Tamagaki Gakunosuke

Tamagaki Gakunosuke
玉垣 額之助
Personal information
Born Tanaka Kisaku
1784
Minamitakaki, Nagasaki, Japan
Died August 29, 1824 (aged 40)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Weight 105 kg (231 lb)
Career
Stable Tamagaki
Record 119-27-62
13draws-1hold-14noresults
(Makuuchi)
Debut October 1806
Highest rank Ōzeki (November 1814)
Retired August 1824
Championships 4 (Makuuchi, unofficial)
* Up to date as of July 2008.

Tamagaki Gakunosuke IV (1784 – August 29, 1824) was Japanese sumo wrestler from Minamitakaki, Nagasaki, Japan. His highest rank was ōzeki.

Career

He made a professional debut in 1806 and was promoted to the top makuuchi division in 1810. In April 1814, he was ranked at maegashira 1, but in the very next November 1814 tournament, he was ranked at ōzeki. The reason was that the banzuke (the sumo wrestlers' hierarchy) was changed to that based on real ability.

In June 1823, Tamagaki and Kashiwado were awarded yokozuna licences by the Gojo family. However, after Kashiwado rejected the licence, he also rejected his. In the next year, he died while being an active wrestler.

In the top makuuchi division, he won only four tournaments, but his win ratio finally reached .815. Kashiwado won 16 tournaments, but he recorded the win ratio .810.

Top division record

Tamagaki[1]
- Spring Winter
1810 x West Maegashira #6
621
1nr

 
1811 West Maegashira #6
53
2nr

 
West Maegashira #5
312
4d

 
1812 West Maegashira #5
40
1d
Unofficial

 
West Maegashira #4
62
2d

 
1813 West Maegashira #1
512
2d

 
West Komusubi
313
3d

 
1814 West Maegashira #1
Sat out due to injury
0010
West Ōzeki
711
1h
Unofficial

 
1815 Not enrolled Sat out
1816 West Ōzeki
52
1nr

 
West Ōzeki
701
1d 1nr

 
1817 West Ōzeki
523
 
West Ōzeki
622
 
1818 West Ōzeki
702
1nr
Unofficial

 
West Ōzeki
612
1nr

 
1819 West Ōzeki
513
1nr

 
West Ōzeki
306
1nr

 
1820 West Ōzeki
51
 
West Ōzeki
711
1nr
Unofficial

 
1821 West Ōzeki
612
1nr

 
Not enrolled
1822 Not enrolled West Ōzeki
621
1nr

 
1823 West Ōzeki
312
1nr

 
West Ōzeki
423
1nr

 
1824 West Ōzeki
Retired
0010
Record given as win-loss-absent    Top Division Champion Retired Lower Divisions

Key:  =Kinboshi(s);   d=Draw(s) (引分);   h=Hold(s) (預り);   nr=no result recorded
Divisions: Makuuchi Jūryō Makushita Sandanme Jonidan Jonokuchi

Makuuchi ranks: 
Yokozuna (not ranked as such on banzuke until 1890)
Ōzeki Sekiwake Komusubi Maegashira

*Championships for the best record in a tournament were not recognized or awarded before the 1909 summer tournament, and the unofficial championships above are historically conferred. For more information, see yūshō.

See also

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