Tamanoumi Daitaro
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| Personal information | ||
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| Birth name | Tomohiro Miura | |
| Date of birth | January 2, 1923 | |
| Place of birth | Kōchi, Japan | |
| Date of death | September 27, 1987 (aged 64) | |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in) | |
| Weight | 120 kg (260 lb) | |
| Career* | ||
| Heya | Nishonoseki | |
| Record | 390-325-36 | |
| Debut | May, 1937 | |
| Highest rank | Sekiwake (January 1957) | |
| Retired | January, 1961 | |
| Yusho | 1 (Makuuchi) 1 (Jonokuchi) |
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| Special Prizes | Outstanding Performance (2) Fighting Spirit (3) |
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| Gold stars | 9 | |
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* Career information is correct as of June 2008. |
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Tamanoumi Daitaro, real name Tomohiro Miura, (2 January 1923 - 27 September 1987) was a sumo wrestler from Kochi, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He won a top division tournament championship in 1957. He was later the head coach of Kataonami stable.
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[edit] Career
He made his professional debut at the age of 14 in May 1937, joining Nishonoseki stable and using the shikona of Fukusumi. However, in 1940, he got into an argument with a driver. Military police went to the site and he also began to fight with them. Police officer attempted to shoot him. Ōzeki Haguroyama (later yokozuna) apologized to them. He survived, but was forced to leave sumo once. He returned to sumo in 1950. He was allowed to resume his career in the third makushita division where he had left off, and made the juryo division in 1951, adopting the Tamanoumi name, and the top makuuchi division the year after, when he was already 29 years old.
Tamanoumi reached his highest rank of sekiwake in 1957 but then was forced to sit out a couple of tournaments through injury. He fell to the maegashira ranks but came back to win the top division tournament championship in November 1957 (the first time the Kyushu honbasho had been staged) with a perfect 15-0 score. During this tournament he wore a gold coloured mawashi, the first wrestler to flout the Japan Sumo Association's rule that only dark colours should be worn. Because other wrestlers regarded it as a symbol of good luck, and also because NHK began colour broadcasts of sumo matches in 1960, many others have followed Tamanoumi's lead and worn brightly coloured mawashi.[1] He was runner-up in two other tournaments and earned nine kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna.
[edit] Retirement from sumo
He retired in May 1961 at the age of 38, and opened up the Kataonami stable, which he ran until his death. The stable produced the yokozuna Tamanoumi Masahiro. In his later years he was also a somewhat controversial commentator for NHK's sumo coverage.[1]
[edit] Top division record
Note: The Osaka tournament resumed in 1953. The Kyushu tournament was first held in 1957, and the Nagoya tournament in 1958.
| January Hatsu basho, Tokyo |
March Haru basho, Osaka |
May Natsu basho, Tokyo |
July Nagoya basho, Nagoya |
September Aki basho, Tokyo |
November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka |
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| 1952 | x | x | x | x | East Maegashira #18 10–5 |
x |
| 1953 | East Maegashira #9 13–2 F |
West Maegashira #1 7–8 |
West Maegashira #2 5–7–3 ★ |
x | East Maegashira #4 8–7 |
x |
| 1954 | East Maegashira #3 7–8 |
East Maegashira #4 5–10 |
West Maegashira #6 6–6–3 |
x | West Maegashira #7 9–6 |
x |
| 1955 | East Maegashira #5 8–7 |
East Maegashira #4 7–8 ★ |
West Maegashira #4 6–9 |
x | West Maegashira #6 8–7 ★★ |
x |
| 1956 | West Maegashira #3 5–10 |
East Maegashira #6 10–5 |
East Maegashira #2 10–5 ★★ |
x | East Komusubi 9–6 O |
x |
| 1957 | West Sekiwake 11–4 F |
East Sekiwake 11–4 O |
East Sekiwake 0–6–9 |
x | Sat out due to injury | West Maegashira #14 15–0 F |
| 1958 | West Komusubi 5–10 |
East Maegashira #3 6–9 ★ |
West Maegashira #6 11–4 |
West Komusubi 6–9 |
East Maegashira #2 10–5 ★★ |
West Komusubi 8–7 |
| 1959 | West Sekiwake 9–6 |
West Sekiwake 4–9–2 |
East Maegashira #5 8–7 |
East Maegashira #2 4–11 |
West Maegashira #7 9–6 |
West Maegashira #1 12–3 |
| 1960 | West Komusubi 4–11 |
East Maegashira #5 3–12 |
West Maegashira #13 10–5 |
West Maegashira #5 4–11 |
East Maegashira #8 7–8 |
East Maegashira #9 6–9 |
| 1961 | East Maegashira #13 7–8 |
x | x | x | x | x |
| Record given as win-loss-absent Championship Retired Demoted from makuuchi Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Gould, Chris (April 2008). NSK meets NHK. Sumo Fan Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ Tamanoumi Daitaro Rikishi Information (English). Sumo Reference. Retrieved on 2008-06-14.
