Tamagaki Gakunosuke

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Tamagaki Gakunosuke
Personal information
Birth name	Tanaka Kisaku
Date of birth	1784
Place of birth	Nagasaki, Japan
Date of death	August 29, 1824 (aged 40)
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	105 kg (230 lb)
Career*
Heya	Tamagaki
Record	119-27-62 13draws-1hold-14noresults (Makuuchi)
Debut	October 1806
Highest rank	Ozeki (November 1814)
Retired	January 1824
Yusho	4 (Makuuchi, unofficial)
* Career information is correct as of May 2008.

Tamagaki Gakunosuke IV (1784 - August 29, 1824) was Japanese sumo wrestler. His highest rank was Ozeki.

1 Career
2 Top division record
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Career

He made a professional debut in 1806 and was promoted to the top makuuchi division in 1810. In June 1823, Tamagaki and his rival Kashiwado Risuke were awarded yokozuna licences by the Gojo family. However, after Kashiwado rejected the licence, he also rejected this. In the next year, he died while being an active wrestler.

[edit] Top division record

*2 tournaments were held yearly in this period, though the actual time they were held was often erratic
*Championships from this period were unofficial
*There was no fusensho system until May 1927
*All top division wrestlers were usually absent on the 10th day until 1909

	First	Second
1810	x	West Maegashira #6 (6-2-1-1noresult)
1811	West Maegashira #6 (5-3-2noresults)	West Maegashira #5 (3-1-2-4draws)
1812	West Maegashira #5 (4-0-1draw)	West Maegashira #4 (6-2-2draws)
1813	West Maegashira #1 (5-1-2-2draws)	West Komusubi (3-1-3-3draws)
1814	Sat out	West Ōzeki (7-1-1-1hold)
1815	Unenrolled	Sat out
1816	West Ōzeki (5-2-1noresult)	West Ōzeki (7-0-1-1draw-1noresult)
1817	West Ōzeki (5-2-3)	West Ōzeki (6-2-2)
1818	West Ōzeki (7-0-2-1noresult)	West Ōzeki (6-1-2-1noresult)
1819	West Ōzeki (5-1-3-1noresult)	West Ōzeki (3-0-6-1noresult)
1820	West Ōzeki (5-1)	West Ōzeki (7-1-1-1noresult)
1821	West Ōzeki (6-1-2-1noresult)	Unenrolled
1822	Unenrolled	West Ōzeki (6-2-1-1noresult)
1823	West Ōzeki (3-1-2-1noresult)	West Ōzeki (4-2-3-1noresult)
1824	Sat out	x

The wrestler's East/West designation, rank, and win/loss record are listed for each tournament.^[1]
A third figure in win-loss records represents matches sat-out during the tournament
an X signifies the wrestler had yet to reach the top division at that point in his career or a tournament after he retired

Green Box=Tournament Championship