Tochinoumi Teruyoshi

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栃ノ海晃嘉
Tochinoumi Teruyoshi
Personal information

Birth name	Shigehiro Hanada
Date of birth	March 13, 1938 (1938-03-13) (age 70)
Place of birth	Aomori, Japan
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	110 kg (240 lb)
Career*
Heya	Kasugano
Record	475-261-104
Debut	September, 1955
Highest rank	Yokozuna (January, 1964)
Retired	November, 1966
Yusho	3 (Makuuchi) 1 (Juryo) 1 (Makushita)
Special Prizes	Fighting Spirit (1) Technique (6)
Gold stars	1
* Career information is correct as of July 2007.

Tochinoumi Teruyoshi (栃ノ海晃嘉, born March 13, 1938) is a former sumo wrestler from Aomori, Japan. He was the sport's 49th Yokozuna.

1 Career
2 Retirement from sumo
3 Top division record
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Career

Born in Inakdate, Minamitsugaru District, he made his professional debut in September 1955. He joined Kasugano stable, a prestigious heya that had previously produced yokozuna Tochigiyama and Tochinishiki. He initially fought under his own surname, Hanada. After about three years in the lower ranks he reached the second juryo division in January 1959 and was promoted to the top makuuchi division in March 1960. After two make-koshi or losing scores he was demoted to juryo but immediately won the second division championship with a 14-1 record and was promoted back. He then adopted the shikona Tochinoumi. He captured his first top division tournament championship in May 1962 at sekiwake rank and was promoted to ozeki. After his second championship in November 1963 and a 13-2 record in January 1964, he was promoted to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. He was only able to win one further championship, in May 1964, and achieved only three double figure scores after that. After an injury plagued 1966 he retired at the end of the year at the age of 28.

He was somewhat overshadowed by his yokozuna contemporaries Taihō and Kashiwado, but he was a noted technician and earlier in his career won six special prizes for Technique. He was one of the lightest yokozuna ever at just 110 kg.

[edit] Retirement from sumo

Tochinoumi stayed in the sumo world as an elder of the Sumo Association, under the name Nakadachi. Somewhat unusually for an ex yokozuna, he did not immediately take charge of a stable, instead working as an assistant coach. However, in January 1990 he did become head coach of Kasugano stable after the death of the previous stablemaster, the former Tochinishiki.^[1] He stood down in 2003, handing control of the stable over to former sekiwake Tochinowaka.

His first marriage ended in divorce. His second wife was, like his first, from the world of show business as she was a former member of the Takarazuka Revue troupe.^[1]

[edit] Top division record

Tochinoumi Teruyoshi^[2]
	January Hatsu basho, Tokyo	March Haru basho, Osaka	May Natsu basho, Tokyo	July Nagoya basho, Nagoya	September Aki basho, Tokyo	November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1960	x	West Maegashira #15 7–8	East Maegashira #17 5–10	(Jūryō)	East Maegashira #14 10–5	East Maegashira #8 11–4 T
1961	Sat out due to injury	East Maegashira #11 9–6	East Maegashira #5 10–5 T★	East Komusubi 11–4 T	East Sekiwake 8–7	East Sekiwake 9–6 T
1962	East Sekiwake 9–6 T	West Sekiwake 9–6	West Sekiwake 14–1 TF	East Ōzeki 9–6	East Ōzeki 10–5	West Ōzeki 9–6
1963	East Ōzeki 9–6	West Ōzeki 8–2–5	West Ōzeki 10–5	East Ōzeki 8–7	East Ōzeki 11–4	West Ōzeki 14–1
1964	East Ōzeki 13–2	East Yokozuna 10–5	East Yokozuna 13–2	East Yokozuna 11–4	East Yokozuna 9–6	West Yokozuna 0–3–12
1965	East Yokozuna 8–7	East Yokozuna 8–7	East Yokozuna 8–7	West Yokozuna 7–4–4	West Yokozuna 10–5	West Yokozuna 5–6–4
1966	Sat out due to injury	West Yokozuna 10–5	East Yokozuna 1–3–11	Sat out due to injury	Sat out due to injury	West Yokozuna 2–5–retired
Record given as win-loss-absent Championship Retired Demoted from makuuchi Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira