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A toshiyori (年寄), also known as an oyakata (親方), is a sumo elder exercising both coaching functions with active wrestlers and responsibilities within the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). All toshiyori are former wrestlers who reached a sufficiently high rank to be eligible to this status.
Oyakata (親方) A sumo coach, almost always the owner of one of the 105 name licenses (toshiyori kabu). Also used as a suffix as a personal honorific. Ōzeki (大関) 'Great barrier', but usually translated as 'champion'. The second-highest rank of sumo wrestlers. Ōzeki-tori (大関取り or 大関とり)
This is a list of elders of the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). More accurately called "elder stock" or toshiyori kabu, these names are a finite number of licenses that can be passed on, and are strictly controlled by the JSA. They allow certain advantageous privileges and there are official criteria for whether or not a retiring wrestler can ...
Terao was a toshiyori (a sumo elder) known as Shikoroyama Oyakata. In February 2004 he established Shikoroyama stable. [7] He decided not to take any wrestlers from Izutsu stable with him, recruiting all the new stable's wrestlers himself.
Akira Nakao as Kumada-oyakata, a toshiyori and current chairman of the Sumo Association. Kensho Sawada as Enya , a member of Ensho stable and former komusubi who seeks to regain his lost rank. Goro Kishitani as Ryukoku- oyakata , a former yokozuna and an expecting and straight-laced master.
Kotokaze became an elder of the Sumo Association under the name Oguruma-oyakata. In 1987 he left Sadogatake to set up his own Oguruma stable. He gives all of his new recruits shikona with the suffix "kaze" (wind), taken from his own fighting name. The first wrestler from the stable to achieve sekitori status was Tomikaze in July 2000.
Chiyonofuji and Kitanofuji swapped names, Chiyonofuji becoming Kokonoe-oyakata and gaining control of the stable, whilst Kitanofuji became Jinmaku-oyakata, attached to Hakkaku stable, set up by the former Hokutoumi in 1993. In the early 1990s Kokonoe stable was one of the largest in sumo but had only one sekitori, Tomoefuji.
In July 2022 the Sumo Association announced that Magaki-oyakata (Hakuhō) and Miyagino-oyakata (former maegashira Chikubayama) would be exchanging elder-stocks, with Hakuhō becoming the 13th Miyagino and officially becoming the main coach at the stable. [8]