Wakamisugi Akiteru

Wakamisugi Akiteru
若三杉 彰晃
Personal information
Born	Noboru Sugiyama (1937-09-24)24 September 1937 Kagawa, Japan
Died	2 November 1983(1983-11-02) (aged 46)
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	133 kg (293 lb)
Career
Stable	Hanakago
Record	444-394-4
Debut	March, 1955
Highest rank	Sekiwake (July, 1960)
Retired	May, 1967
Championships	1 (Makuuchi) 1 (Makushita)
Special Prizes	Outstanding Performance (2) Fighting Spirit (3)
Gold Stars	8 Tochinoumi (5) Asashio III Kashiwado Sadanoyama
* Up to date as of July 2007.

Wakamisugi Akiteru, also known as Daigō Hisateru, (24 September 1937 – 2 November 1983) was a sumo wrestler from Kagawa, Japan. The highest rank he achieved was sekiwake. He was the brother in law of yokozuna Wakanohana Kanji I.

Career

He was born as Noburu Sugiyama in Marugame. He entered professional sumo in March 1955, recruited by Hanakago stable. He used a variety of different shikona, including his own surname of Sugiyama, Kunikaze and Misugiiso, before adopting the name Wakamisugi when he reached sekitori status upon promotion to the juryo division in May 1958. He was promoted to the top makuuchi division in November 1958. He won the top division championship in May 1960 from the rank of maegashira 4. After losing to ozeki Wakahaguro on the opening day of the tournament he won his next 14 bouts. One of his wins was by default, over yokozuna Tochinishiki who had announced his retirement the previous day. He had a genuine victory over yokozuna Asashio on Day 4. He finished with a 14-1 record, one win ahead of yokozuna Wakanohana, who he did not have to fight as they were members of the same stable. It was his first and only tournament win.

In September 1962 Wakamisugi changed his shikona once again, to Daigō Hisateru. He was a tournament runner-up in November 1962 and November 1965, both times to Taiho. He held the sekiwake rank ten times in total, including seven consecutive tournaments from May 1963 to May 1964. He earned eight kinboshi for defeating yokozuna (most of them coming after he dropped from the sekiwake rank in 1964) and five came from the same yokozuna, Tochinoumi.

Retirement from sumo

He retired in May 1967 and became an elder of the Sumo Association under the name Araiso, working as a coach at Hanakago stable until his death.

Fighting style

Wakamisugi's favoured kimarite or techniques were hidari-yotsu (a right hand outside, left hand inside grip on the mawashi), uwatenage (overarm throw), and yorikiri (force out).

Career record

• The Kyushu tournament was first held in 1957, and the Nagoya tournament in 1958.

See also

• Glossary of sumo terms
• List of sumo tournament top division champions
• List of past sumo wrestlers

References

External links

• Complete career record