Yōtsukasa Dai

Yōtsukasa Dai
燁司 大
Personal information
Born Daishi Suzuki
(1973-09-23) September 23, 1973
Matsusaka, Mie, Japan
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 149 kg (328 lb)
Career
Stable Irumagawa
Record 357-379-12
Debut January, 1996
Highest rank Maegashira 11 (January, 2004)
Retired November, 2005
* Up to date as of Sep. 2012.

Yōtsukasa Dai (born 23 September 1973 as Daishi Suzuki) is a former sumo wrestler from Matsusaka, Mie, Japan. He made his professional debut in January 1996, and reached the top division in May 1999. His highest rank was maegashira 11. He retired in November 2005. He became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association and worked as a coach at Irumagawa stable, but was unable to acquire permanent elder stock and so had to borrow elder names owned by active wrestlers or stable-masters. He was variously known as Hatachiyama (owned by Tochinohana), Wakafuji (Otsukasa), Sekinoto (Iwakiyama), Onogawa (Kitanoumi), Sendagawa, (Maenoyama) and Takenawa (Tochinonada). He was finally forced to leave the Sumo Association in January 2012 when Tochinonada retired and no other elder names were available.

Career record

Yōtsukasa Dai[1]
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
1996 Makushita tsukedashi #60
6–1
 		 East Makushita #31
3–4
 		 East Makushita #42
4–3
 		 West Makushita #32
4–3
 		 West Makushita #21
4–3
 		 West Makushita #13
1–6
 
1997 West Makushita #38
3–4
 		 West Makushita #48
6–1–P
 		 East Makushita #22
6–1–P
 		 West Makushita #8
5–2
 		 East Makushita #4
4–3
 		 East Makushita #2
3–4
 
1998 East Makushita #6
4–3
 		 East Makushita #5
6–1
 		 West Jūryō #12
9–6
 		 West Jūryō #8
7–8
 		 East Jūryō #11
9–6
 		 West Jūryō #7
7–8
 
1999 West Jūryō #9
9–6
 		 West Jūryō #1
8–7
 		 East Maegashira #15
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #12
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #13
0–3–12
 		 East Jūryō #7
9–6
 
2000 West Jūryō #2
3–12
 		 West Jūryō #10
8–7
 		 East Jūryō #6
8–7
 		 East Jūryō #5
6–9
 		 West Jūryō #7
5–10
 		 West Jūryō #11
9–6
 
2001 East Jūryō #5
7–8
 		 West Jūryō #5
6–9
 		 West Jūryō #7
8–7
 		 West Jūryō #4
6–9
 		 West Jūryō #7
6–9
 		 East Jūryō #11
3–12
 
2002 East Makushita #8
3–4
 		 East Makushita #14
4–3
 		 East Makushita #12
4–3
 		 East Makushita #8
5–2
 		 West Makushita #2
5–2
 		 West Jūryō #10
9–6
 
2003 East Jūryō #7
10–5
 		 West Jūryō #1
9–6
 		 East Maegashira #13
6–9
 		 East Jūryō #1
8–7
 		 West Maegashira #13
7–8
 		 West Maegashira #15
9–6
 
2004 East Maegashira #11
5–10
 		 East Maegashira #17
6–9
 		 East Jūryō #3
6–9
 		 East Jūryō #5
7–8
 		 West Jūryō #6
8–7
 		 West Jūryō #5
4–11
 
2005 West Jūryō #9
6–9
 		 West Jūryō #12
8–7
 		 East Jūryō #10
7–8
 		 West Jūryō #11
6–9
 		 West Jūryō #13
7–8
 		 East Jūryō #14
Retired
0–15
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. ↑ "Yotsukasa Dai Rikishi Information". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 2013-03-06.

External links


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