honbasho
basho

The system was established for the honbasho in the May 1927 tournament.

Six honbasho or official tournaments are held each year.

A wrestler's absence from a honbasho, usually due to injury.

A literal translation of honbasho is "main (or real) tournament".

He sits out this month's regional tour and also misses the Kyushu honbasho.

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

Banners are unfurled from the ceiling when this is achieved during honbasho.

Baruto won the jūryō division March 2006 honbasho tournament with a perfect 15-0 result.

Hakuho wins the first honbasho of the year.

In 2005 he became the first wrestler to win all six official tournaments (honbasho) in a single year.

Awarded to a maegashira who defeats a yokozuna during a honbasho.

Participation in at least one maezumō bout is required to enter the jonokuchi division for the following honbasho.

Regional tours in Japan and sometimes abroad, undertaken between honbasho, during which the wrestlers give exhibition matches.

This will be the first time since 1946 (when the bomb-damaged Kokugikan was undergoing renovation) that a honbasho has been called off.

A wrestler who is scheduled to fight the yokozuna on a particular day of a honbasho (or tournament) will not act as his tsuyuharai.

Honbasho schedule from the Japan Times.

Only honbasho results matter in determining promotion and relegation for rikishi (sumo wrestlers).

Compare honbasho.

Hakuhō made his professional debut at the March tournament (honbasho) in Osaka in 2001.

It is awarded in each of the six annual honbasho or official tournaments, to the wrestler who wins the most number of bouts.

As from July 1993 the upper ranked yobidashi also had their names included on the banzuke, the ranking sheet produced prior to each honbasho.

Rank is determined only by performance in Grand Sumo Tournaments (or honbasho), which are described in more detail below.

He continued to dominate sumo in 2005, becoming the first wrestler ever to win all six honbasho (sumo tournaments) in the same year.

A honbasho or sumo tournament is held every July at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.

He did not reach the top makuuchi division until September 1971, but he was a runner-up in only his second honbasho or tournament in the division.

His seventh straight basho championship is also a new record.

However, in the following July basho he recorded only a disappointing 9-6.

Basho's best haiku were written in the last five years of his life.

They wanted to return to the spirit of Basho.

Basho, at least, found all this history and scenery quite seductive.

The basho of being is a ground that supports all beings existing in space.

Basho's services have been deployed at more than 200 enterprises worldwide.

It deals with the poet Basho and the changing political landscape over about 35 years.

Sagatsukasa also returns to the top division for the first time in 7 basho.

He announced his retirement after the January 2013 basho.

This basho is beyond the categories of being/non-being and birth/death.

Ryūko made his tournament debut in the January 1957 basho.

Basho worked and reworked one piece over nine years.

You know, there's a haiku by Basho I love very much.

Basho's own words have been passed on to us:

Rather than being a poet, Basho was actually a shinobi disguised as one.

However, his humanity was far distant from Basho's lonely sabi.

There are too many conflicts in you, Basho?

In an unprecedented move, sumo’s governing body cancelled the spring basho, a 15-day tournament that was to begin on March 13th.

He planted the plant and called himself Basho because it became his favorite tree in his garden.

Only the basho of absolute nothingness is truly transcendent and universal.

Ma'am," said Basho, his countenance concerned, "how can we know that?

Sitting out the September 2003 basho, he returned in November but had a disastrous tournament.

He fought in eight tournaments as yokozuna, retiring after the January 1922 basho.

It was Basho himself who first brought to light the fact that significance transcends ugliness and beauty.