Basho can be specified as ranges and/or comma-separated.

The basho can be written with six digits of year and month (e.g. 200703) or with a dot between year and month (e.g. 2007.03). The notation now in the Basho field means the current basho.

You can also enter specific years (or ranges of years) instead of basho. They have to be specified with 4 digits. Years and basho also may be mixed (e.g. 2005-2006.07).

Day also can be specified as ranges and/or comma-separated. Enter 16 for yusho kettei-sen (yusho playoff) bouts.

By default, all matching results regardless of division are included. If you don't want that, tick one or more of the Division checkboxes. Bouts between rikishi of different divisions are always listed as occuring in the higher division.

Please note that lower division records before Kyushu 1998 are quite incomplete. You can see in the database statistics which basho have complete results.

Shikona

Enter a search pattern in the Shikona field to find rikishi with a matching shikona.

Example: to find Chiyotaikai, simply write Chiyotaikai in the search field.

You can also use wildcards * and ?, where * means match anything, and ? means match exactly one character. The whole pattern has to match.

Examples:
write koto* to search for rikishi starting with Koto.
write *azuma* to search for rikishi with azuma anywhere in their shikona.

The search is case-insensitive.

More than one shikona can be entered, seperate them with a comma.

You can enter the shikona in English or Japanese (either kanji or kana is possible, but not mixed).

Ticking the checkbox Include changes enables you to include results under a different shikona – the only condition here is that the searched shikona must have been used at some time in his career

Example: writing Takamisakari and ticking the checkbox Include changes will also find his results under his former shikona Kato.

Heya and Shusshin

Select a heya or a shusshin (= birth place) to restrict the search results to rikishi with the selected heya or shusshin.

You can also specify All Japanese or All foreigners.

Note that several of the Japanese shusshin are historic and not in usage anymore since 1946.

Rank

Rank can be specified in a number of ways:

• Y
• sandanme
• k-m
• M
• Ms1W
• M2-M4w
• M1E, M2-M4

Sanyaku

Regardless of whether there are two or more yokozuna on the banzuke, writing YE or YW will only select the two east or west yokozuna, and analogous for the rest of sanyaku.

Y means any yokozuna, Y1E is equivalent to YE. Y1 means YE and YW, Y2 means Y2E and Y2W etc. If you want to specify all east yokozuna regardless of number, write Y1E, Y2E, Y3E. The same goes for the rest of sanyaku.

Maegashira and lower divisions

Ranges are very useful here. m3-m1 will work, and so will M14-J2 or M2W-M4, but not M6-8 (write M6-M8 instead). Just M will select all maegashira, as does J, Ms, Sd, Jd and Jk for the lower divisions. Mz selects Mae-zumo, while Bg gets all Banzuke-gai rikishi.

To specify “maegashira 10 or lower maegashira”, write M10-M23.

Please note that lower division records before Kyushu 1998 are quite incomplete. You can see in the database statistics which basho have complete results.

Wins

Wins can be specified as ranges and/or comma-separated, just like rank.

In the adjacent combobox you can specify if these wins are meant to be after the bout, before the bout or the final basho result.

Division

By default, all results are included. If you want to restrict to inter-divisional bouts, tick the checkbox From lower. Ticking Same as bout for both rikishi will restrict the results to intra-divisional bouts.

Debut

With the Debut checkboxes you can search for first appearances at a certain position on the banzuke.

• Division finds division debuts (first time in makuuchi, juryo or one of the lower divisions).
• Rank finds rikishi who are on a new career high rank in that basho.

Yusho

Yusho is yusho (division championship), Jun-yusho is runner-up including yusho-doten (playoff loss, marked with D in the tables).

Sansho

• Shukun-sho = Outstanding Performance Prize
• Kanto-sho = Fighting Spirit Prize
• Gino-sho = Technique Prize

Other Options

The standard output of a search often is giving more results than desired, especially you will often see the same bout two times, just with rikishi switching sides. If you want to limit those results to only one bout you can tick one of these options to determine the condition for the selection.

You can restrict the results by selecting a kimarite from the combobox.

You can select bouts with specific head to head standings by entering the required wins in the Wins rikishi 1 and/or Wins rikishi 2 fields. The wins can be entered the same way as in the Rikishi → Wins field.

With the combobox you can tell if the head to head count is required to be after the bout or before the bout.

Note that these head to head counts are tallying all meetings between two rikishi (not for example only in the makuuchi division). If you want to see career head to head scores or restrict the head to head scores to a subset, you will have to group the results by rikishi 1 and rikishi 2.

You can group search results by basho, day, division, rikishi 1, rikishi 2 or kimarite and select up to two of these for the groupings.

Example: search for kimarite kimedashi and group by rikishi 1. The result will be a table with the rikishi with the most bouts with kimedashi (win or lose), and number of the bouts.

When grouping by basho, day or division, all basho, days or divisions will be returned (as far as allowed by the Basho and division options). Groups without matching results will be listed with 0 matches, naturally.

When grouping by rikishi 1 or rikishi 2, the result table will have an extra column listing the summary record of the bouts. This record always is from perspective of rikishi 1 (for example a group record of 10-5 means rikishi 1 won 10 bouts and rikishi 2 won 5 bouts in that group).

You can also restrict to finding groups with at least, at most or exactly the number of bouts. Requiring 0 matches is not possible for grouping by rikishi or kimarite.

If Expand result is not checked (default), you will get a summary with just the number of bouts for each group. If the checkbox is checked, you will get the full query result (same as without grouping) but the results for each group will be marked and kept together. Exception: if at most 0 or exactly 0 is selected, Expand result will have no effect.