Great Sumo Tournaments (Honbasho)
A guide to honbasho, the six official annual Grand Sumo tournaments that determine championships, records, promotion, and demotion in professional sumo.
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Banzuke
A banzuke is professional sumo’s official ranking sheet, arranging wrestlers by division, rank, number, and East–West position while also recording other participants in Grand Sumo.
Sumo
Sumo is a Japanese wrestling tradition encompassing professional tournaments, amateur competition, stable life, ritual performance, and a long history of public spectacle.