Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi was a professional sumo wrestler from Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan who wrestled for Tatsunami stable.
12 Facts About Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi won the top division sumo championship in the summer tournament of 1953 and was runner-up in five other tournaments.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi's first professional tournament was in May 1940 as a wrestler for the former incarnation of Tokitsukaze stable, which was a leftover from the days of Osaka sumo.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi tried out a number of ring names before settling on Tokitsuyama to honor the defunct stable he originally debuted for.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi was a weak wrestler at first, and he was not able to actually be listed on the sumo ranking sheet known as the banzuke until the January tournament of 1943.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi did not really bloom as a strong competitor until after returning as a soldier from World War II.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi was promoted to the salaried ranks of juryo in the following summer tournament of 1947.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi was promoted to the top division makuuchi in May 1949, but received a losing record and fell back to juryo.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi was a top division regular from then on.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi was in position to win the championship on the final day of the tournament, but this time had to face yokozuna Chiyonoyama in a playoff, which he lost.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi was a consistent makuuchi wrestler for many years after this, but began to decline after 1960.
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Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi remained in the sumo world after his retirement as an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Oshiogawa, but died of liver cancer at age 43 in November 1968.