Kashiwado Tsuyoshi

"Kashiwado" redirects here. For the article about the Ozeki, see Kashiwado Risuke

Kashiwado Tsuyoshi
Kashiwado's handprint displayed on a monument in Ryōgoku, Tokyo
Personal information
Born	Tsuyoshi Togashi (1938-11-29)November 29, 1938 Yamagata, Japan
Died	December 8, 1996(1996-12-08) (aged 58)
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	139 kg (306 lb)
Career
Stable	Isenoumi
Record	715-295-140
Debut	September, 1954
Highest rank	Yokozuna (September, 1961)
Retired	July, 1969
Championships	5 (Makuuchi) 1 (Juryo) 1 (Makushita)
Special Prizes	Fighting Spirit (2) Technique (4) Outstanding Performance (2)
* Up to date as of July 2007.

Kashiwado Tsuyoshi (柏戸 剛, November 29, 1938 - December 8, 1996) was a sumo wrestler from Japan. He was the sport's 47th Yokozuna, fighting at sumo's highest rank from 1961 to 1969. After his retirement he became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association and ran his own training stable from 1970 until his death.

Career

Born in the northern prefecture of Yamagata, Kashiwado made his professional debut in September 1954, joining Isenoumi stable. He initially fought under his own surname of Togashi. Upon reaching the top makuuchi division in September 1958 he rose rapidly up the rankings. In only his fourth top division tournament, following a shikona change to Kashiwado, he was runner-up to yokozuna Tochinishiki with a 13-2 record and earned special prizes for Fighting Spirit and Technique. He made the sanyaku ranks in November 1959, winning promotion to ozeki in September 1960 and taking his first top division yusho in January 1961. After taking part in a playoff for the championship in September of that year, he was promoted to yokozuna, joining the aging pair of Asashio and Wakanohana who were soon to retire.

Kashiwado was to win five top division championships, a long way behind the thirty-two captured by his rival Taiho, who was promoted to yokozuna simultaneously with him. He was however a tournament runner-up on no fewer than fifteen occasions. He suffered from many injury problems during his career, which led to him being dubbed the "glass yokozuna". He failed to complete four tournaments in a row from January to July 1963. However he made a spectacular comeback in September 1963, winning his first championship as a yokozuna (and second yusho in total) with a perfect 15-0 record. He was listed as a yokozuna on the banzuke for 47 tournaments, which puts him in equal 6th place on the all-time list. He was popular among sumo crowds, appealing to those who found Taiho too dominant. The eight years in which the two shared the yokozuna rank was known as the Hakuho era, a combination of their names (Haku is another reading of Kashi.)

Fighting style

Kashiwado's favoured kimarite or techniques were migi-yotsu (a left hand outside, right hand inside grip on the opponents mawashi), yorikiri (force out) and tsukidashi (thrust out). In all, about sixty percent of his wins were by either force out or force out and down (yoritaoshi).

Retirement from sumo

After retiring from active competition in July 1969 he remained in the sumo world as an elder, and he opened up his own stable, Kagamiyama, in November 1970. He coached Tagaryu to the top division championship in September 1984. He also served as a director of the Sumo Association and was head of the judges committee until 1994. He died of liver failure in 1996, at the age of 58. Taiho was at Kashiwado's bedside and was distraught over his death.

Top division record

Kashiwado Tsuyoshi

Year	January Hatsu basho, Tokyo	March Haru basho, Osaka	May Natsu basho, Tokyo	July Nagoya basho, Nagoya	September Aki basho, Tokyo	November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1958	x	x	x	x	East Maegashira #20 9–6	West Maegashira #17 8–7
1959	East Maegashira #16 8–7	West Maegashira #13 13–2 FT	East Maegashira #4 5–10	East Maegashira #8 9–6	East Maegashira #3 12–3 F	East Komusubi 8–7
1960	East Komusubi 9–6 T	West Sekiwake 9–6 O	West Sekiwake 10–5 T	East Sekiwake 11–4 TO	West Ōzeki 12–3	East Ōzeki 11–4
1961	West Ōzeki 13–2	East Ōzeki 12–3	East Ōzeki 10–5	West Ōzeki 11–4	West Ōzeki 12–3–P	East Yokozuna 12–3
1962	West Yokozuna 10–5	East Yokozuna 11–4	West Yokozuna 11–4	West Yokozuna 11–4	West Yokozuna 11–4	West Yokozuna 12–3
1963	Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	West Yokozuna 5–1–9	Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	West Yokozuna 15–0	East Yokozuna 10–5
1964	West Yokozuna 12–3	West Yokozuna 14–1	West Yokozuna 11–1–3	Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	East Yokozuna 4–2–9	East Yokozuna 2–4–9
1965	Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	West Yokozuna 9–6	East Yokozuna 12–3	East Yokozuna 12–3–P	West Yokozuna 1–1–13
1966	West Yokozuna 14–1	East Yokozuna 10–5	West Yokozuna 12–3	West Yokozuna 12–3	West Yokozuna 13–2–P	West Yokozuna 10–5
1967	West Yokozuna 12–3	East Yokozuna 11–4	West Yokozuna 13–2	West Yokozuna 14–1	East Yokozuna 9–6	East Yokozuna 11–4
1968	East Yokozuna 9–6	West Yokozuna 9–6	East Yokozuna 4–4–7	East Yokozuna 10–5	East Yokozuna 9–6	West Yokozuna 11–4
1969	West Yokozuna 10–5	West Yokozuna 9–6	East Yokozuna 9–6	West Yokozuna Retired 1–3	x	x
Record given as wins–losses–absencies    Top division champion Top division runner-up Retired Lower divisions Non-participation Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: ★=Kinboshi; P=Playoff(s) Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

See also

• Glossary of sumo terms
• List of past sumo wrestlers
• List of sumo tournament winners
• List of sumo tournament second division winners
• List of Yokozuna

External links

• Japan Sumo Association profile