Asahiyama stable (2016)

For the stable that became defunct in 2015, see Asahiyama stable.

Asahiyama stable (朝日山部屋 Asahiyama-beya) is a stable of sumo wrestlers, part of the Nishonoseki ichimon (or group of stables) that is located in Chiba prefecture. It's predecessor in name had a very long history in sumo, however the current incarnation is unrelated to it. A year after the closing of the previous incarnation of the stable, the retired former Kotonishiki, after several years of borrowing elder names, finally acquired the vacant elder name of Asahiyama, and set up his own stable, a dream he had had from long before. He financed a building to house his stable in Kamagaya, Chiba near Kunugiyama Station on some land he had procured, quite near the stable he originally wrestled for, Sadogatake.[1][2] Owner Asahiyama's hope was that he could bring together the demanding training he learned as an active wrestler in his original stable, Sadogatake (one of the strongest stables in sumo) and the warmheartedness towards trainees that he later learned as a coach at Oguruma stable.[3]

He took three low ranked wrestlers from the aforementioned Oguruma stable (which along with Sadogatake is also a member of the same ichimon, Nishonoseki) to join his new stable.[4]

Ring name conventions

Currently, the wrestlers who branched out to the new stable with the former Kotonishiki have taken shikona starting with "Asahi", (朝日) meaning morning sun, and which are the first two characters in the owner's elder name and that of the stable.

Owner

See also

References

  1. ↑ "元琴錦の中村親方が朝日山襲名　年内に部屋再興へ Former Kotonishiki, Nakamura elder to take the elder name Asahiyama and start own stable". Nikkan sports. 1 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "元関脇琴錦の朝日山親方、独立へ　４４番目の部屋起こす Former Sekiwake Kotonishiki, Elder Asahiyama, goes independent and opens the 44th sumo stable". Asahi Shimbun. 19 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "元琴錦「朝日山部屋」再興　３力士連れ尾車から独立 Kotonishiki revives Asahiyama stable, branches out independently with 3 wrestlers from Oguruma". Nikkan Sports. 1 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Asahiyama stable information". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 17 June 2016.

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