- Masuiyama Daishirō II
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増位山 太志郎
Masuiyama Daishirō
Personal information Born Noburu Sawada
November 16, 1948
Himeji, Hyōgo, JapanHeight 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Weight 109 kg (240 lb) Career Heya Mihogaseki Record 597-538-15 Debut January, 1967 Highest rank Ozeki (March, 1980) Retired March, 1981 Yūshō 1 (Jūryō) Sanshō Technique (5) Kinboshi 4 * Career information is correct as of July 2007. Masuiyama Daishirō (born 16 November 1948 as Noboru Sawada) is a former sumo wrestler from Hyōgo, Japan. In 1980 he became the oldest man to be promoted to the rank of ozeki in the modern era (since 1958). He is now a sumo coach and an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Mihogaseki.
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Career
Born in Himeji, he was the son of former ozeki Masuiyama Daishirō I. He was a talented swimmer at school but wanted to follow his father into sumo. Initially turned down because of his size, he eventually persuaded his father to let him join his Mihogaseki stable in January 1967. He began at the same time as Kitanoumi, a future yokozuna. He began fighting under the name Suiryu, adopting the Masuiyama shikona the following year. He reached sekitori status in July 1969 upon promotion to the jūryō division and reached the top makuuchi division for the first time in March 1970. Weighing barely 100 kg, and prone to injury, he was not able to establish himself in the division until 1972, temporarily dropping back to jūryō where he won his only yusho or tournament championship in January of that year. In November 1972 he won the first of his five Ginosho or Technique prizes and earned promotion to komusubi. He was demoted after only one tournament and mostly remained in the maegashira ranks for the next few years. In May 1974 he scored 12 wins and was a tournament runner-up behind stablemate Kitanoumi.
In July 1978 he finally earned promotion to the third highest sekiwake rank, but once again was unable to maintain it, dropping back to maegashira level. At the end of 1979 he returned to sekiwake and scored 11 wins. In January 1980 he was again a tournament runner-up, this time to yokozuna Mienoumi, and after the tournament he was promoted to ozeki. It had taken him 60 tournaments to get there from his top division debut, a record, and at thirty one years two months he was also the oldest to reach the rank since the introduction of the six tournaments a year system in 1958 (The latter record was broken by Kotomitsuki in July 2007). Masuiyama and Mihogaseki Oyakata became the first father and son ozeki in sumo history.[1] His ozeki career was brief, and he announced his retirement during the March 1981 tournament.
Retirement from sumo
Masuiyama remained in the sumo world as an elder initially under the name Onogawa, and in November 1984 he succeeded his father as head coach of Mihogaseki stable, when the latter reached the retirement age of 65. His father died in 1986. He inherited ozeki Hokutenyu, and has produced four other top division wrestlers: Higonoumi, Hamanoshima, Baruto and Aran. Now known as Mihogaseki Oyakata, he continues to run the stable and is also on the board of directors of the Japan Sumo Association.
Top division record
Masuiyama Daishiro[2]
year in sumo January
Hatsu basho, TokyoMarch
Haru basho, OsakaMay
Natsu basho, TokyoJuly
Nagoya basho, NagoyaSeptember
Aki basho, TokyoNovember
Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka1970 x West Maegashira #11
7–8
(Juryo) West Maegashira #12
7–8
(Juryo) (Juryo) 1971 (Juryo) West Maegashira #11
9–6
West Maegashira #7
9–6
East Maegashira #2
3–11–1
East Maegashira #11
1–4–10
(Juryo) 1972 (Juryo) West Maegashira #13
6–9
(Juryo) (Juryo) East Maegashira #13
10–5
West Maegashira #4
9–6
T1973 West Komusubi
5–10
West Maegashira #3
5–10
East Maegashira #10
8–7
West Maegashira #7
10–5
East Maegashira #1
6–9
East Maegashira #5
8–7
1974 East Maegashira #2
5–10
★West Maegashira #7
8–7
East Maegashira #4
12–3
T★East Komusubi
8–7
East Komusubi
5–10
West Maegashira #4
6–9
1975 East Maegashira #6
9–6
East Maegashira #2
8–7
★East Maegashira #1
6–9
★West Maegashira #4
9–6
East Maegashira #1
6–9
East Maegashira #4
6–9
1976 East Maegashira #7
8–7
East Maegashira #5
8–7
East Maegashira #1
5–10
West Maegashira #5
5–10
East Maegashira #10
9–6
East Maegashira #4
6–9
1977 West Maegashira #7
10–5
East Komusubi
5–10
East Maegashira #5
8–7
East Maegashira #2
8–7
East Maegashira #1
5–10
East Maegashira #3
4–11
1978 West Maegashira #9
8–7
East Maegashira #6
9–6
East Maegashira #2
8–7
East Komusubi
8–7
East Sekiwake
8–7
East Sekiwake
6–9
1979 East Maegashira #1
6–9
West Maegashira #3
8–7
East Maegashira #1
6–9
East Maegashira #3
8–7
East Komusubi
8–7
TWest Sekiwake
11–4
T1980 East Sekiwake
12–3
TEast Ōzeki
3–5–7
West Ōzeki
8–7
West Ōzeki
9–6
West Ōzeki
9–6
West Ōzeki
3–12
1981 West Ōzeki
10–5
West Ōzeki
Retired
2–3–0x 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
- ^ Featured Heya - Mihogaseki and Minato, Sumo Forum
- ^ "Masuiyama Daishiro Rikishi Information". Sumo Reference. http://sumodb.sumogames.com/Rikishi.aspx?r=4068. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
Categories:- 1948 births
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- Japanese sumo wrestlers
- People from Himeji
- Ōzeki
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