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Azumafuji Kin'ichi

Azumafuji Kin'ichi was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Taitō, Tokyo. He was the sport's 40th yokozuna, and later a professional wrestler.

Chiyotairyū HidemasaW
Chiyotairyū Hidemasa

Chiyotairyū Hidemasa is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokyo. A former amateur champion at university, he made his professional debut in May 2011, as a makushita tsukedashi recruit and reached the top division in May 2012. He earned his first gold star or kinboshi by defeating yokozuna Harumafuji in the March 2013 tournament. His highest rank has been komusubi. He has one special prize, for Technique. He wrestles for Kokonoe stable.

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Daidō Kenji

Daidō Kenji is a former professional sumo wrestler (rikishi) from Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. He made his debut in 2005, reaching the top division six years later, debuting in the July, 2011 tournament. His highest rank was maegashira #8. He is now a sumo coach.

Dewanishiki TadaoW
Dewanishiki Tadao

Dewanishiki Tadao was a sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He won ten kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna during his long top division career, which only four wrestlers have bettered. He also won four special prizes. After his retirement he was a coach at Dewanoumi stable.

Fujiazuma KazuyoshiW
Fujiazuma Kazuyoshi

Fujiazuma Kazuyoshi is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokyo. He entered sumo in March 2003, reaching the top makuuchi division in July 2011. His highest rank to date has been maegashira 4, which he achieved in July 2013 after he put together five straight kachi-koshi or winning records in the top division. However, he was ranked in makushita, the third division, from May 2017 until July 2020. He wrestles for Tamanoi stable.

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Hanakaze Daisaku

Hanakaze Daisaku is a retired Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokyo. He made his debut in March, 1986 and wrestled for Tatsunami stable. Despite never rising higher than the fourth division (sandanme), he has set several records for longevity in the sport. He competed in a total of 214 tournaments, and was the last wrestler who began his career in the Shōwa era to retire. Consequently, he is the only wrestler to fight in the Shōwa, Heisei and Reiwa eras. He is also one of very few in sumo's long history who wrestled into his sixth decade.

Hidenoumi TakuyaW
Hidenoumi Takuya

Hidenoumi Takuya is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler for Kise stable. A former amateur sumo competitor at Nihon University, he made his professional debut in 2012 and was promoted to the top makuuchi division in July 2015. His highest rank to date is maegashira 6. He has one jūryō division yūshō or championship. He is the elder brother of Oitekaze stable wrestler Tobizaru.

Hitachiiwa EitarōW
Hitachiiwa Eitarō

Hitachiiwa Eitarō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokyo. His highest rank was ōzeki.

Iwakaze KakutaroW
Iwakaze Kakutaro

Iwakaze Kakutaro was a sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. He made his professional debut in May 1952 and reached the top division in May 1956. His highest rank was sekiwake. He retired from active competition in September 1965.

Jōkōryū TakayukiW
Jōkōryū Takayuki

Jōkōryū Takayuki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He made his professional debut in 2011 after a successful college career in sumo. He currently holds the record for the most consecutive wins since entering professional sumo, and for the fastest rise to the top makuuchi division from the lowest jonokuchi division. His highest rank has been komusubi, which he reached in September 2014. However, because of injuries he has fallen down the rankings, reaching a low of sandanme 23 in November 2016.

Kimikaze ToshijiW
Kimikaze Toshiji

Kimikaze Toshiji is a former professional sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. His highest rank was maegashira 13. He won the jūryō championship in March 2012.

Kitataiki AkeyoshiW
Kitataiki Akeyoshi

Kitataiki Akeyoshi is a former professional sumo wrestler from Machida City, Tokyo, Japan. Making his debut in March 1998, he reached the top division for the first time in September 2008, returning in January 2010. He won two second division jūryō championships in his career. His highest rank was maegashira 2. He retired in January 2018 and became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Onogawa.

Kurosegawa KuniyukiW
Kurosegawa Kuniyuki

Kurosegawa Kuniyuki is a former sumo wrestler from Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan. He made his professional debut in January 1966, and reached the top division in May 1978. His highest rank was komusubi. He retired in May 1984 and became an elder in the Japan Sumo Association under the name Kiriyama. In 1995 he branched out from Isegahama stable and established his own Kiriyama stable, which shut down in 2011. He reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 in May 2016, but was re-hired by the Sumo Association for five years as a consultant. In September 2016 he was re-appointed as a judge of tournament bouts, following the demotion of Kasugayama. He left the Sumo Association upon turning 70 in May 2021.

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Mitsuneyama Keiji

Mitsuneyama Keiji, real name Tōichi Shimamura was a sumo wrestler from Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan who won the top division yūshō or tournament championship in 1954. His highest rank was ōzeki and he earned nine kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna when ranked as a maegashira, and seven special prizes. After his retirement in 1960 he was the head coach of Takashima stable.

Ōhō KōnosukeW
Ōhō Kōnosuke

Ōhō Kōnosuke is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kōtō, Tokyo. Wrestling for Ōtake stable, he made his professional debut in January 2018. He reached the second-highest jūryō division in January 2021 and entered the makuuchi ranks the following year. His highest rank has been maegashira 18. He is the son of former sekiwake Takatōriki and the grandson of 48th yokozuna Taihō.

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Takanohana Kōji

Takanohana Kōji is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler and coach. He was the 65th man in history to reach sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, and he won 22 tournament championships between 1992 and 2001, the sixth highest total ever. The son of a popular ōzeki ranked wrestler from the 1970s, Takanohana's rise through the ranks alongside his elder brother Wakanohana and his rivalry with the foreign born yokozuna Akebono saw interest in sumo and attendance at tournaments soar during the early 1990s.

Tamarikidō HidekiW
Tamarikidō Hideki

Tamarikidō Hideki is a former sumo wrestler born in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan. Though born in Japan, he is a Zainichi Korean and a member of Mindan. His highest rank was maegashira 8. A former amateur champion, he turned professional in 1997, reaching the top makuuchi division in 2001. He had many injury problems throughout his career, missing over 100 matches, and last fought in makuuchi in 2003. He announced his retirement in January 2010.

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Tobizaru Masaya

Tobizaru Masaya is a professional sumo wrestler from Japan and wrestles for Oitekaze stable. He made his top division debut in September 2020.

Tochiazuma DaisukeW
Tochiazuma Daisuke

Tochiazuma Daisuke is a retired sumo wrestler. He began his professional career in 1994, reaching the top division just two years later after winning a tournament championship in each of the lower divisions. After winning twelve special prizes and four gold stars, he reached his highest rank of ōzeki in 2002 and won three top division tournament championships before retiring because of health reasons in 2007 at the age of 30. In 2009 he became the head coach of Tamanoi stable.

Tochinishiki KiyotakaW
Tochinishiki Kiyotaka

Tochinishiki Kiyotaka was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokyo. He was the sport's 44th yokozuna. He won ten top division yūshō or tournament championships and was a rival of fellow yokozuna Wakanohana I. He became the head coach of Kasugano stable in 1959 and was head of the Japan Sumo Association from 1974 until 1988.

Tochisakae AtsushiW
Tochisakae Atsushi

Tochisakae Atsushi is a former sumo wrestler from Saga Prefecture, Japan. He made his professional debut in 1993, reaching the top division for the first time in 2000. His highest rank was maegashira 1. He suffered many illness and injury problems throughout his career. He retired in 2008 and is now an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Mihogaseki, working as a coach at Kasugano stable.

Towanoyama YoshimitsuW
Towanoyama Yoshimitsu

Towanoyama Yoshimitsu is a former sumo wrestler from Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. He made his professional debut in 1993. His highest rank was maegashira 13, achieved in March 2002. He had many injury problems and had perhaps the unluckiest top makuuchi division career of any wrestler in sumo, being injured before even fighting a match in the division. He is the only wrestler since the beginning of the Shōwa era in 1926 to have been ranked in the top division without winning any bouts there.

Tsurugishō MomotarōW
Tsurugishō Momotarō

Tsurugishō Momotarō is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Katsushika, Tokyo. He is a graduate of Nihon University. His highest rank has been maegashira 7. He won a Fighting Spirit Prize in his debut tournament in the top makuuchi division in September 2019. He is a member of the Oitekaze stable.

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Wakanohana Masaru

Masaru Hanada is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana Masaru , and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Kōji saw a boom in sumo's popularity in the early 1990s. He is the elder son of the former ōzeki Takanohana Kenshi, who was also his stablemaster, and the nephew of Wakanohana Kanji I, a famous yokozuna of the 1950s. Wakanohana was a long serving ōzeki who won five tournament championships, and eventually joined his brother at yokozuna rank in 1998, creating the first ever sibling grand champions. After a brief and injury plagued yokozuna career he retired in 2000, becoming a television personality and restaurant owner. The death of his father in 2005 saw a very public falling out with his brother.

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Tadao Yasuda

Tadao Yasuda is a Japanese retired sumo wrestler (rikishi), professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He competed in sumo from 1979 to 1992 under the shikona of Takanofuji Tadao, achieving the rank of komusubi, and afterwards turned to professional wrestling, in which he competed from 1994 to 2011, most notably in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion. He was also fought in mixed martial arts from 2001 to 2003, holding a notable win over Jérôme Le Banner.