Tamanoshima Arata

Tamanoshima Arata
玉乃島 新
Personal information
Born Arata Okabe
(1977-09-15) September 15, 1977
Fukushima, Japan
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 158 kg (348 lb; 24.9 st)
Career
Stable Kataonami
Record 557-583-4
Debut March, 1998
Highest rank Sekiwake (January, 2004)
Retired November, 2011
Championships 1 (Jūryō)
Special Prizes Fighting Spirit (5)
Technique (1)
Gold Stars 2 (Musashimaru, Asashōryū)
* Up to date as of Nov 2011.

Tamanoshima Arata (born September 15, 1977 as Arata Okabe) is a former sumo wrestler from Izumizaki, Fukushima, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in 1998, reaching the top makuuchi division at the end of 2000. He was twice runner-up in a tournament, and earned six special prizes and two gold stars during his career. His highest rank was sekiwake. He wrestled for Kataonami stable.

Career

Tamanoshima was a college champion at Toyo University and so was given makushita tsukedashi status and allowed to make his professional debut in the makushita division.[1] He was only twenty years of age, as he left the university in his second year, making him the youngest former amateur to join professional sumo in this way.[2]

Initially competing under the shikona or ring name of Tamanonada, he reached the second highest jūryō division in September 1999 and the top makuuchi division for the first time in November 2000. In March 2001, upon his second promotion to the top division, he adopted the Tamanoshima name, which had previously been used by a former yokozuna from his stable, Tamanoumi.

Tamanoshima in May 2009.

Tamanoshima was twice runner-up in a tournament, in July 2001 and March 2005, and he earned five Fighting Spirit prizes. In July 2003 he earned his first kinboshi for defeating yokozuna Asashōryū. The highest rank he has achieved is sekiwake, which he reached after scoring ten wins (including another yokozuna upset, over Musashimaru) at maegashira 3 in November 2003. He could only manage five wins in his sekiwake debut, but returned to the sanyaku ranks in July 2004 and January 2006. He was ever present in the top division from March 2001 to January 2008, but a poor 3-12 record in January 2008 meant he was demoted to the second division for the March 2008 tournament. He produced a 10-5 score there which was enough to return him immediately to the top division for May 2008, where he scored a creditable nine wins. However he narrowly failed to secure kachi-koshi in his next three tournaments. He fell to maegashira 15 in January 2009 but held his makuuchi position comfortably with an 11-4 record. He remained in the division until May 2010 when he was once again demoted after scoring only five wins at the bottom maegashira rank.

Retirement

In November 2011, after losing his first eight matches at the rank of jūryō 12 and facing certain demotion to the makushita division, Tamanoshima announced his retirement from active competition. He has stayed in sumo as a coach, initially under the toshiyori or elder name of Nishiiwa Oyakata. In May 2013 he changed elder names to Hanaregoma, and in November 2014 moved to the Nishonoseki stable.

Fighting style

A bout between Tamanoshima and Toyonoshima

Tamanoshima's favoured techniques are listed at the Sumo Association as hidari-yotsu/yori, meaning he preferred a hold on his opponent's mawashi with his right hand outside and left hand inside his opponent's arms. His most common winning kimarite was yori-kiri or force out, which accounted for roughly a third of his wins, followed by oshi-dashi or push out.

Family

Tamanoshima was born into a sports family. Not only was his father a former professional boxer, but he is the nephew of former ōzeki Kiyokuni and his older brother is the former jūryō wrestler Tamamitsukuni (now retired). He and his brother had the option to join Isegahama stable, then run by their uncle, but they chose the more successful Kataonami stable instead.[3]

Tournament record

Tamanoshima Arata[4]
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
1998 x Makushita tsukedashi #60
5–2
 		 West Makushita #43
4–3
 		 West Makushita #34
6–1
 		 East Makushita #13
5–2
 		 West Makushita #6
3–4
 
1999 East Makushita #11
3–4
 		 East Makushita #17
4–3
 		 West Makushita #11
5–2
 		 West Makushita #4
5–2
 		 West Jūryō #13
10–5
 		 West Jūryō #7
6–9
 
2000 West Jūryō #10
5–10
 		 East Makushita #2
5–2
 		 East Jūryō #12
11–4
 		 East Jūryō #4
7–8
 		 West Jūryō #5
10–5
 		 West Maegashira #14
7–8
 
2001 East Jūryō #1
12–3
Champion
 		 East Maegashira #10
11–4
F		 East Maegashira #3
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #7
12–3
F		 West Komusubi #1
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #1
7–8
 
2002 East Maegashira #2
3–12
 		 East Maegashira #9
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #11
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #15
11–4
 		 East Maegashira #5
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #3
5–10
 
2003 East Maegashira #8
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #4
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #3
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #4
5–10
★		 West Maegashira #7
9–6
 		 West Maegashira #3
10–5
F★
2004 West Sekiwake #1
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #3
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #5
12–3
T		 West Komusubi #1
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #2
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #4
8–7
 
2005 East Maegashira #3
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #7
12–3
F		 East Maegashira #1
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #4
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #8
11–4
 		 East Maegashira #1
8–7
 
2006 West Komusubi #1
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #1
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #6
6–9
 		 East Maegashira #10
11–4
F		 East Maegashira #2
4–11
 		 East Maegashira #7
2–9–4
 
2007 East Maegashira #14
10–5
 		 West Maegashira #8
10–5
 		 West Maegashira #2
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #5
6–9
 		 East Maegashira #7
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #6
4–11
 
2008 West Maegashira #13
3–12
 		 East Jūryō #5
10–5
 		 West Maegashira #13
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #10
7–8
 		 East Maegashira #12
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #13
6–9
 
2009 East Maegashira #15
11–4
 		 East Maegashira #6
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #3
5–10
 		 West Maegashira #6
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #3
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #7
4–11
 
2010 East Maegashira #13
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #14
6–9
 		 West Maegashira #16
5–10
 		 East Jūryō #5
6–9
 		 West Jūryō #6
7–8
 		 West Jūryō #8
9–6
 
2011 East Jūryō #6
9–6
 		 West Jūryō #1
Tournament Cancelled
0–0–0		 West Jūryō #1
4–11
 		 West Jūryō #3
6–9
 		 East Jūryō #7
5–10
 		 East Jūryō #12
Retired
0–9
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. ↑ "Brothers in Sumo". sumofanmag.com. February 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
  2. ↑ "Active University/College Grad Rikishi". Sumo Fan Magazine. 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  3. ↑ Kuroda, Joe (October 2006). "Isegahama Seinosuke – Ozeki Kiyokuni Katsuo". Sumo Fan Magazine. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
  4. ↑ "Rikishi in Juryo and Makunouchi". szumo.hu. Retrieved 2007-07-24.

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