- Ōnishiki Uichirō
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大錦 卯一郎
Ōnishiki Uichirō
Personal information Born Uichiro Hosokawa
November 25, 1891
Osaka, JapanDied May 13, 1941 (aged 49) Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Weight 139 kg (310 lb) Career Heya Dewanoumi Record 119-16-32-3draws (Makuuchi) Debut January, 1910 Highest rank Yokozuna (May, 1917) Retired January, 1923 Yūshō 5 (Makuuchi)
1 (Juryo)
1 (Jonidan)* Career information is correct as of September 2007. Ōnishiki Uichirō (大錦 卯一郎, November 25, 1891 – May 13, 1941) was a sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 26th Yokozuna. On November 2, 1922, he became the first yokozuna to perform Yokozuna Dohyo-iri at the Meiji Shrine.[1]
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Career
Born in Osaka, he trained under former yokozuna Hitachiyama Taniemon, joining his Dewanoumi stable.[2] He was promoted to the top makuuchi division in January 1915. After finishing the May 1915 tournament with a 9-1 record at the komusubi rank, he was promoted to ozeki. He won his first championship with a perfect 10-0 record in the January 1917 tournament and was promoted to yokozuna. He reached the top yokozuna rank after only 5 tournaments, which is the all-time record.
He lost only 16 bouts in his entire career. He won five top division tournament championships and was runner-up in four others. He was very smart in comparison with most sumo wrestlers of his era, and so he was very strong and recorded the high winning percentage of 88.1. He also recorded only three draws.
However, his career suddenly ended. In January 1923, sumo wrestlers went on strike against the Tokyo Sumo Association. The walkout is called Mikawajima-Incident (三河島事件, Mikawajima-Jiken). Ōnishiki attempted to mediate, but failed.[3] After police intervention, the striking wrestlers achieved their demands of better retirement pay. Because he felt responsibility for the incident, he retired from being an active sumo wrestler and left the sumo world. He was critical about tradition in the sumo world.
After his retirement, he entered Waseda University. After the graduation, he worked in Hochi Shimbun as a sumo essayist.
Top division record
January May 1915 East Maegashira #12 (8-2-1) East Komusubi (9-1) 1916 East Ōzeki (8-2) East Ōzeki (7-3) 1917 West Ōzeki (10-0) West Yokozuna (9-1) 1918 East Yokozuna (8-1-1) Sat out due to injury 1919 East Yokozuna (8-2) East Yokozuna (8-2) 1920 East Yokozuna (8-1-1draw) West Yokozuna (9-1) 1921 West Yokozuna (10-0) East Yokozuna (9-0-1draw) 1922 Sat out due to injury West Yokozuna (8-1-1draw) 1923 retired x - The wrestler's East/West designation, rank, and win/loss record are listed for each tournament.[4]
- A third figure in win-loss records represents matches sat-out during the tournament (usually due to injury)
Green Box=Tournament Championship See also
References
- ^ "手数入り（横綱土俵入り）いつから始まったのですか？" (in Japanese). Meiji Shrine. http://www.meijijingu.or.jp/qa/jingu/17.html. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
- ^ Journal of Combative Sport: Sumo by Tittle
- ^ Newton, Clyde (1994). Dynamic Sumo. Kodansha. pp. 58. ISBN 4-7700-1802-9.
- ^ "Onishiki Uichiro". Sumo Reference. http://sumodb.sumogames.com/Rikishi.aspx?r=3645. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
- previous:
- Nishinoumi Kajirō II
- 26th Yokozuna
- 1917 - 1923
- next:
- Tochigiyama Moriya
Yokozuna is not a successive rank, and more than one wrestler can share the title Categories:- 1891 births
- 1941 deaths
- Japanese sumo wrestlers
- Yokozuna
- Sportspeople from Osaka (city)
- Waseda University alumni
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