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<p>Rikishi being listed as a lone Ozeki on a banzuke - subsequently
requiring a Yokozuna (if present) to be designated as
Yokozuna-Ozeki - is rare but not ultra rare. It actually happened
more frequently in the late 1970's and early 1980's and a couple
of times in he 1950's as well. And we (me included) already seem
to have forgotten the last time we only had one Ozeki. Just like
this time it was also Takakeisho, namely during Haru 2020 (after
Goeido's demotion).</p>
<p>But I hadn't seen a single previous occasion of both 4 Sekiwake
and 4 Komusubi occur on a banzuke until Akinomaki in the Sumo
Forum pointed out that Japanese media had already mentioned the
last time it happened, namely 1962 Natsu. That banzuke had 3
Yokozuna and 3 Ozeki as well, tough, making a total of 13 rikishi
ranked at Komusubi or higher.<br>
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<p>However, I'm relatively confident that only 1 Ozeki on a banzuke
(let alone with 1 Yokozuna, never mind if he's designated as
Yokozuna-Ozeki or not) in COMBINATION with 4 Sekiwake and 4
Komusubi probably never occurred before. 😉</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Chijanofuji<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26-Dec-22 04:30, Murray Johnson
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<div dir="ltr">1993 Hatsu Akebono Y Konishiki O was one instance.</div>
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<div>The matter of the yokozuna-ozeki was discussed during
the last basho when it became apparent Shodai would be
demoted. I personally do not recall another instance of
the current configuration in the 30 years I have been
following sumo.</div>
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<div>Kodaiyama<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at
8:21 PM Inside Sport: Japan <<a
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There must always be
two ozeki so Terunofuji is listed as ‘yokozuna-ozeki’ this
basho just as Kakuryu was a few years ago when there was
also only one true ozeki.<br>
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> On Dec 26, 2022, at 10:12, Jan de Veen via Sumo <<a
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> As far as I know it has never occurred before.<br>
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> Only one Ozeki does occur more frequently than we
might think, but both 4 Sekiwake and 4 Komusubi is already
unprecedented, let alone in combination with only 1 Ozeki.<br>
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> Kind regards,<br>
> <br>
> Chijanofuji<br>
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> On 26-Dec-22 01:30, R. Brown wrote:<br>
>> Four sekiwaki and four komusubi, but only one
ozeki. When was the last time there was such a ranking?<br>
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>> Kodaiyama</blockquote>
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