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1909 to 1957

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The following tables list the champions before the introduction of the current tournament system. The system was less regularized between years, with a different number of tournaments held at different times and in different venues, and often with a changing number of bouts fought in each tournament.

January March May September November
Tokyo Osaka Tokyo Tokyo Kyushu
1957 Chiyonoyama (6) Asashio III (2) Annenyama Tochinishiki (6) Tamanoumi I (1)
New Year Spring Summer Autumn
Tokyo Osaka Tokyo Tokyo
1956 Kagamisato (3) Asashio III (1) Wakanohana I (1) Kagamisato (4)
1955 Chiyonoyama (4) Chiyonoyama (5) Tochinishiki (5) Kagamisato (2)
1954 Yoshibayama Mitsuneyama Tochinishiki (3) Tochinishiki (4)
1953 Kagamisato (1) Tochinishiki (2) Tokitsuyama Azumafuji (6)
Spring Summer Autumn
Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo
1952 Haguroyama (7) Azumafuji (5) Tochinishiki (1)
1951 Terukuni (2) Chiyonoyama (3) Azumafuji (4)
1950 Chiyonoyama (2) Azumafuji (3) Terukuni (1)
1949 Azumafuji (2) Masuiyama (2) Chiyonoyama (1)
1948 no tournament Azumafuji (1) Masuiyama (1)
1947 no tournament Haguroyama (5) Haguroyama (6)
1946 no tournament no tournament Haguroyama (4)
1945 no tournament Bishūyama Haguroyama (3)
1944 Saganohana Haguroyama (2) Maedayama
1943 Futabayama (11) Futabayama (12) no tournament
1942 Futabayama (9) Futabayama (10) no tournament
1941 Futabayama (8) Haguroyama (1) no tournament
1940 Futabayama (7) Akinoumi no tournament
1939 Dewaminato (1) Futabayama (6) no tournament
1938 Futabayama (4) Futabayama (5) no tournament
1937 Futabayama (2) Futabayama (3) no tournament
1936 Tamanishiki (9) Futabayama (1) no tournament
1935 Tamanishiki (7) Tamanishiki (8) no tournament
1934 Minanogawa (2) Shimizugawa (3) no tournament
1933 Asashio** (1) Tamanishiki (6) no tournament
Spring March Summer October
Tokyo varied Tokyo varied
1932 Shimizugawa (1) Okitsuumi Tamanishiki (5) Shimizugawa (2)
1931 Tamanishiki (3) Tamanishiki (4) Musashiyama Ayazakura
1930 Toyokuni (2) Tsunenohana (10) Yamanishiki Tamanishiki (2)
1929 Tamanishiki (1) Toyokuni (1) Tsunenohana (8) Tsunenohana* (9)
1928 Hitachiiwa Noshirogata Tsunenohana (7) Miyagiyama (2)
1927 Miyagiyama (1) Tsunenohana (4) Tsunenohana (5) Tsunenohana (6)

[1] *tournament held in September

Spring Summer
1926 Tsunenohana (3) Orochiyama
1925 Tochigiyama (9) Nishinoumi III (1)
1924 Tochigiyama (7) Tochigiyama (8)
1923 Tochigiyama (6) Tsunenohana (2)
1922 Tsurugahama Ōnishiki (5)
1921 Ōnishiki (4) Tsunenohana (1)
1920 Ōnishiki (2) Ōnishiki (3)
1919 Tochigiyama (4) Tochigiyama (5)
1918 Tochigiyama (2) Tochigiyama (3)
1917 Ōnishiki (1) Tochigiyama (1)
1916 Nishinoumi II (1) Tachiyama (9)
1915 Ōtori (2) Tachiyama (8)
1914 Tachiyama (7) Ryōgoku
1913 Ōtori (1) Tachiyama (6)
1912 Tachiyama (4) Tachiyama (5)
1911 Tachiyama (2) Tachiyama (3)
1910 Hitachiyama (1) Tachiyama (1)
1909 see below* Takamiyama I

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*A yūshō system giving the wrestler with the best tournament record a prize was introduced by the Mainichi newspaper in the second half of 1909, and this was officially integrated by the JSA in 1926. All tournaments predating the second tournament of 1909 did not recognize or award a championship. As a consequence of this, yokozuna Hitachiyama had seven pre-1909 mathematical "championship" equivalents that are uncounted here, and yokozuna Tachiyama had two.
**Asashio would later become Minanogawa Tōzō

  1. ^ "The Sumo Record Book". Nihon Sumo Kyokai. Archived from the original on 2007-05-24. Retrieved 2007-06-05.
  2. ^ "Sumo Reference Database". Sumo Reference Database. Retrieved 2011-07-20.