<div dir="auto">Moti<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best regards,<div>Jeffrey Anderson</div><div dir="auto">Gaijingai </div><div>For of all sad words of tongue or pen,</div><div>The saddest are these:</div><div>It might have been.</div><div>- John Greenleaf Whittier</div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Moti Dichne</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:niramiai@gmail.com">niramiai@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM<br>Subject: [Sumo news] - Some Kyushu 2025 banzuke trivia<br>To: Sumo Newsletter2 <<a href="mailto:sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com">sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The total number of rikishi listed on the Kyushu 2025 banzuke is 598. This is the first time in four bashos since this year in March , when the number was 588, that the number has fallen below 600. The previous record was 943, set in the 1994 May basho, fueled by the "Wakataka boom." Isegahama beya have the most rikishi with 30, followed by Takasago with 25, Oitekaze with 23, Tamanoi with 22, Sakaigawa and Nishonoseki with 21, and Kise and</span><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> Kokonoe with 20. Isegahama and Kise have the most sekitori with six. Isegahama has five makuuchi rikishi and one in Juryo , while Kise beya have three makuuchi and three Juryo rikishi.</span>
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