is a stable

Heya

In sumo wrestling, a heya , usually translated into English as stable, is an organization of sumo wrestlers where they train and live. All wrestlers in professional sumo must belong to one. There are currently 49 heya , all but four of which belong to one of five ichimon...

 of sumo

Sumo

is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

 wrestlers, one of the Takasago group of stables. It was established in its modern incarnation in May 1986 by Fujizakura of the Takasago stable

Takasago stable

is a stable of sumo wrestlers, one of the Takasago group of stables.It is correctly written in Japanese as "髙砂部屋", but the first of these kanji is rare, and is more commonly written as "高砂部屋"....

. The stable's first sekitori

Sekitori

A sekitori is a sumo wrestler who is ranked in one of the top two professional divisions: makuuchi and juryo.Currently there are 70 rikishi in these divisions...

 was Saigo in November 1995. It has yet to produce any makuuchi

Makuuchi

or is the top division of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers , ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous tournaments....

 wrestlers. As of December 2007 had 14 sumo wrestlers. The stable has a policy of not recruiting foreigners or former collegiate competitors. Instead, the stablemaster only accepts new recruits out of middle school. However, he does allow his wrestlers to take high school correspondence courses over the internet.

Nakamura Yoshio - oyakata

• Nakazawa Yoshio(given name) (former sekiwake Fujizakura(ring name))

External links

• Nakamura stable home page (Japanese)
• Nakamura stable page at Japan Sumo Association (English) (Japanese)
• Article on Nakamura stable {English)