秋場所（aki basho）： Fall grand sumo tournament

Today kugatu basho (9月場所), September grand sumo tournament began. This tournament is also called aki basho (秋場所), Fall grand sumo tournament. It is held in Ryogoku kokugikan (両国国技館), Tokyo from Sep. 13 to 27.
Both Yokozuna (横綱) Asashoryu (朝青龍)and Hakuho (白鵬)won today. For Hakuho's match there were 40 prize money which was the most in the first day in the history. Each prize money is yen 60,000. After subtracting the necessary expenses, he got yen 1,200,000.
The most prize money was 51 at the match of Asashoryu vs Hakuho at September 2006. The most prize money in the grand sumo tournament was 1,021 at September 2006.