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Tamawashi pushes number four maegashira Takayasu out of the ring to win on the tournament’s final day, September 25, 2022, at Tokyo’s Ryōgoku Kokugikan. (© Jiji)
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Tamawashi is all smiles at a press conference on September 25, the day after the tournament. (Courtesy of the Japan Sumō Association; © Jiji)
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Mongolia-born Kyokutenhō, then a seventh-ranked maegashira, celebrates at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 20, 2012, after winning the summer basho, setting an age record that Tamawashi would break a decade later. (© Jiji)
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At right, Takahanada (later the yokozuna Takanohana) celebrates becoming the youngest-ever rikishi to win a basho, the 1992 New Year tournament. From left, his older brother Wakahanada (who would go on to be the yokozuna Wakanohana) holds the victory banner, with the brothers’ parents, the oyakata Fujishima (later Futagoyama) and Fujita Noriko, between them. Taken in Nakano, Tokyo, on January 26, 1992. (© Jiji)
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