A carefully prepared banzuke listing the full hierarchy is published two weeks prior to each sumo tournament.

It is the venue of a professional sumo tournament (honbasho) held in March every year.

In 1996 as a primary school fourth grader, he came in runner up at a national children's sumo tournament.

In the late 1980s he presented Channel 4's coverage of sumo tournaments.

He was well known in local amateur sumo tournaments by the age of 16.

A professional sumo tournament, held 6 times a year in the modern era, where the results affect the wrestlers' rankings.

The final day of a sumo tournament.

In the modern age, retired wrestlers can no longer take part in any special sumo tournaments.

A. The richly traditional sumo tournaments take place six times a year.

His father was a construction worker who competed in amateur sumo tournaments.