A yokozuna is a person who has reached the highest rank of sumo wrestler.
The champion sumo (Yokozuna) is inside the sumo match place.
The Yokozuna are Mongolian
The highest rank in sumo wrestling is 'yokozuna'.
Yokozuna (横綱) is the highest rank in sumo wrestling. The name comes from the most visible symbol of their rank, the wide (yoko) rope (tsuna) worn around the waist. The rope bears a marked similarity to the Shinto shimekazari rope often attached to torii temple gates and sacred trees, and like them serves to purify and mark off its content. The rope, which may weigh up to 20 kilograms, is not used during the matches themselves, but is worn during the yokozuna's dohyo-iri ring entrance ceremony.
Rikishi is the general term for a sumo wrestler. They can also be named by their rank, such as Yokozuna or Ozeki. There are ten ranks in sumo, some of them have up to ten levels inside them.
You go to the sumo wrestling place and do Kanji copies, then sumo wrestle. You have to defeat the Yokozuna (champion), which makes the policeman lose his bet.
Asashoryu is the best sumo wrestler and he is probably the best sumo wrestler of all time. because he is too strong and very fast for his weight he is one of the most successful yokozunaever.
The top of the sumo ranks is called Yokozuna. Right below it is Ozeki. The lowest rank is that of Jonokuchi.
You train at the Lake House (far left) but only after you beat the Yokozuna at the sumo match.
It is a topknot. The chonmage is the topknot worn for daily ware. The highest ranking Yokozuna wear the gingko leaf.
Masahiko Nomi has written: 'Yokozuna monogatari' -- subject(s): Wrestlers, Sumo, Biography, Anecdotes