Kitabayama Hidetoshi

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北葉山 英俊
Kitabayama Hidetoshi
Personal information
Birth name Hidetoshi Yamada
Date of birth May 17, 1935 (1935-05-17) (age 73)
Place of birth Hokkaido, Japan
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 119 kg (260 lb)
Career*
Heya Tokitsukaze
Record 522-327-21
Debut May, 1954
Highest rank Ozeki (July 1961)
Retired May, 1966
Yusho 1 (Makuuchi)
1 (Juryo)
1 (Makushita)
1 (Sandanme)
Special Prizes Outstanding Performance (1)
Fighting Spirit (2)

* Career information is correct as of July 2007.

Kitabayama Hidetoshi (born 17 May 1935) is a former sumo wrestler from Muroran, Hokkaidō, Japan. His highest rank was ozeki.

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[edit] Career

Kitabayama entered sumo in May 1954, joining Tokitsukaze stable. He was 173cm tall and weighed 119kg, which would make him extremely small by today's sumo standards. After winning the juryo championship in September 1958 with a 14-1 record he entered the top makuuchi division in November 1958. He was a runner-up in only his second top division tournament and quickly made the sanyaku ranks, reaching sekiwake in November 1959. He was to remain at sekiwake rank for nine of the next ten tournaments. After finishing runner-up to maegashira Sadanoyama in the May 1961 tournament with an 11-4 record he was promoted to ozeki. He had won 28 bouts over the previous three tournaments, not normally enough for ozeki promotion, but there were only two ozeki at the time, and two ageing yokozuna (Asashio and Wakanohana) and so the standard was lowered slightly. In an era dominanted by Taihō he was only able to win one tournament championship, in July 1963, when he defeated Sadanoyama in a playoff. He was also runner-up for a third time in the May 1964 tournament. He held his ozeki rank for a total of 30 tournaments over a period of five years.

[edit] Retirement from sumo

Kitabayama retired from active competition in May 1966, following two losing scores in his last two tournaments that would have seen him demoted from the ozeki rank. He remained in the sumo world as an elder, under the name Edagawa, and was on the board of Directors of the Japan Sumo Association before his retirement in 2000 upon reaching the age of sixty-five.

[edit] Top division record

Kitabayama Hidetoshi[1]
January
Hatsu basho, Tokyo		 March
Haru basho, Osaka		 May
Natsu basho, Tokyo		 July
Nagoya basho, Nagoya		 September
Aki basho, Tokyo		 November
Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1958 x x x x x West Maegashira #13
9–6
 
1959 East Maegashira #10
11–4
 		 West Maegashira #4
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #3
9–6
 		 East Komusubi
8–7
 		 East Komusubi
8–7
 		 West Sekiwake
8–7
 
1960 West Sekiwake
9–6
 		 East Sekiwake
10–5
F		 East Sekiwake
7–8
 		 East Komusubi
11–4
 		 East Sekiwake
11–4
F		 West Sekiwake
9–6
 
1961 East Sekiwake
8–7
 		 East Sekiwake
9–6
 		 East Sekiwake
11–4
O		 East Ōzeki #2
8–7
 		 East Ōzeki #2
8–7
 		 West Ōzeki
10–5
 
1962 East Ōzeki
8–7
 		 West Ōzeki
9–6
 		 East Ōzeki
9–6
 		 West Ōzeki
9–6
 		 West Ōzeki #2
11–4
 		 Sat out due to injury
1963 West Ōzeki #2
9–6
 		 East Ōzeki #3
8–7
 		 East Ōzeki #2
9–6
 		 East Ōzeki #3
13–2
 		 West Ōzeki
10–5
 		 West Ōzeki #2
8–7
 
1964 West Ōzeki #2
9–6
 		 West Ōzeki
10–5
 		 East Ōzeki
12–3
 		 East Ōzeki
12–3
 		 West Ōzeki
11–4
 		 East Ōzeki #2
8–7
 
1965 East Ōzeki #2
8–7
 		 East Ōzeki #2
3–6–6
 		 East Ōzeki #2
10–5
 		 West Ōzeki
4–11
 		 East Ōzeki #2
8–7
 		 East Ōzeki
5–10
 
1966 West Ōzeki
8–7
 		 West Ōzeki
7–8
 		 West Ōzeki
6–9
 		 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
Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi

Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kitabayama Hidetoshi Rikishi Information (English). Sumo Reference. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.

[edit] See also

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