| 小野川喜三郎 Onogawa Kisaburō |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | 川村 喜三郎 Kawamura Kisaburō 1758 Shiga, Japan |
| Died | April 30, 1806 (aged 48) |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 116 kg (260 lb) |
| Career | |
| Heya | Tamagaki |
| Record | 144-13-40 4draws-10holds-3no results (Makuuchi) |
| Debut | October, 1779 |
| Highest rank | Yokozuna (November, 1789) |
| Retired | October, 1798 |
| Yūshō | 7 (Makuuchi, unofficial) |
| * Career information is correct as of October 2007. | |
Onogawa Kisaburō (小野川喜三郎, 1758 – April 30, 1806) was a sumo wrestler from Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 5th Yokozuna. Along with Tanikaze he was the first to be given a yokozuna licence by the House of Yoshida Tsukasa and the first to perform the dohyō-iri to promote sumo tournaments.
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Onogawa was promoted to the top makuuchi division in March 1781. He defeated ozeki Tanikaze Kajinosuke in February 1782. The victory surprised people in Edo as it brought to an end Tanikaze's run of 63 consecutive victories. Onogawa became a rival of Tanikaze and was popular with the public, although in reality he was quite far behind his rival and won only seven tournament titles to Tanikaze's 21.[1] Onogawa was much shorter than Tanikaze at only 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) but he had a speedy, crowd pleasing sumo style which helped him overcome his small physique.[1]
Yoshida Oikaze certified both Onogawa and Tanikaze Kajinosuke as holders of the yokozuna rank in November 1789, in a ceremony which was also featured the introduction of the dohyō-iri display and the first appearance of the yokozuna's traditional ornaments: a thick girdle of white rope, supporting white paper gohei.[2] He won 144 bouts and lost only 13 bouts, achieving a winning percentage of 91.7. Onogawa retired in 1798 to become a coach in Osaka sumo, but the next yokozuna, Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, was not appointed for another thirty years.[3] Fortunately for sumo's popularity, during that time the immensely powerful wrestler Raiden emerged.[1]
A popular story holds that Onogawa studied jujutsu with renowned Kyushin Ryu Sōke Inugami Gunbei after being thrown down twice in a casual match with that master outside a teahouse.[4]
*1-2 tournaments were held yearly in this period, though the actual time they were held was often erratic
*Championships from this period were unofficial
*Yokozuna were not listed as such on the ranking sheets until 1890
*There was no fusensho system until March 1927
*All top division wrestlers were usually absent on the 10th day until 1909
| First | Second | |
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| 1781 | East Maegashira #3 (5-1-3-1hold) | East Juryo #5 (6-2) |
| 1782 | East Juryo #3 (5-1) | East Maegashira #4 (7-1-1-1draw) |
| 1783 | East Maegashira #4 (5-0-3-1hold-1nodecision) | East Maegashira #2 (6-0-2-1draw-1hold) |
| 1784 | East Komusubi (6-2-2holds) | East Sekiwake (9-0-1) |
| 1785 | no tournament held | no tournament held |
| 1786 | Unenrolled | East Sekiwake (7-0-3) |
| 1787 | tournament called off due to bad harvest | East Sekiwake (7-1-2) |
| 1788 | East Sekiwake (7-2-1) | East Sekiwake (7-1-1-1hold) |
| 1789 | East Sekiwake (10-0) | East Sekiwake (8-0-1draw-1hold) |
| 1790 | East Ōzeki (8-0-1nodecision) | East Ōzeki (6-1-2-1hold) |
| 1791 | East Ōzeki (8-0-1-1nodecision) | East Ōzeki (8-0-1-1hold) |
| 1792 | Unenrolled | Unenrolled |
| 1793 | Unenrolled | East Ōzeki (8-1-1draw) |
| 1794 | East Ōzeki (3-0-7) | Sat out |
| 1795 | East Ōzeki (4-0-1) | Unenrolled |
| 1796 | Unenrolled | East Ōzeki (7-2-1) |
| 1797 | Unenrolled | East Ōzeki (8-1-1) |
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| Yokozuna is not a successive rank, and more than one wrestler can share the title | ||