ōzeki

plural ōzekis

1. alternativeAlternative form of ozeki.

   Being ranked ōzeki meant he was almost a yokozuna.

   2023, Kawausoutan, translated by Adam, “Sumo at the Great Elven Forest”, in Grand Sumo Villainess Z, J-Novel Club, →ISBN

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   And in less than seven years after opening his stable, Azumazeki produced an ōzeki.

   1992, Philbert Ono, “Kōkishin: A New Dawn for Akebono”, in Eye-Ai, Tokyo: Riverfield, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1

   Poor Konishiki, the third Hawaiian, could only manage 6-9, but has a chance of returning to the ōzeki fold in the next tournament.

   1994, Monumenta Nipponica, volume XXV, Tokyo: Sophia University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74

   The sumō cards were stacked in favor of ōzekis Takanohana, Wakanohana, and Takanonami because they were all in the same stable, the Futagoyama Stable, and wrestlers in the same stable didn’t have to fight each other unless they happened to be tied for the lead at the end of their 15th matches.

   1998, Jim Riva, The Geographer, Soaring Sparrow Press, →ISBN, pages 105–106

   A wrestler could gain the rank of ōzeki based on his competitive achievements, but the promotion to yokozuna implied the presence of a certain habitus than embodied the quintessential traditional Japaneseness.

   2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists)