jonokuchi 序ノ口
The sixth and lowest division, where new recruits first appear.
Jonokuchi is the sixth and lowest division, where new recruits first appear on the banzuke. Its size changes with the intake: usually somewhere between 40 and 90 wrestlers, and largest in May after new recruits arrive. Its wrestlers fight seven bouts a tournament.
Related words
- jonidan 序二段
- The fifth division. Its size isn't fixed.
- maezumō 前相撲
- Debut bouts for new recruits who aren't on the banzuke yet.
- shin-deshi 新弟子
- A new recruit.