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Fukuoka Kokusai Center, Nov. 2005 honbasho...
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Denya language Basho, a concept in Kitaro Nishida's philosophy Basho and honbasho, a sumo wrestling tournament Diana Basho (born 2000), Albanian swimmer...
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essential to the traditional running of professional sumo tournaments (honbasho) in Japan. The yobidashi are involved in building the dohyō (wrestling...
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