BANZUKE

Six tournaments a year — Hatsu (Jan), Haru (Mar), Natsu (May), Nagoya (Jul), Aki (Sep), Kyūshū (Nov) — each opening with a dohyo-iri ring-entering ceremony (Yokozuna perform their own stomping shiko). Step through each day's bouts, or skip straight to the final day. Use the panel dropdown above to check bouts, results, dossiers, or the Kyōkai board. Every rikishi has an age (visible in the Rikishi Dossier) that climbs two months each basho. Injury risk rises with age, especially past 40, and can strike younger rikishi too, though rarely — an injured rikishi takes kyūjo (rest) rather than being forced out. For a Yokozuna, kyūjo never affects his rank; for everyone else, the absence counts as a poor record. Age itself also drives retirement, more likely as a rikishi gets older. Retiring rikishi may join the Sumo Kyōkai as an elder, and every two years the board elects a new Chairman. Rank movement is driven by each rikishi's win-loss differential. Yokozuna, Ozeki, and sanyaku promotions now ask for your acceptance as the Kyōkai. After each basho you may edit the banzuke yourself via the dropdown above — whatever you confirm there is what the sheet will follow next.