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Sumo wrestlers are ranked before every tournament on a chart known as a Banzuke. There are two sides, the east and the west, and each runs down from the top rank (Yokozuna) through a series of other gradings (Ozeki, Sekiwaki, Komusubi, and so on) depending on recent performance. In the twenty-first century, of course, itContinueContinue reading “Towards a Ranking of Rankings”