What basho/bout is this image from?

[nagora 88]

sss

[Seiyashi 4,097]

Are we sure that's not shōkkiri? The crowd looks awfully upbeat and dense for a lower division bout, and I doubt that kind of pose, even if a freeze frame, is realistically possible between two rikishi of the same build in an ordinary bout. Also the shimpan and next gyōji are absent, so it can't be a honbasho bout.

Edited November 25, 2022 by Seiyashi

[nagora 88]

10 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

Are we sure that's not shōkkiri? The crowd looks awfully upbeat and dense for a lower division bout, and I doubt that kind of pose, even if a freeze frame, is realistically possible between two rikishi of the same build in an ordinary bout. Also the shimpan and next gyōji are absent, so it can't be a honbasho bout.

Good point. I just stumbled on the image in a Google search. It's pretty striking even if shōkkiri.

[Seiyashi 4,097]

4 minutes ago, nagora said:

Good point. I just stumbled on the image in a Google search. It's pretty striking even if shōkkiri.

Found:

https://youtu.be/-P6opaZeHO4?list=PLFEzXnIQVwV9JgQkOMJZM23G8g-wBBWKf&t=10

From Sumopedia on kinjite, and yes, it was shōkkiri.

[nagora 88]

Thanks for that.

[Kenneth Minami 68]

9 hours ago, nagora said:

Good point. I just stumbled on the image in a Google search. It's pretty striking even if shōkkiri.

If both toriteki (under-juryo rikishi) in torikumi have oicho-mage, it is always shokkiri.

[Seiyashi 4,097]

5 hours ago, Kenneth Minami said:

If both toriteki (under-juryo rikishi) in torikumi have oicho-mage, it is always shokkiri.

Damn, I didn't spot that but it's very obvious on hindsight.