Professional sumo

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English: Professional sumo, also known as the Grand Sumo Tournaments (大相撲 Ōzumō), is organized by the Japan Sumo Association. It is not only one of the sports but there is a side of the succession of the traditional skills and culture of Japan, like Nō and Kabuki.

[edit] Yokozuna

1: Akashi Shiganosuke	2: Ayagawa Gorōji	4: Tanikaze Kajinosuke	5: Onogawa Kisaburō
6: Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke	7: Inazuma Raigorō	8: Shiranui Dakuemon	9: Hidenoyama Raigorō
10: Unryū Kyūkichi	11: Shiranui Kōemon (left)	12: Jinmaku Kyūgorō	13: Kimenzan Tanigorō (right)
14: Sakaigawa Namiemon	15: Umegatani Tōtarō I	16: Nishinoumi Kajirō I	17: Konishiki Yasokichi I
18: Ōzutsu Man'emon (3rd from left)	19: Hitachiyama Taniemon	20: Umegatani Tōtarō II	21:Wakashima Gonshirō
22: Tachiyama Mineemon	23:Okido Moriemon	24: Ōtori Tanigorō	25: Nishinoumi II (centre)
26: Ōnishiki Uichirō	27: Tochigiyama Moriya	28: Ōnishiki Daigorō	29: Miyagiyama Fukumatsu
30:Nishinoumi Kajirō III	31: Tsunenohana Kan'ichi	32: Tamanishiki Sanemon	34: Minanogawa Tōzō
35: Futabayama Sadaji	39: Maedayama Eigorō	41: Chiyonoyama Masanobu	48: Taihō Kōki
53: Kotozakura Masakatsu	58: Chiyonofuji Mitsugu	64: Akebono Tarō	68: Asashōryū Akinori
69: Hakuhō Shō

[edit] Rikishi by decade

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2009

See also: May 2009 Sumo Tournament

Asashōryū, Yokozuna	Hakuhō, Yokozuna	Chiyotaikai, Ōzeki	Kaiō, Ōzeki
Kotomitsuki, Ōzeki	Kotoōshū, Ōzeki	Harumafuji, Ōzeki	Aminishiki, Sekiwake–Maegashira
Baruto, Sekiwake	Goeidō, Sekiwake	Kisenosato, Sekiwake–Maegashira	Kakuryū, Komusubi
Tochiōzan, Komusubi	Toyonoshima, Komusubi–Maegashira	Kyokutenhō, Komusubi–Maegashira

Aran, Maegashira	Asasekiryū, Maegashira	Bushūyama, Maegashira	Chiyohakuhō, Maegashira
Dejima, Maegashira	Futenō, Maegashira	Hokutōriki, Maegashira	Hōmashō, Maegashira
Iwakiyama, Maegashira	Kakizoe, Maegashira	Kimurayama, Maegashira	Kokkai, Maegashira
Kotoshōgiku, Maegashira	Miyabiyama, Maegashira	Mokonami, Maegashira	Shimotori, Maegashira
Shōtenrō, Maegashira	Takamisakari, Maegashira	Takekaze, Maegashira	Tamanoshima, Maegashira
Tamawashi, Maegashira	Tochinonada, Maegashira	Tochinoshin, Maegashira	Tokitenkū, Maegashira
Tosayutaka, Maegashira	Toyohibiki, Maegashira	Yamamotoyama, Maegashira	Yoshikaze, Maegashira

[edit] 2008

Asashōryū, Yokozuna	Kaiō, Ōzeki	Kotoōshū, Ōzeki	Aminishiki, Sekiwake–Maegashira
Kotoshōgiku, Sekiwake–Maegashira	Toyonoshima, Sekiwake–Maegashira	Asasekiryū, Komusubi–Maegashira	Dejima, Komusubi–Maegashira
Kisenosato, Komusubi–Maegashira

Aran, Maegashira–Jūryō	Baruto, Maegashira	Bushūyama, Maegashira–Jūryō	Chiyohakuhō, Maegashira–Jūryō
Futenō, Maegashira	Goeidō, Maegashira	Hakuba, Maegashira–Jūryō	Hokutōriki, Maegashira
Iwakiyama, Maegashira	Kaihō, Maegashira	Kakizoe, Maegashira	Kakuryū, Maegashira
Kasugaō, Maegashira	Kimurayama, Maegashira–Jūryō	Kokkai, Maegashira	Kōryū, Maegashira–Jūryō
Kyokutenhō, Maegashira	Masatsukasa, Maegashira–Jūryō	Miyabiyama, Maegashira	Ōtsukasa, Maegashira–Jūryō
Rohō, Maegashira	Ryūō, Maegashira	Shimotori, Maegashira–Jūryō	Takamisakari, Maegashira
Takekaze, Maegashira	Tamakasuga, Maegashira–Jūryō	Tamanoshima, Maegashira–Jūryō	Tochinonada, Maegashira
Tochinoshin, Maegashira	Tochiōzan, Maegashira	Tokitenkū, Maegashira	Tosanoumi, Maegashira–Jūryō
Toyohibiki, Maegashira	Yoshikaze, Maegashira	Wakanohō, Maegashira	Wakanosato, Maegashira

Asōfuji, Jūryō	Hoshihikari, Jūryō	Kasuganishiki, Jūryō	Kirinowaka, Jūryō
Kitazakura, Jūryō	Shirononami, Jūryō	Toyozakura, Jūryō	Ushiomaru, Jūryō
Wakatenro, Jūryō	Yamamotoyama, Jūryō

Takanoyama, Makushita

[edit] 2007

Hakuhō, Yokozuna

Ama, Komusubi–Sekiwake

Kokkai, Maegashira

Oga, Jūryō

[edit] 2006

Kaiō, Ōzeki

Kotoōshū, Ōzeki

Kotomitsuki, Sekiwake

Takamisakari, Maegashira

[edit] 2005

Asashōryū, Yokozuna

Chiyotaikai, Ōzeki

[edit] 2004

Asashōryū, Yokozuna

Tochiazuma, Ōzeki

[edit] 2001

Akebono, Yokozuna

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 1996

Konishiki, Maegashira

[edit] 1940s

Maedayama Eigorō, Yokozuna

Rikidōzan Mitsuhiro, Sekiwake

[edit] 1930s

Minanogawa Tōzō, Yokozuna

Futabayama Sadaji, Yokozuna

[edit] 1920s

Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Yokozuna

Hitachiiwa Eitarō, Ōzeki

[edit] 1910s

Tachiyama Mineemon, 22nd Yokozuna	Okido Moriemon, 23rd Yokozuna	Ōtori Tanigorō, 24th Yokozuna	Onishiki Uichiro, 26th Yokozuna
Tochigiyama Moriya, 27th Yokozuna	Onishiki Daigoro, 28th Yokozuna

[edit] 1900s

Hitachiyama, Yokozuna

Umegatani Tōtarō II, Yokozuna

[edit] 1890s

Konishiki Yasokichi I, Yokozuna

Hitachiyama, Maegashira

[edit] 1880s

A sumo match showing rikishi [wrestlers], a gyōji [referee] and an audience, Japan, c. 1886, hand-coloured albumen print on a decorated album page by Adolfo Farsari

[edit] 1860s

Shiranui Kōemon (left) and Kimenzan Tanigorō (right), both Yokozuna

[edit] unknown

Sakaigawa Namiemon, 14th Yokozuna	Umegatani Tōtarō I, 15th Yokozuna	Nishinoumi Kajirō I, 16th Yokozuna	Nishinoumi Kajirō II, 25th Yokozuna
Araiwa Kamenosuke, Ōzeki	Shimizugawa Motokichi, Ōzeki	Tamatsubaki Kentaro, Sekiwake

[edit] Other personels

[edit] Gyōji

Shikimori Shiichiro

37th Shikimori Inosuke (May 2007–March 2008), and 35th Kimura Shounosuke (May 2008– )

[edit] Yobidashi

Hideo, Tate-yobidashi

[edit] Oyakata

Unryū Kyūkichi, 10th Yokozuna, as a toshiyori (elder)	Ōnokuni Yasushi (1991 -)	Sakahoko Nobushige (1992-), as a shimpan (umpire)	Daishoyama Naoki (1995-)
Mitoizumi Masayuki (2000-)	Takanohana Kōji (2003-)	Musoyama Masashi (2004-)