[MOMENT OF SUCCESS]
Takanosho got
kachikoshi in his first
top level basho
this means more wins than losses,
if you’re a sumo novice
the opposite is
makekoshi, and either
means rankings movements
up or down the overall
rankings, released each basho
there’s a banzuke
scroll, where every rikishi
is written in ink
at the top, largest letters,
are current yokozuna
the names get smaller
the further down banzuke
scroll, to the bottom
at the very bottom are
those young men new to sumo
thus, Takanosho,
in first basho at sumo’s
top level, did well
promising young rikishi,
increasing their scroll ink size
personally, I
find this so fascinating -
worth displayed by size
if there was an all-time scroll,
Hakuho’s name’d be biggest
day fourteen, he locked
down another yusho win -
his forty-first one
no rikishi - or even
yokozuna - matches that
the young and the old,
and how their trajectories
intersect - sumo
daily bouts for fifteen days,
six bashos a year - sumo
a sporting culture
thick with ceremony, and
corruption - sumo
stories unfolding slowly
like nature itself - sumo
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