On sumo's list of all-time yusho winners, Hakuho currently stands tied with Kitanoumi on 24 championships to date. Just three men stand between the Mongolian and the all-time record: Asashoryu at 25, Chiyonofuji at 31 and Taiho at 32.
Many modern-day sumo fans never saw the recently deceased Taiho, for many the greatest yokozuna ever, and winner of 32 tournaments over the course of his 1956-1971 career.
Fewer still have any memory of Futabayama, active between 1927 and 1945 (d. 1968) and himself winner of 12 yusho, albeit in an era of just two, sometimes three tournaments a year.