Mitsuneyama Hokoku

Mitsuneyama Hōkoku
三根山 宝國

With the Emperor's Cup in 1954
Personal information
Born Tōichi Shimamura
(1922-02-07)February 7, 1922
Tokyo, Japan
Died August 15, 1989(1989-08-15) (aged 67)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Weight 150 kg (330 lb)
Career
Stable Takashima
Record 479-389-35
Debut May 1937
Highest rank Ōzeki (September 1953)
Retired January 1960
Championships 1 (Makuuchi)
1 (Jūryō)
1 (Sandanme)
Special Prizes Outstanding Performance (5)
Fighting Spirit (2)
Gold Stars 9
Terukuni (3)
Kagamisato (2)
Akinoumi
Maedayama
Azumafuji
Chiyonoyama
* Up to date as of December 2009.

Mitsuneyama Hokoku, real name Toichi Shimamura (7 February 1922 – 15 August 1989) was a sumo wrestler from Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan.

Career

Mitsuneyama in a bout against Nayoroiwa in 1953

He began his professional career in 1937, joining Takashima stable, reaching the top makuuchi division in 1944. He earned nine kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna whilst ranked as a maegashira, and seven sanshō or special prizes. In 1953, at the age of 31, he was promoted to the second highest rank of ōzeki, and three tournaments later took his only top division yūshō or tournament championship, with a 12-3 record. He lost the ōzeki rank in 1955, largely due to injuries. He carried on fighting in the maegashira ranks until January 1960 when he retired at the age of nearly 38.

Retirement from sumo

He remained in the sumo world as a toshiyori or elder of the Japan Sumo Association, and became the head coach of the Takashima stable in May 1961. He produced the top division wrestlers Daiju and Koboyama, but resigned due to ill health in 1982, the heya being absorbed into Kumagatani stable.[1] He continued to work as a coach at Kumagatani before leaving the Sumo Association in January 1985. He died in 1989.

Pre-modern top division record

Mitsuneyama Hokoku[2]
- Spring
Haru basho, Tokyo
Summer
Natsu basho, Tokyo
Autumn
Aki basho, Tokyo
1944 West Maegashira #12
114
 
East Maegashira #4
73
East Maegashira #1
64
1945 Not held West Komusubi #1
16
 
West Maegashira #6
37
 
1946 Not held Not held West Maegashira #10
112
 
1947 Not held East Komusubi #2
451
 
East Maegashira #2
83
1948 Not held West Komusubi #1
74
 
East Sekiwake #1
47
 
1949 East Maegashira #2
94
O
West Komusubi #1
681
 
West Maegashira #1
87
 
1950 West Sekiwake #1
366
 
East Maegashira #2
87
East Komusubi #1
114
 
1951 East Sekiwake #2
132
O
East Sekiwake #1
78
 
East Sekiwake #2
114
O
1952 East Sekiwake #1
87
 
West Sekiwake #1
114
O
East Sekiwake #1
69
 
- New Year
Hatsu basho, Tokyo
Spring
Haru basho, Osaka
Summer
Natsu basho, Tokyo
Autumn
Aki basho, Tokyo
1953 East Komusubi #2
105
 
East Sekiwake #2
114
F
East Sekiwake #1
123
O
East Ōzeki #2
87
 
1954 East Ōzeki #2
105
 
East Ōzeki #1
123
 
East Ōzeki #1
105
 
West Ōzeki #1
510
 
1955 East Ōzeki #1
96
 
East Ōzeki #1
375
 
West Ōzeki #1
69
 
East Sekiwake #2
Sat out due to injury
0015
1956 East Maegashira #2
411
 
West Maegashira #6
510
 
East Maegashira #13
96
 
West Maegashira #10
105
F
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 Ōzeki Sekiwake Komusubi Maegashira

Modern tournament record

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
1957 East Maegashira #2
78
East Maegashira #3
510
 
East Maegashira #6
96
Not held East Maegashira #2
69
West Maegashira #3
510
 
1958 East Maegashira #8
510
 
East Maegashira #14
105
 
West Maegashira #7
105
 
East Maegashira #2
78
 
West Maegashira #3
69
 
East Maegashira #5
78
 
1959 East Maegashira #6
69
 
East Maegashira #8
78
 
West Maegashira #9
78
 
West Maegashira #10
87
 
East Maegashira #9
96
 
East Maegashira #3
213
 
1960 East Maegashira #13
Retired
447
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 Ōzeki Sekiwake Komusubi Maegashira

See also


References

  1. Sharnoff, Lora (1993). Grand Sumo. Weatherhill. p. 205. ISBN 0-8348-0283-X.
  2. "Mitsuneyama Hokoku Rikishi Information". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 2013-05-23.


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