Futagodake Takeshi (born 15 November 1943 as Takeshi Yamanaka) is a former
sumo
is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by th ...
wrestler from
Kanagi,
Aomori
, officially Aomori City (, ), is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 264,945 in 136,781 households, and a population density of 321 people per squa ...
,
Japan
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. He made his professional debut in January 1961, and reached the
top division in January 1967. His highest rank was ''
komusubi
, or , is the top division of the six divisions of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers ('' rikishi''), ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous tournaments.
This is the o ...
''. He retired in September 1976 and became an
elder in the
Japan Sumo Association
The , officially the ; sometimes abbreviated JSA or NSK, and more usually called Sumo Kyōkai, is the governing body that operates and controls Professional sports, professional sumo wrestling, called , in Japan under the jurisdiction of the Min ...
. In 1993 he branched out from
Futagoyama stable
is a heya (sumo), stable of sumo wrestlers, part of the Dewanoumi ichimon, group of stables. It was established on 1 April 2018 by former ''Makuuchi#Ōzeki, ōzeki'' Miyabiyama, who branched off from Fujishima stable (2010), Fujishima stable, ...
and opened up
Araiso stable. Araiso stable folded when Futagodake reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 in November 2008.
Career record
See also
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List of past sumo wrestlers
This is a list of prominent past wrestlers (either retired or deceased) in the sport of professional sumo. They are listed in order of the year and tournament month that they made their professional debuts. The information listed below was gleaned ...
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List of komusubi
This is a list of all sumo wrestlers whose pinnacle in the sport has been the fourth highest rank of ''komusubi'' and who held the rank in the modern era of sumo since the 1927 merger of the Tokyo and Osaka organizations. There are usually two ac ...
References
1943 births
Living people
Japanese sumo wrestlers
Sumo people from Aomori Prefecture
Komusubi
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