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Tosanoumi Toshio
Personal information
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight160 kg (350 lb)
Career
StableIsenoumi
Current rankMaegashira 15
Record664-638-16
DebutMarch 1994
Highest rankSekiwake (May 1997)
Championships2 (Jūryō)
1 (Makushita)
Special PrizesOutstanding Performance (7)
Fighting Spirit (5)
Technique (1)
Gold Stars11
* Up to date as of Mar 2009.

Tosanoumi Toshio (born February 16, 1972 as Toshio Yamamoto in Aki City, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan), is a sumo wrestler. He has been ranked in the top division of professional sumo since 1995, second only to Kaio among active wrestlers. He has won 13 special prizes and earned 11 gold stars for defeating yokozuna over his long career. The highest rank he has reached is sekiwake. He is a member of Isenoumi stable.

Career

After success in amateur sumo competitions while at Doshisha University, Yamamoto was recruited by former sekiwake Fujinokawa and joined Isenoumi stable. He was given the shikona of Tosanoumi, meaning "sea of Tosa", from his native Kōchi Prefecture. Because of his amateur achievements he had makushita tsukedashi status and entered professional sumo in the third, makushita division in March 1994. He entered jūryō four tournaments later. Another four tournaments later he was promoted to the highest, makuuchi division. Because he had won the yūshō or tournament championship with 14 wins from the rank of Jūryō 1, he entered at maegashira 7, the second highest ever rank at which to enter the top division. For his first makuuchi bouts he was drawn against some tough opponents; first ōzeki Wakanohana, followed by yokozuna Takanohana the second day. He lost both bouts, and would finish the tournament 7-8.

Recovering from this, his first ever make-koshi, Tosanoumi continued to rise through the ranks, reaching komusubi in January 1996 and sekiwake in May 1997. His best result in a tournament came in November 1998, when he finished as runner-up to Kotonishiki with 12 wins. Although he has never risen higher than sekiwake, he has held the rank for seven tournaments in total, the last being in May 2005. He has also been ranked at komusubi on thirteen occasions, for a total of twenty tournaments in the sanyaku ranks. He remained in makuuchi continuously from July 1995 until January 2006, when a 5-10 result at maegashira 14 resulted in demotion to jūryō. He reappeared in makuuchi just two tournaments later in May 2006, but remained at the bottom of the division. He has fallen to jūryō on three more occasions since then, but each time has made an immediate return to the top division. He is currently the oldest man in makuuchi at 37 years.

Tosanoumi has won a total of thirteen prizes (equal to the 7th highest ever) and 11 gold stars (the 4th highest ever) in his long makuuchi career. He has defeated two yokozuna in the same tournament on four separate occasions. He has earned four gold stars from Takanohana, and three each from Wakanohana and Akebono. His last gold star to date came in 2003 when he beat Musashimaru, in what was the latter's last bout before retirement. In July 2007 he recorded his 600th career win, which came by default when his opponent withdrew.[1] Tosanoumi is eighth on the all-time list of most top division appearances, and equal ninth for most tournaments ranked in the top division. He will also likely be the oldest active sekitori after the 2009 Haru basho (Ōtsukasa Nobuhide will either be demoted to Makushita or retire).

Fighting style

Tosanoumi's fighting style is solidly oshi-sumo, using pushing and thrusting techniques as opposed to yotsu-sumo or grappling techniques.[1] He has attributed his relative lack of injuries during his career in part to this preference.[1] Over 30 percent of his wins in sumo have been oshi-dashi, a simple push out.[2]

Family

Tosanoumi announced in September 2008 that he would be getting married. The wedding reception and ceremony were held in January 2009.

Top division record

Tosanoumi Toshio [3]
Year January
Hatsu basho, Tokyo		 March
Haru basho, Osaka		 May
Natsu basho, Tokyo		 July
Nagoya basho, Nagoya		 September
Aki basho, Tokyo		 November
Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1995 x x x West Maegashira #7
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #8
11–4
F		 West Maegashira #1
9–6
OT★★
1996 East Komusubi
8–7
 		 East Komusubi
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #1
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #5
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #6
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #1
8–7
O
1997 East Maegashira #1
9–6
O★★		 East Komusubi
8–7
 		 West Sekiwake
10–5
F		 East Sekiwake
8–7
 		 East Sekiwake
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #1
7–8
 
1998 East Maegashira #3
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #6
10–5
F		 West Maegashira #2
4–11
 		 East Maegashira #7
7–7–1
 
Sat out due to injury
0–0–15		 East Maegashira #9
12–3
F★
1999 West Maegashira #1
7–8
★		 East Maegashira #2
8–7
★★		 East Maegashira #1
8–7
O★★		 East Komusubi
11–4
F		 West Sekiwake
7–8
 		 West Komusubi
10–5
O
2000 East Komusubi
8–7
 		 East Komusubi
8–7
 		 East Komusubi
9–6
 		 East Komusubi
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #1
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #4
7–8
 
2001 East Maegashira #2
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #6
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #8
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #2
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #1
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #4
7–8
 
2002 East Maegashira #7
9–6
 		 West Maegashira #1
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #2
8–7
 		 West Komusubi
10–5
O		 West Sekiwake
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #1
8–7
 
2003 East Maegashira #1
8–7
 		 West Komusubi
8–7
 		 East Komusubi
4–11
 		 East Maegashira #5
10–5
 		 West Komusubi
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #2
10–5
O★
2004 East Sekiwake
4–11
 		 West Maegashira #4
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #9
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #11
11–4
 		 West Maegashira #4
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #6
9–6
 
2005 West Maegashira #2
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #3
10–5
 		 West Sekiwake
4–11
 		 East Maegashira #4
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #8
6–9
 		 East Maegashira #11
5–10
 
2006 East Maegashira #14
5–10
 		 (Juryo) West Maegashira #12
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #9
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #12
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #12
5–10
 
2007 East Maegashira #16
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #14
6–9
 		 (Juryo) West Maegashira #13
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #8
6–9
 		 East Maegashira #11
7–8
 
2008 West Maegashira #12
5–10
 		 (Juryo) East Maegashira #12
6–9
 		 East Maegashira #14
5–10
 		 (Juryo) East Maegashira #16
9–6
 
2009 East Maegashira #9
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #15
–
 		 x x x x
Record given as wins–losses–absences    Top division champion Top division runner-up Retired Lower divisions Non-participation

Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: ★=Kinboshi; P=Playoff(s)
Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi

Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

References

  1. ^ a b c "A Conversation With Tosanoumi". Le Monde du Sumo. August 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
  2. ^ "Tosanoumi bouts by kimarite". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Rikishi in Juryo and Makunouchi". szumo.hu. Retrieved 2007-07-23.

See also

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