tsuna 綱
The thick braided rope a yokozuna wears for ceremonies.
The tsuna is the thick braided rope a yokozuna wears over his ceremonial apron, tied at the back with zigzag paper strips hanging at the front. It mirrors the sacred ropes at Shinto shrines, and the JSA says it usually weighs 11 to 15 kg. He only wears it for ceremonies. The rank's name, yokozuna, means horizontal rope.
Related words
- yokozuna 横綱
- Grand champion, the top rank. A yokozuna can't be demoted.
- Unryū-gata 雲龍型
- Yokozuna ceremony style: left arm bent in, right arm out.
- Shiranui-gata 不知火型
- Yokozuna ceremony style: both arms held out.
- keshō-mawashi 化粧廻し
- The embroidered ceremonial apron sekitori wear to enter the ring.