Daijuyama Tadaaki is a former sumo wrestler from Niitsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
11 Facts About Daijuyama Tadaaki
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Daijuyama Tadaaki made his professional debut in 1975, reaching the top makuuchi division in 1980.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki was ranked in makuuchi for 64 tournaments, winning four special prizes, and seven gold stars for defeating yokozuna.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki was a runner-up to Chiyonofuji in the July 1982 tournament.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki retired in 1991 and became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki re-established the Hanakago stable in 1992 and produced his first top division wrestler Koryu in 2008.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki joined Futagoyama stable in March 1975 at the age of 16, recruited by the former yokozuna Wakanohana I Joining the stable at the same time as him was future ozeki Wakashimazu.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki fell back to juryo after only two tournaments, but returned in March 1981.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki was rewarded with his first special prize, for Fighting Spirit, and promotion to the sanyaku ranks at sekiwake, which was to be the highest rank he was to achieve.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki remained in the sumo world as a coach, initially at his old stable, but in late 1992 he branched out and re-established the Hanakago stable, the previous incarnation of which had been wound up in 1985 when the previous owner of the Hanakago stock, former yokozuna Wajima, resigned from the Sumo Association.
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Daijuyama Tadaaki recruited the Mongolian wrestler Koryu in 2000, and he became the stable's first sekitori after the November 2006 tournament, and reached the top division in July 2008.