Credits & licensing

Data sources

• sumo-api.com — banzuke, basho results, kimarite per match.
• sumodb — historical fallback when sumo-api is unavailable.
• Japan Sumo Association — official banzuke reference.

Photos

All wrestler photographs are sourced from Wikipedia Commons under Creative Commons licenses. Each photo on this site links to its Commons page, where the original author and license terms are listed. If you spot a missing attribution or believe a photo has been used outside its license, please email [email protected] .

AI-generated content

Narrative text (career summaries, style descriptions, basho highlights) is generated by Anthropic's Claude language model at build time. The pipeline reads only structured facts from the sources above; the model is instructed not to invent or speculate. Each profile lists the model version and prompt version used in its footer.

See how it's built for the full data flow.