Kiyoshi Myobudani

Kiyoshi Myobudani (明歩谷 清, Myōbudani Kiyoshi, born 29 April 1937) is a former sumo wrestler from Akan, Hokkaidō, Japan. He made his professional debut in March 1954. He was a member of Miyagino stable. His highest rank was sekiwake and he twice took part in playoffs for the top makuuchi division tournament championship or yūshō. The first was an unusual three-way playoff in September 1961 (against Kashiwado and Taihō, with Taihō, emerging as the winner) and the other was against Kashiwado in September 1965. He was also a runner-up in two other tournaments. He earned eight sanshō or special prizes for his achievements in tournaments, four for Outstanding Performance and four for Fighting Spirit. He also earned three kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna. For most of his career his fighting name was his own surname, although he did briefly use the shikona or fighting name of Yoshibanada in 1963 (his stablemaster, Miyagino-oyakata, was the 43rd yokozuna Yoshibayama). He retired in November 1969, and became a toshiyori or elder of the Japan Sumo Association, under the name Nakamura. He left the Sumo Association in 1977. In the same year he became a Jehovah Witnesses. His biography can be found in the magazine Awake!, 8 November 1981.

Career record

• The Kyushu tournament was first held in 1957, and the Nagoya tournament in 1958.

See also

• List of past sumo wrestlers
• Glossary of sumo terms

References

External links

• Miyobudani at Sumo Reference