Kiyoshi Myobudani

Kiyoshi Myobudani
明武谷 保彦
Myōbudani Yasuhiko
Personal information
Born Myōbudani Kiyoshi
April 29, 1937 (1937-04-29) (age 74)
Akan, Hokkaido, Japan
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Weight 113 kg (250 lb; 17.8 st)
Career
Heya Miyagino
Record 624-580-6
Debut March 1954
Highest rank Sekiwake (November 1964)
Retired November 1969
Yūshō 1 (Jonidan)
Sanshō Outstanding Performance (4)
Fighting Spirit (4)
Kinboshi 3 (Taiho (2), Sadanoyama (1))
* Career information is correct as of August 2009.

Kiyoshi Myobudani (明歩谷 清 Myōbudani Kiyoshi?, born 29 April 1937) is a former sumo wrestler from Akan, Hokkaido, Japan. He made his professional debut in March 1954. He was a member of Miyagino stable. His highest rank was sekiwake and he twice took part in playoffs for the top makuuchi division tournament championship or yusho. The first was an unusual three-way playoff in September 1961 (against Kashiwado and Taiho, with Taiho emerging as the winner) and the other was against Kashiwado in September 1965. He was also a runner-up in two other tournaments. He earned eight sansho or special prizes for his achievements in tournaments, four for Outstanding Performance and four for Fighting Spirit. He also earned three kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna. For most of his career his fighting name was his own surname, although he did briefly use the shikona of Yoshibanada in 1963 (his stablemaster, Miyagino Oyakata, was the 43rd Yokozuna Yoshibayama). He retired in November 1969, and became a toshiyori or elder of the Japan Sumo Association, under the name Nakamura. He left the Sumo Association in 1977.

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