Ozeki - Ozeki

Japanese: 大関 - おおぜき
Ozeki - Ozeki

A sumo term. In the Muromachi period, a person who defeated an opponent in sumo was said to have "taken a seki." Seki means a checkpoint or barrier, and taking and defending a barrier signifies a strong person, and the title came to be used as an honorific, either "seki" or "sekitori." In the mid-Edo period, professional sumo began to flourish, and during the Genroku period (1688-1704), a ranking system was compiled to show the strength of wrestlers, with the character "dai" placed above the seki, and ozeki was placed at the highest rank, and sekitori became a general term for high-ranking wrestlers. From the Edo period to the early Meiji period, the highest rank was ozeki, and the character "yokozuna" was not added to the sumo ranking system until the May tournament of 1890 (Meiji 23).

[Masao Ikeda]

[Reference] | Yokozuna

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

相撲(すもう)用語。室町時代、相撲で相手を倒し、勝ち抜いた者を「関を取る」といった。関は関所、関門のことで、関を取って守ることは強者を意味し、「関」とも「関取」とも尊称するようになった。江戸中期、プロ相撲の隆盛をみるようになり、元禄(げんろく)年間(1688~1704)に、力士の強弱順位を示す番付が編成され、関の上に大の字を冠して、最高位に大関を置くようになり、関取は上位力士の総称となった。江戸時代から明治時代初期まで、最高位は大関で、横綱という文字が相撲番付に記載されるようになったのは、1890年(明治23)5月場所からである。

[池田雅雄]

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