Tamanoumi Daitarō

Tamanoumi Daitarō
Tamanoumi Daitarō
	玉乃海代太郎
Personal information
Born	Tomohiro Miura; 2 January 1923; Ōita, Japan
Died	27 September 1987 (aged 64)
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight	120 kg (260 lb)
Career
Stable	Nishonoseki
Record	390–325–36
Debut	May, 1937
Highest rank	Sekiwake (January 1957)
Retired	January, 1961
Elder name	Kataonami
Championships	1 (Makuuchi); 1 (Jonokuchi)
Special Prizes	Outstanding Performance (2); Fighting Spirit (3)
Gold Stars	9; Tochinishiki (4); Chiyonoyama (2); Haguroyama; Kagamisato; Yoshibayama
	* Up to date as of June 2020.

Tamanoumi Daitarō, real name Tomohiro Miura, (2 January 1923 – 27 September 1987) was a sumo wrestler from Ōita, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He won a top division tournament championship in 1957. He was later the head coach of Kataonami stable.

Career

He made his professional debut at the age of 14 in May 1937, joining Nishonoseki stable, then run by active yokozuna Tamanishiki, although upon Tamanishiki's death the following year Tamanoumi Umekichi became his stablemaster. He used the shikona of Fukusumi. However, during a sumo tour of Shanghai in 1940, he got into a drunken argument with a driver. Military police went to the site and he also began to fight with them. Police officers wanted him shot, but ōzeki Haguroyama (later yokozuna) and his stablemaster apologized to them. He survived, but was forced to leave sumo and was drafted into the Japanese army.[1] After escaping a POW camp in Siberia and returning to Japan to work in a shipyard, he was invited to return to sumo in 1950. He was allowed to resume his career in the third makushita division where he had left off, and made the jūryō division in 1951, adopting the Tamanoumi name, and the top makuuchi division the year after, when he was already 29 years old. In May 1953, he faced Haguroyama in the ring for the only time. Tamanoumi defeated the man who had helped save his life, in what was to be the last bout of Haguroyama's career.

Tamanoumi reached his highest rank of sekiwake in 1957 but then was forced to sit out a couple of tournaments through injury. He fell to the maegashira ranks and considered retiring, but came back to win the top division tournament championship in November 1957 (the first time the Kyūshū honbasho had been staged) with a perfect 15–0 score. During that tournament he wore a gold-coloured mawashi, the first wrestler to flout the Japan Sumo Association's rule that only dark colours should be worn.[2] It had been given to him by the chairman of his supporter's club, who was also the head of the shipping company for whom he had worked in his years out of sumo.[3] Because other wrestlers regarded it as a symbol of good luck, and also because NHK began colour broadcasts of sumo matches in 1960, many others have followed Tamanoumi's lead and worn brightly coloured mawashi.[4] He was runner-up in two other tournaments and earned nine kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna.

Retirement from sumo

He retired in January 1961 at the age of 38, and opened up the Kataonami stable, which he ran until his death. The stable produced the yokozuna Tamanoumi Masahiro. In his later years he was also a somewhat controversial commentator for NHK's sumo coverage.[4]

Personal life

His second wife was a teacher of traditional Japanese music as well as a professional singer.[2]

Career record

Tamanoumi Daitarō[5]
-	Spring Haru basho, Tokyo	Summer Natsu basho, Tokyo	Autumn Aki basho, Tokyo
1937	x	(Maezumo)	Not held
1938	Shinjo 1–2	West Jonokuchi #1 6–1 Champion	Not held
1939	East Jonidan #2 4–3	East Sandanme #27 4–4	Not held
1940	East Sandanme #25 4–3–1	West Sandanme #23 6–2	Not held
1941	East Makushita #31 3–5	Out of sumo	Not held
1942	Out of sumo	Out of sumo	Not held
1943	Out of sumo	Out of sumo	Not held
1944	Out of sumo	Out of sumo	Out of sumo
1945	Not held	Out of sumo	Out of sumo
1946	Not held	Not held	Out of sumo
1947	Not held	Out of sumo	Out of sumo
1948	Not held	Out of sumo	Out of sumo
1949	Out of sumo	Out of sumo	Out of sumo
1950	Out of sumo	West Makushita #28 12–3	East Makushita #16 11–4
1951	East Makushita #6 11–4	West Jūryō #14 9–6	East Jūryō #8 8–5–2
1952	East Jūryō #7 11–4	West Jūryō #3 10–5	East Maegashira #18 10–5
Record given as win-loss-absent Top Division Champion Top Division Runner-up Retired Lower Divisions Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi(s); P=Playoff(s) Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

-	New Year Hatsu basho, Tokyo	Spring Haru basho, Osaka	Summer Natsu basho, Tokyo	Autumn Aki basho, Tokyo
1953	East Maegashira #9 13–2 F	West Maegashira #1 7–8	West Maegashira #2 5–7–3 ★	East Maegashira #4 8–7
1954	East Maegashira #3 7–8	East Maegashira #4 5–10	West Maegashira #6 6–6–3	West Maegashira #7 9–6
1955	East Maegashira #5 8–7	East Maegashira #4 7–8 ★	West Maegashira #4 6–9	West Maegashira #6 8–7 ★★
1956	West Maegashira #3 5–10	East Maegashira #6 10–5	East Maegashira #2 10–5 ★★	East Komusubi 9–6 O
Record given as win-loss-absent Top Division Champion Top Division Runner-up Retired Lower Divisions Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi(s); P=Playoff(s) Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

Year in sumo	January Hatsu basho, Tokyo	March Haru basho, Osaka	May Natsu basho, Tokyo	July Nagoya basho, Nagoya	September Aki basho, Tokyo	November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1957	West Sekiwake 11–4 F	East Sekiwake 11–4 O	East Sekiwake 0–6–9	Not held	Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	West Maegashira #14 15–0 F
1958	West Komusubi 5–10	East Maegashira #3 6–9 ★	West Maegashira #6 11–4	West Komusubi 6–9	East Maegashira #2 10–5 ★★	West Komusubi 8–7
1959	West Sekiwake 9–6	West Sekiwake 4–9–2	East Maegashira #5 8–7	East Maegashira #2 4–11	West Maegashira #7 9–6	West Maegashira #1 12–3
1960	West Komusubi 4–11	East Maegashira #5 3–12	West Maegashira #13 10–5	West Maegashira #5 4–11	East Maegashira #8 7–8	East Maegashira #9 6–9
1961	East Maegashira #13 Retired 7–8
Record given as win-loss-absent Top Division Champion Top Division Runner-up Retired Lower Divisions Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi(s); P=Playoff(s) Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

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References

Newton, Clyde (5 November 2000). "Big guns head for Kyūshū tourney". Japan Times. Retrieved 19 June 2008.
Sharnoff, Lora (1993). Grand Sumo. Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0283-X.
[sumo] Yokozuna Tamanoumi
Gould, Chris (April 2008). "NSK meets NHK" (PDF). Sumo Fan Magazine. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
"Tamanoumi Daitaro Rikishi Information". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 21 April 2013.

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[1] Newton, Clyde (5 November 2000). "Big guns head for Kyūshū tourney". Japan Times. Retrieved 19 June 2008.

[Sharnoff-2] Sharnoff, Lora (1993). Grand Sumo. Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0283-X.

[3] [sumo] Yokozuna Tamanoumi

[gould-4] Gould, Chris (April 2008). "NSK meets NHK" (PDF). Sumo Fan Magazine. Retrieved 28 April 2008.

[5] "Tamanoumi Daitaro Rikishi Information". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 21 April 2013.