Top Division Record
Note: The Osaka tournament resumed in 1953. The Kyushu tournament was first held in 1957, and the Nagoya tournament in 1958.
| Year in sumo | January Hatsu basho, Tokyo |
March Haru basho, Osaka |
May Natsu basho, Tokyo |
July Nagoya basho, Nagoya |
September Aki basho, Tokyo |
November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | West Maegashira #18 11–4 F |
x | East Maegashira #9 10–5 |
x | East Maegashira #4 4–11 |
x |
| 1951 | East Maegashira #7 11–4 F |
x | East Maegashira #1 8–7 ★ |
x | East Komusubi 7–8 |
x |
| 1952 | West Komusubi 5–10 |
x | West Maegashira #4 5–10 |
x | West Maegashira #9 10–5 |
x |
| 1953 | West Maegashira #3 8–7 ★★★ |
East Maegashira #1 8–7 ★ |
East Maegashira #1 8–7 ★ |
x | West Komusubi 8–7 |
x |
| 1954 | West Sekiwake 8–7 O |
East Sekiwake 9–6 |
East Sekiwake 9–6 |
x | West Sekiwake 11–4 O |
x |
| 1955 | East Sekiwake 7–7–1draw |
West Sekiwake 10–4–1draw |
West Sekiwake 8–7 |
x | West Sekiwake 10–4–1draw T |
x |
| 1956 | East Ōzeki 13–2 |
East Ōzeki 12–3–P |
East Ōzeki 12–3–P |
x | East Ōzeki 12–2–1 |
x |
| 1957 | East Ōzeki 11–4 |
East Ōzeki 10–5 |
East Ōzeki 11–4 |
x | East Ōzeki 11–4 |
East Ōzeki 12–3 |
| 1958 | East Ōzeki 13–2 |
East Yokozuna 12–3 |
West Yokozuna 11–4 |
East Yokozuna 13–2 |
East Yokozuna 14–1 |
East Yokozuna 12–2–1draw |
| 1959 | East Yokozuna 14–1 |
East Yokozuna 12–3 |
East Yokozuna 14–1–P |
West Yokozuna 11–4 |
West Yokozuna 14–1 |
East Yokozuna 11–4 |
| 1960 | West Yokozuna 0–3–12 |
East Yokozuna 15–0 |
East Yokozuna 13–2 |
East Yokozuna 13–2 |
East Yokozuna 13–2 |
East Yokozuna 5–4–6 |
| 1961 | West Yokozuna 12–3 |
Sat out due to injury 0–0–15 |
West Yokozuna 10–5 |
East Yokozuna 3–4–8 |
West Yokozuna 10–5 |
East Yokozuna 11–4 |
| 1962 | East Yokozuna 11–4 |
West Yokozuna 0–2–13 |
East Yokozuna Retired 0–0 |
x | x | x |
| Record given as win-loss-absent Top Division Champion Retired Lower Divisions Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi(s); P=Playoff(s) |
||||||
Read more about this topic: Wakanohana Kanji I
Famous quotes containing the words top, division and/or record:
“Thats how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lords portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.
“Death is another milestone on their way.
With laughter on their lips and with winds blowing round them
They record simply
How this one excelled all others in making driving belts.”
—Stephen Spender (19091995)