Tamagaki Gakunosuke IV was Japanese sumo wrestler. His highest rank was Ozeki. Kashiwado Risuke

Kashiwado Risuke

Kashiwado Risuke was a sumo wrestler from Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.-Career:Kashiwado was born in Aomori and went to Edo in 1806, joining Isenoumi stable. He was given the name "Kashiwado" and worked under Hirosaki Domain. His highest rank was Ozeki...

 was his rival.

Career

He made a professional debut in 1806 and was promoted to the top 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....

division in 1810. In April 1814, he was ranked at maegashira #1, but, in the next November 1814 tournament, he was ranked at Ozeki. The reason was that the banzuke

Banzuke

This article is about the banzuke document, for a list of wrestlers as ranked on an actual banzuke see List of active sumo wrestlersA , officially called is a document listing the rankings of professional sumo wrestlers published before each official tournament or honbasho. The term can also...

(the sumo wrestlers' hierarchy) changed to that based on real ability.

In June 1823, Tamagaki and Kashiwado were awarded yokozuna licences by the Gojo family. However, after Kashiwado rejected the licence, he also rejected this. In the next year, he died while being an active wrestler.

In the top makuuchi division, he won only four tournament, but his win ratio finally reached .815. Kashiwado won 16 tournaments, but he recorded the win ratio .810.

Top division record

*2 tournaments were held yearly in this period, though the actual time they were held was often erratic

*Championships from this period were unofficial

*There was no fusensho system until March 1927

*All top division wrestlers were usually absent on the 10th day until 1909

*In April 1819, March 1820 and October 1822, he was tied with east ozeki Kashiwado Risuke

Kashiwado Risuke

Kashiwado Risuke was a sumo wrestler from Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.-Career:Kashiwado was born in Aomori and went to Edo in 1806, joining Isenoumi stable. He was given the name "Kashiwado" and worked under Hirosaki Domain. His highest rank was Ozeki...

, so several historians include those championships

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 120%"
|-
!
!First
!Second
|-
|1810
!x
|West Maegashira #6 (6-2-1-1noresult)
|-
|1811
|West Maegashira #6 (5-3-2noresults)
|West Maegashira #5 (3-1-2-4draws)
|-
|1812
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West Maegashira #5 (4-0-1draw)
|West Maegashira #4 (6-2-2draws)
|-
|1813
|West Maegashira #1 (5-1-2-2draws)
|West Komusubi (3-1-3-3draws)
|-
|1814
|bgcolor=gray|Sat out
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West Ōzeki (7-1-1-1hold)
|-
|1815
|bgcolor=gray|Unenrolled
|bgcolor=gray|Sat out
|-
|1816
|West Ōzeki (5-2-1noresult)
|West Ōzeki (7-0-1-1draw-1noresult)
|-
|1817
|West Ōzeki (5-2-3)
|West Ōzeki (6-2-2)
|-
|1818
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West Ōzeki (7-0-2-1noresult)
|West Ōzeki (6-1-2-1noresult)
|-
|1819
|West Ōzeki (5-1-3-1noresult)
|West Ōzeki (3-0-6-1noresult)
|-
|1820
|West Ōzeki (5-1)
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West Ōzeki (7-1-1-1noresult)
|-
|1821
|West Ōzeki (6-1-2-1noresult)
|bgcolor=gray|Unenrolled
|-
|1822
|bgcolor=gray|Unenrolled
|West Ōzeki (6-2-1-1noresult)
|-
|1823
|West Ōzeki (3-1-2-1noresult)
|West Ōzeki (4-2-3-1noresult)
|-
|1824
|bgcolor=gray|Sat out
!x

• The wrestler's East/West designation, rank, and win/loss record are listed for each tournament.
• A third figure in win-loss records represents matches sat-out during the tournament
• an X signifies the wrestler had yet to reach the top division at that point in his career or a tournament after he retired

{|
| Green Box=Tournament Championship
|}

External links

Tamagaki Gakunosuke Tournament results