- A
honbasho (****anese: 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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
Denya language Basho, a
concept in
Kitaro Nishida's
philosophy Basho and
honbasho, a sumo
wrestling tournament Diana Basho (born 2000),
Albanian swimmer...
-
essential to the
traditional running of
professional sumo
tournaments (
honbasho) in ****an. The
yobidashi are
involved in
building the dohyō (wrestling...
- with
sekitori status are
required on
certain occasions, such as
during a
honbasho, to wear
their hair in a more
elaborate form of
topknot called an ōichō...
