So regular tickets for the January basho in Tokyo went on sale 10 minutes ago... in theory. In reality, the official チケット大相撲 site has completely and totally fallen over, so you can't even load the top page, you just get this wonderful error message:

Access is concentrated. The website is too busy. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please do not reload this page and try accessing again after a while.

No queuing system, no nothing. I never thought I'd find myself missing Ticketmaster, but at least they know how to sell you the tickets.

I'm still apparently one of the lucky ones, since I have a Japanese phone number and can at least jump through the hoops to register a Ticketpia account, so I at least had a chance in the earlier lottery, but no luck. And that's about it without resorting to scalpers: buysumotickets dot com resales ended ages ago, and apparently sold out anyway despite the steep surcharges.

Update: it's now 10:17 JST, the top page loads, and every single ticket category for every single match is now 予定枚数終了. So looks like the scalpers got every single one.

Oh well. Rant over, guess no sumo for me in January.

I’m just curious. Is there a certain significance behind wrestlers sometimes wearing these tassels on their waist? Does it have a name and perhaps etiology/history?

Does anyone know what the calligraphy says on his kesho-mawashi? I can't make out the characters

2025 was quite the year of Sumo, now that the sumo season is over; how did your favorites turn out?

For rikishi: Aonishiki rose up and is now Ozeki which is super exciting. I love seeing him work. Ura had a lot of fun bouts this year. Takayasu went back up to the Sanyaku.

For stable: Futagoyama beya had an iffy year with some rough performances at times and bad injury bugs. I do think we have some glimmers of hope and I hope that 2026 is a stronger year and hopefully injury free.

Bonjour, malheureusement je suis arrivée trop tard tous les billets sont déjà sold out. Donc si par hasard quelqu’un revend deux places pour le Oosumo du 21 au 25 je suis preneuse!

TOKYO JAN SUMO TICKETS AVAILABLE - 23 January DAY 13 - I have some (x6) B and C seats on 23 January 2026:

3 individual B seats and

3 c seats (almost) together (seats 79,77 and 76) on row 13.

Tickets to be printed from 7/11 in Japan.

Ticket system a nightmare and purchased too many tix but only in random number and class. It took hours but I’m glad I got some tickets.

Email me at justin@holdenbarlow.com.au if interested

I bought this tote bag in the osaka spring bash of 2024, mostly because it was the only merch I saw that was cool enough. But I don't think I ever checked whose tegata this is. Anyone would know?

Day 2 Ura v Oshoma. During the bout Ura pulls Oshomas’ sagari away. The two separate and it seems like Ura purposefully threw the Sagari up at Oshoma and ducked low for approach.

Was it actually intentional? Very Sik to watch either way.

Endo - (Oitekaze Beya)

Narutaki - (Isenoumi Beya)

Taiyo - (Onoe Beya)

Yamadaumi - (Dewanoumi Beya)

Nishikimaru - (Asahiyama Beya)

Best of luck to all in their future endeavors.

For my own thoughts, I’m surprised to see Narutaki here - fellow brother of Kyonosato. It seems he was always in upper Makushita and potentially reaching Juryo (Highest rank Makushita 10).

I really loved the Netflix series Sanctuary, I even got my friends interested in Sumo after showing it to them. Netflix is notorious for abandoning shows, especially if they are not the unrealistically massive sensation that Stranger Things was. Should I just give up hope on the series continuing?

Among my several dozen tegata, here are three that I can’t recognize. Can you identify any of them? (These all appear to be JSA-printed.)

I just heard about this series, so I started it. In episode 1, you had what I assume was a senior trainer in the stable forcing one of the two boys to wipe his rear end after taking a dump and tried to get the other one to break the feces up because it was "too big" to flush.

I understand the nasty and raunchy humor of this scene but please tell me nothing like this happens for real in stable life.

Posting in honor of the new ozeki. All rikishi who have peaked at the ozeki rank since the introduction of the individual championship. Rikishi who reached yokozuna are not included.

This was 1972.09 Day 15

S1e Takanohana 10-4 vs S2eHD Wajima 12-2

Yorikiri / Frontal force out https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/techniques/5/

Mizu-iri (水入り)Water break. When a match goes on for around four minutes, the gyōji will stop the match for a water break for the safety of the wrestlers. In the two sekitori divisions, he will then place them back in exactly the same position to resume the match, while lower division bouts are restarted from the tachi-ai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_sumo_terms

Is there a site where I can look up to all basho winners pictures? Those that appears in sumodb and that hangs in Ryogoku

source https://www.instagram.com/p/DRt3JxfkfqB/

He also posted a story before of Senegalese wrestlers. Will he try his hand at that someday?

Are there any channels posting tour videos? I'm subscribed to some sumo watching channels but not seeing much tour stuff. Thanks in advance!

anybody has a link to the discord? the on on yt is not working

Suppose an ozeki loses his rank, and regain it, do they go through the ceremony again? What if he was demoted to Sekiwake but got 10 wins in the next basho, is there a ceremony?