One page that answers a simple question: where does professional sumo stand right now?
Sumo moves fast. A tournament changes every day; rankings reshuffle six times a year; storylines build across months. Most coverage is either a firehose of daily results or a beginner explainer with no current facts. Hakkeyoi tries to be the thing in between — a single, calm, plain-spoken source of truth: what's happening now, what has already happened this year, what's still to come, and just enough background that a newcomer can follow all of it.
The home page is built as a dashboard. The top of it — the dark panel — is a glance: the live tournament, the leaders, the grand-champion situation, the season's progress, the next event. Everything below adds depth without losing the thread.
This is the first edition. The plan is to develop Hakkeyoi into a richer reference over time — adding, among other things:
The structure of the site is laid out with that expansion in mind.
The dashboard fetches the current basho's leaderboard, the day-of-tournament, the yokozuna status and the champions list directly from public sumo data on every page load. The 2026 calendar, the "what to watch next" tile and the season-progress pips all update themselves as the year unfolds. Per-rikishi, per-stable and per-kimarite pages refresh whenever the build script is re-run; the reference data behind them (career stats, signature techniques, stablemates) updates after each basho.
Figures are cross-checked across multiple independent sumo sources. Per-rikishi biographical paragraphs are extracted verbatim from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) rather than paraphrased, so no AI hallucination sneaks in. Where the upstream APIs disagree — for example on a wrestler's stable, or on a kimarite count between endpoints — the most consistently corroborated version is used and edge cases are flagged in plain language rather than papered over.
For current results, rankings and the official calendar, the primary references are:
Tournament reporting and standings were also drawn from independent sumo outlets including Tachiai, Sumo-Stomp, Combat Press, SumoStats, SumoSchedule and SumoSumoSumo.
Rikishi portrait photographs and the per-wrestler profile data (real name, signature maneuver, promotion arc, highest rank) are scraped from sumo.or.jp's English profile pages; a small number of fallback photos come from Wikimedia Commons. Per-rikishi biographical paragraphs are extracted verbatim from the English Wikipedia article when one exists, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Links point to third-party sites; Hakkeyoi does not control their content. For the definitive live result of any tournament in progress, always check the Japan Sumo Association directly.
Hakkeyoi is an independent, fan-made reference. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Japan Sumo Association or any stable, wrestler or broadcaster. All trademarks and names belong to their respective owners. Japanese terms are romanised for an English-reading audience; macrons (ō, ū) are used where helpful and dropped where common usage omits them.