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Asahikuni Masuo (旭國 斗雄) (born
April 25, 1947, as
Takeo Ōta (太田武雄)) is a
former sumo
wrestler from Hokkaidō, ****an. His
highest rank was ōzeki.
After his...
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maegashira 4, he lost only to
Kotozakura and
Takanohana and
defeated Asahikuni on the
final day to
finish one win
ahead of Takanohana. A congratulatory...
- (ふりわけ), and he then
switched to the Ōshima (大島)
elder name of
former ozeki Asahikuni in
August 2012. In
December 2012 it was
announced that he
would inherit...
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Tatsunami ichimon or
group of stables. It was set up in 1980 by
former ōzeki
Asahikuni, who
branched off from
Tatsunami stable. The head of
Tatsunami stable...
- include:
Masuo Amada (天田 益男) (born 1958), ****anese
actor and
voice actor Asahikuni Masuo (旭國 斗雄) (born 1947), ****anese sumo
wrestler Masuo Ikeda (池田 満寿夫)...
- father-in-law's
death in 1969.
Annenyama produced Asahikuni, an ōzeki in the 1970s, and
sekiwake Kurohimeyama.
Asahikuni retired in 1979 and left to
found Ōshima...
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acquaintance of his
father introduced him to Ōshima-oyakata,
former ōzeki
Asahikuni, who had
recently opened his own heya or
stable of wrestlers, Ōshima stable...
- division. It had been
thought he
would become head of Ōshima
stable when
Asahikuni reached the
mandatory retirement age of sixty-five in
April 2012, but...
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wrestler under 100
kilos to
defeat an ōzeki,
after Chiyonofuji (against
Asahikuni in May 1978) and
Mainoumi (against
Takanohana in July 1994 and Takanonami...
- jūryō champion,
active as an
elder in the JSA
under the name
Iwatomo Asahikuni 1963-7 1979-9 bŌzeki
Tatsunami won 6
technique prizes,
broke off to form...
