Honbasho

You are a nineteen-year-old rikishi with a new ring name and the bottom line of the banzuke. Sumo as a contact sport of weight and balance, not combo strings: read your opponent at the shikiri line, commit to a charge, and the tachi-ai lands in a burst of salt and clay. What follows is a live struggle for one centre of gravity — shove, pull, work him toward the straw. Every finish is a real kimarite, named and called. Fifteen bouts decide each of six tournaments, and the banzuke is rewritten around your name.