Maruyama Gondazaemon

丸山 権太左衛門 Maruyama Gondazaemon
Personal information
Born	芳賀 銀太夫 Haga Gindayu December 23, 1713(1713-12-23) Miyagi, Japan
Died	November 14, 1749(1749-11-14) (aged 35)
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	166 kg (370 lb)
Career
Heya	Nanatsumori
Debut	c. Genbun
Highest rank	Yokozuna (August 1749)
Retired	November, 1749
* Career information is correct as of September 2007.

Maruyama Gondazaemon (丸山 権太左衛門, December 23, 1713, Miyagi Prefecture – November 14, 1749) was a sumo wrestler. He is officially recognised as the third yokozuna (grand champion). His real name was Haga Gindayu (芳賀 銀太夫^?). He came from a village in the Sendai Domain (part of what is now Miyagi Prefecture).

Career

Gondazaemon went to Edo at the age of just 17, and was trained by Nanatsumori Oriemon (七ツ森折右衛門^?).^[1] His height was 197 cm and his weight was 166 kg. He left Edo to fight in Osaka sumo. In Osaka, he debuted at west ozeki in 1737. It is said that he lost only two bouts in his career.

He is considered to have been a strong wrestler but it has not been proven that he was awarded a yokozuna license. In honor of him, the house of Yoshida Tsukasa allowed him to be their disciple from August 1749 but this did not confer him the status of yokozuna. However, there are tales told that he wore a black-and-white rope. Though it was not a traditional shimenawa, Masahiko Nomi conjectured that it may have been related to the shimenawa.

Gondazaemon died in Nagasaki while an active sumo wrestler on November 14, 1749 possibly from dysentery. His grave lies in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture. A statue of him stands in Yoneyama, Tome, Miyagi Prefecture.^[2]

See also

• Glossary of sumo terms
• List of yokozuna
• List of past sumo wrestlers

References

1. ^ "「第三代横綱 丸山権太左衛門 銅像」" (in Japanese) (PDF). Tome, Miyagi. http://www.city.tome.miyagi.jp/yoneyama/documents/4527.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 
2. ^ "歴史探訪" (in Japanese). Tome, Miyagi. Archived from the original on 2008-02-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20080202101839/http://www.city.tome.miyagi.jp/shou-kan/miru-asobu-rekishi.html. Retrieved 2008-03-08. 

External links

• Brief biography

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Yokozuna is not a successive rank, and more than one wrestler can share the title

Persondata
Name	Gondazaemon, Maruyama
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	December 23, 1713
Place of birth	Miyagi, Japan
Date of death	November 14, 1749
Place of death

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