- Oginishiki Yasutoshi
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小城錦康年
Oginishiki Yasutoshi
Personal information Born Yasutoshi Kowai
July 8, 1971
Chiba, JapanHeight 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Weight 138 kg (300 lb) Career Heya Dewanoumi Record 605-585-107 Debut March 1987 Highest rank Komusubi (July 1997) Retired January 2004 Yūshō 2 (Jūryō) Sanshō Fighting Spirit (1)
Outstanding Performance (1)
Technique (2)Kinboshi 2 * Career information is correct as of June 2008. Oginishiki Yasutoshi (born 8 July 1971 as Yasutoshi Koiwai) is a former sumo wrestler from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi. His father and brother were also sumo wrestlers. He is now a coach at Dewanoumi stable.
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Career
The son of former sekiwake Oginohana Masaaki, he joined Dewanoumi stable in March 1987, where his father worked as a coach, and four years after his elder brother Oginohana Akikazu had also joined the stable. The "Ogi" character in his shikona was taken from Ogi, Saga where his father was born. Initially wrestling under his own surname of Koiwai, he switched to Oginoshu in 1989 and then Oginishiki in 1990. He reached sekitori status in November 1991 upon promotion to the jūryō division and the top makuuchi division in May 1993, joining his brother who had first reached makuuchi in January 1990.
Oginishiki had a more successful top division career than his brother, who reached a highest rank of maegashira 2 and never managed to win a special prize or defeat a yokozuna. Oginishiki, by contrast, earned the Fighting Spirit award in only his third makuuchi tournament after a strong 11-4 record. Two tournaments later in March 1994 he defeated yokozuna Akebono and was awarded the Technique Prize. In November 1996 he defeated all three ozeki but could only score 6-9 overall. In May 1997, an 11-4 record at Maegashira 4 saw him pick up his second Technique award and earn promotion to sumo's fourth highest rank of komusubi. He could only manage four wins in his sanyaku debut however, and never managed to return to the rank. In May 1998 he defeated yokozuna Takanohana and tournament winner Wakanohana and won the Outstanding Performance award. At the end of 1999 he dropped back into the jūryō division but two consecutive yusho or tournament championships saw him return to the top division. He suffered a number of injury problems later in his career, and fell to jūryō once more.
After making his final top division appearance in March 2002, he fought until January 2004 before retiring on the 12th day with eight losses, facing certain demotion to makushita.
Retirement from sumo
Oginishiki has stayed in the sumo world as a coach at Dewanoumi stable, alongside his brother, and is now known as Nakadachi Oyakata.[1]
Top division record
Oginishiki Yasutoshi[2]
year in sumo January
Hatsu basho, TokyoMarch
Haru basho, OsakaMay
Natsu basho, TokyoJuly
Nagoya basho, NagoyaSeptember
Aki basho, TokyoNovember
Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka1993 x x East Maegashira #16
9–6
West Maegashira #10
4–11
(Juryo) East Maegashira #16
11–4
F1994 East Maegashira #5
7–8
East Maegashira #6
9–6
T★East Maegashira #1
7–8
West Maegashira #1
4–11
East Maegashira #8
5–10
East Maegashira #14
8–7
1995 West Maegashira #12
9–6
West Maegashira #5
3–12
West Maegashira #15
8–7
West Maegashira #14
9–6
East Maegashira #6
5–10
East Maegashira #13
8–7
1996 East Maegashira #12
8–7
West Maegashira #3
2–13
East Maegashira #13
8–7
West Maegashira #12
8–7
East Maegashira #11
9–6
East Maegashira #4
6–9
1997 East Maegashira #6
4–11
East Maegashira #15
11–4
West Maegashira #5
11–4
TEast Komusubi #1
4–11
Sat out due to injury
0–0–15East Maegashira #3
6–9
1998 East Maegashira #5
5–10
West Maegashira #8
9–6
West Maegashira #3
8–7
O★East Maegashira #1
2–9–4
Sat out due to injury
0–0–15West Maegashira #8
6–9
1999 East Maegashira #12
8–7
East Maegashira #11
7–8
East Maegashira #14
5–10
(Juryo) (Juryo) (Juryo) 2000 (Juryo) West Maegashira #9
8–7
East Maegashira #3
6–9
East Maegashira #4
7–8
East Maegashira #5
5–10
East Maegashira #8
7–8
2001 West Maegashira #10
0–2–13
(Juryo) (Juryo) West Maegashira #14
9–6
West Maegashira #10
8–7
East Maegashira #8
5–10
2002 East Maegashira #13
7–8
East Maegashira #14
4–11
(Juryo) (Juryo) (Juryo) (Juryo) 2003 (Juryo) (Juryo) (Juryo) (Juryo) (Juryo) (Juryo) 2004 West Jūryō #13
Retired
4–9–0x x x x x Record given as win-loss-absent Top Division Champion Retired Lower Divisions
Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi(s) P=Playoff(s)
Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira
Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — JonokuchiSee also
- Glossary of sumo terms
- List of sumo tournament second division winners
- List of past sumo wrestlers
References
- ^ "Sumo Beya Guide". Japan Sumo Association. 2008-04-24. http://sumo.goo.ne.jp/eng/ozumo_meikan/sumo_beya/heya.php?heya=47. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ "Rikishi in Juryo and Makunouchi". szumo.hu. http://www.szumo.hu/sekitori/Oginishiki.html. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
External links
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- Japanese sumo wrestlers
- People from Ichikawa, Chiba
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