Kōbōyama Daizō

Kōbōyama Daizō
髙望山大造
Personal information
Born Kōkichi Yomogida
(1957-08-15) August 15, 1957
Tsukidate, Miyagi, Japan
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Weight 135 kg (298 lb; 21.3 st)
Career
Stable Takashima → Kumagatani
Record 579-606-21
Debut March, 1973
Highest rank Sekiwake (January, 1984)
Retired November, 1990
Special Prizes Technique (2)
* Up to date as of July 2012.

Kōbōyama Daizō (born 15 August 1957 as Kōkichi Yomogida) is a former sumo wrestler from Tsukidate, Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He is now a sumo coach.

Career

He came from a family of beef cattle farmers. He was a Prefectural Junior School Sumo Champion.[1]

He joined Takashima stable in 1973, recruited by former ōzeki Mitsuneyama, although he was transferred to Kumagatani stable in 1982 upon the retirement of his stablemaster. He reached the top makuuchi division in November 1981, and was runner-up to Chiyonofuji in July 1982, earning his first special prize for Technique. In November 1983 he won his second technique prize and was promoted all the way from maegashira 7 to sekiwake, which was to be his highest rank.[2] He made the sanyaku ranks only one more time, at komusubi in September 1985.

Retirement from sumo

He fell to the jūryō division in 1990, retiring at the end of that year. He became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association, and re-established the Takashima stable in 1993. The stable closed in June 2011 when its only remaining wrestler retired, and Takashima moved to Kasugayama stable to work as a coach there.

Fighting style

He specialised in moro-zashi, or using two hands inside his opponent's arms to grab the mawashi, and was fond of the unusual kimarite or technique of tottari, the arm bar throw.[1]

Career record

Kōbōyama Daizō[2]
Year in sumo January
Hatsu basho, Tokyo		 March
Haru basho, Osaka		 May
Natsu basho, Tokyo		 July
Nagoya basho, Nagoya		 September
Aki basho, Tokyo		 November
Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1973 x (Maezumo) East Jonokuchi #6
4–3
 		 West Jonidan #59
2–5
 		 West Jonidan #84
5–2
 		 East Jonidan #48
4–2
 
1974 West Jonidan #36
2–5
 		 West Jonidan #61
4–3
 		 West Jonidan #47
2–5
 		 West Jonidan #69
5–2
 		 East Jonidan #33
4–3
 		 West Jonidan #18
4–3
 
1975 West Jonidan #1
3–4
 		 East Jonidan #12
3–4
 		 West Jonidan #25
4–3
 		 West Jonidan #7
3–4
 		 East Jonidan #24
6–1
 		 East Sandanme #48
4–3
 
1976 East Sandanme #32
4–3
 		 East Sandanme #19
4–3
 		 East Sandanme #8
3–4
 		 East Sandanme #19
4–3
 		 East Sandanme #8
3–4
 		 East Sandanme #17
4–3
 
1977 East Sandanme #3
4–3
 		 West Makushita #52
4–3
 		 East Makushita #41
2–5
 		 West Sandanme #2
5–2
 		 East Makushita #44
4–3
 		 East Makushita #37
3–4
 
1978 East Makushita #48
4–3
 		 West Makushita #35
5–2
 		 West Makushita #22
4–3
 		 East Makushita #15
4–3
 		 East Makushita #12
2–5
 		 West Makushita #32
3–4
 
1979 East Makushita #43
5–2
 		 West Makushita #26
4–3
 		 East Makushita #20
3–4
 		 East Makushita #29
4–3
 		 East Makushita #21
4–3
 		 East Makushita #16
3–4
 
1980 West Makushita #23
3–4
 		 East Makushita #33
3–4
 		 East Makushita #42
3–4
 		 East Makushita #49
5–2
 		 West Makushita #29
6–1
 		 West Makushita #10
3–4
 
1981 East Makushita #17
6–1
 		 West Makushita #4
5–2
 		 East JÅ«ryō #13
11–4
 		 East JÅ«ryō #5
9–6
 		 East JÅ«ryō #1
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #12
8–7
 
1982 West Maegashira #9
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #11
5–10
 		 West JÅ«ryō #1
11–4–P
 		 East Maegashira #11
11–4
T		 West Maegashira #3
0–3–12
 		 East JÅ«ryō #2
7–8
 
1983 East Jūryō #3
10–5
 		 West Maegashira #12
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #3
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #7
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #2
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #7
10–5
T
1984 West Sekiwake #1
2–13
 		 West Maegashira #7
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #2
2–9–4
 		 East Maegashira #14
9–6
 		 West Maegashira #7
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #10
9–6
 
1985 East Maegashira #4
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #10
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #6
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #7
9–6
 		 West Komusubi #1
4–11
 		 East Maegashira #7
6–9
 
1986 West Maegashira #12
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #8
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #11
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #7
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #9
6–9
 		 East #13
8–7
 
1987 West Maegashira #9
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #6
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #1
3–12
 		 West Maegashira #7
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #12
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #4
6–9
 
1988 West Maegashira #5
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #2
4–11
 		 East Maegashira #11
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #7
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #11
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #8
5–10
 
1989 West Maegashira #13
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #9
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #3
3–12
 		 West Maegashira #12
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #10
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #12
7–8
 
1990 East Maegashira #14
3–12
 		 East JÅ«ryō #8
8–7
 		 West JÅ«ryō #3
6–9
 		 West JÅ«ryō #6
7–8
 		 East JÅ«ryō #8
6–9
 		 West JÅ«ryō #11
Retired
2–8
Record given as win-loss-absent    Top Division Champion Retired Lower Divisions

Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: ★=Kinboshi(s); P=Playoff(s)
Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi

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

References

  1. 1 2 Patmore, Angela (1990). The Giants of Sumo. MacDonald/Queen Anne Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-356-18120-0.
  2. 1 2 "Koboyama Daizo Rikishi Information". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 2013-04-21.


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