# List of sekiwake

This is a list of all sumo wrestlers whose pinnacle in the sport has been the third highest rank of sekiwake and who held the rank in the modern era of sumo since the 1927 merger of the Tokyo and Osaka organizations. There are usually two active sekiwake. Wrestlers who went on to be promoted to ōzeki and yokozuna can be seen in the list of ōzeki and list of yokozuna.
The number of tournaments (basho) at sekiwake is also listed. Wrestlers who won a top division yūshō are indicated in bold. Active wrestlers (September 2024) are indicated by italics.
The longest-serving sekiwake of modern times, who did not achieve further promotion, have been Hasegawa and Kotonishiki who each held the rank for 21 tournaments (Kotomitsuki was ranked at sekiwake for 22 tournaments before being promoted to ōzeki).

## List

| Name | Basho at rank | Born | From | Promoted | End of rank |
| Kiyosegawa Keinosuke | 5 | 1893 | Hiraka, Akita | 1921 | 1928* |
| Wakabayama Atsumi | 8 | 1895 | Chiba, Chiba | 1922 | 1927* |
| Dewagatake Bunjiro | 2 | 1902 | Kaminoyama | 1926 | 1928* |
| Yamanishiki Zenjiro | 2 | 1898 | Osaka | 1927 | 1928* |
| Nishikinada Yosaburo | 7 | 1900 | Aira, Kagoshima | 1928 | 1930* |
| Tenryū Saburō | 6 | 1903 | Hamamatsu | 1930 | 1932 |
| Hatasegawa Kunishichiro | 5 | 1905 | Yuzawa, Akita | 1932 | 1934* |
| Okitsuumi Fukuo | 4 | 1910 | Munakata, Fukuoka | 1932 | 1933 |
| Takanobori Hirochika | 4 | 1908 | Shimoina, Nagano | 1933 | 1935* |
| Ayagawa Goroji II | 1 | 1898 | Nishitsugaru, Aomori | 1935 | 1935 |
| Shinkai Kozo | 2 | 1904 | Akita, Akita | 1935 | 1935 |
| Oshio Seijiro | 1 | 1900 | Okawa, Fukuoka | 1936 | 1936 |
| Kasagiyama Katsuichi | 2 | 1911 | Yamatokoriyama | 1937 | 1942* |
| Dewaminato Rikichi | 3 | 1907 | Shibata, Niigata | 1937 | 1943* |
| Asahigawa Kokichi | 1 | 1905 | Asahikawa | 1937 | 1937 |
| Taikyuzan Takayoshi | 2 | 1908 | Tamano | 1937 | 1938 |
| Ryogoku Kajinosuke III | 1 | 1907 | Nagasaki | 1938 | 1938 |
| Tamanoumi Umekichi | 3 | 1912 | Omura, Nagasaki | 1938 | 1942* |
| Banjaku Kumataro | 1 | 1908 | Osaka | 1938 | 1938 |
| Ayanobori Takezo | 1 | 1908 | Sendai | 1939 | 1939 |
| Hishuzan Sakae | 3 | 1906 | Sasebo, Nagasaki | 1941 | 1942 |
| Toyoshima Masao | 1 | 1919 | Osaka | 1943 | 1943 |
| Sagamigawa Yoshinobu | 3 | 1917 | Atsugi, Kanagawa | 1943 | 1944 |
| Futasegawa Masaichi | 1 | 1916 | Kitakatsuragi, Nara | 1944 | 1944 |
| Terunobori Katsuhiko | 2 | 1922 | Rumoi | 1944 | 1948* |
| Kamikaze Shoichi | 4 | 1921 | Higashikagawa, Kagawa | 1944 | 1949* |
| Bishūyama Jun'ichi | 1 | 1919 | Fukuyama, Hiroshima | 1945 | 1945 |
| Fudoiwa Mitsuo | 1 | 1924 | Kumamoto | 1946 | 1946 |
| Kozuzan Yoshinobu | 1 | 1919 | Takaichi, Nara | 1947 | 1947 |
| Rikidōzan Mitsuhiro | 3 | 1924 | Omura, Nagasaki | 1949 | 1950* |
| Tokitsuyama Jin'ichi | 10 | 1925 | Iwaki, Fukushima | 1954 | 1959* |
| Hajimayama Masanobu | 1 | 1922 | Hashima, Gifu | 1956 | 1956 |
| Dewanishiki Tadao | 3 | 1925 | Sumida, Tokyo | 1956 | 1962* |
| Tsurugamine Akio | 2 | 1929 | Kajiki, Kagoshima | 1956 | 1962* |
| Tamanoumi Daitaro | 5 | 1923 | Oita, Oita | 1957 | 1959* |
| Haguroyama Sojō | 14 | 1934 | Shimokawa, Hokkaido | 1957 | 1962* |
| Kitanonada Noboru | 2 | 1923 | Abashiri, Hokkaido | 1957 | 1960* |
| Wakamaeda Eiichirō | 3 | 1930 | Nishibiwajima, Aichi | 1958 | 1959* |
| Shinobuyama Harusada | 3 | 1925 | Date, Fukushima | 1958 | 1958 |
| Fusanishiki Katsuhiko | 3 | 1936 | Ichikawa, Chiba | 1959 | 1961* |
| Daigō Hisateru | 10 | 1937 | Marugame, Kagawa | 1960 | 1965* |
| Iwakaze Kakutaro | 5 | 1934 | Edogawa, Tokyo | 1961 | 1963* |
| Maedagawa Katsu | 2 | 1939 | Esashi, Iwate | 1961 | 1962* |
| Hagurohana Toji | 5 | 1936 | Nishiokoppe, Hokkaido | 1961 | 1964* |
| Oginohana Masaaki | 3 | 1935 | Mikatsuki, Saga | 1962 | 1963 |
| Kainoyama Isamu | 3 | 1940 | Ryugasaki, Ibaraki | 1963 | 1968* |
| Aonosato Sakari | 1 | 1935 | Kuraishi, Aomori | 1963 | 1963 |
| Wakachichibu Komei | 2 | 1939 | Chichibu, Saitama | 1963 | 1963 |
| Kairyūyama Teruhisa | 2 | 1939 | Showa, Akita | 1964 | 1964* |
| Myobudani Yasuhiko | 5 | 1937 | Akan, Hokkaido | 1964 | 1967* |
| Wakamiyama Kōhei | 2 | 1943 | Toyama, Toyama | 1965 | 1966 |
| Kōtetsuyama Toyoya | 1 | 1942 | Otaru, Hokkaido | 1967 | 1967 |
| Fujinokawa Takeo | 2 | 1946 | Otofuke, Hokkaido | 1967 | 1970* |
| Hasegawa Katsuhiro | 21 | 1944 | Kurisawa, Hokkaido | 1969 | 1974* |
| Tochiazuma Tomoyori | 1 | 1944 | Soma, Fukushima | 1970 | 1970 |
| Fukunohana Koichi | 1 | 1940 | Koshi, Kumamoto | 1971 | 1971 |
| Mutsuarashi Yukio | 1 | 1943 | Tohoku, Aomori | 1971 | 1971 |
| Takamiyama Daigorō | 8 | 1944 | Maui, Hawaii | 1972 | 1977* |
| Fujizakura Yoshimori | 2 | 1948 | Kofu, Yamanashi | 1974 | 1978* |
| Kurohimeyama Hideo | 8 | 1948 | Oumi, Niigata | 1974 | 1979* |
| Kirinji Kazuharu | 7 | 1953 | Kashiwa, Chiba | 1975 | 1979* |
| Kongō Masahiro | 1 | 1948 | Fukagawa, Hokkaido | 1975 | 1975 |
| Washūyama Yoshikazu | 3 | 1949 | Kurashiki, Okayama | 1976 | 1977* |
| Arase Nagahide | 9 | 1949 | Ino, Kōchi | 1976 | 1980* |
| Kitaseumi Hiromitsu | 2 | 1948 | Setana, Hokkaido | 1976 | 1977* |
| Kaneshiro Kofuku | 1 | 1953 | Takanabe, Miyazaki | 1977 | 1977 |
| Tamanofuji Shigeru | 6 | 1949 | Ogawa, Tochigi | 1978 | 1979* |
| Kurama Tatsuya | 1 | 1952 | Yasu, Shiga | 1978 | 1978 |
| Tochiakagi Takanori | 6 | 1954 | Numata, Gunma | 1979 | 1980* |
| Kaiki Nobuhide | 1 | 1952 | Tenmabayashi, Aomori | 1979 | 1979 |
| Ōzutsu Takeshi | 3 | 1956 | Yokkaichi, Mie | 1981 | 1983* |
| Daijuyama Tadaaki | 3 | 1959 | Niitsu, Niigata | 1981 | 1989* |
| Dewanohana Yoshitaka | 7 | 1951 | Nakasato, Aomori | 1982 | 1983* |
| Aobajō Yukio | 1 | 1948 | Sendai, Miyagi | 1983 | 1983 |
| Masudayama Yasuhito | 1 | 1951 | Nanao, Ishikawa | 1983 | 1983 |
| Tagaryū Shōji | 1 | 1958 | Hitachi, Ibaraki | 1983 | 1983 |
| Kōbōyama Daizō | 1 | 1957 | Tsukidate, Fukushima | 1984 | 1984 |
| Tōryū Kenji | 1 | 1958 | Kakogawa, Hyogo | 1984 | 1984 |
| Hōō Tomomichi | 1 | 1956 | Gamagori, Aichi | 1984 | 1984 |
| Sakahoko Nobushige | 12 | 1961 | Kajiki, Kagoshima | 1984 | 1989* |
| Kotogaume Tsuyoshi | 12 | 1963 | Yatsuo, Toyama | 1986 | 1990* |
| Mitoizumi Masayuki | 4 | 1962 | Mito, Ibaraki | 1986 | 1992* |
| Masurao Hiroo | 1 | 1961 | Itoda, Fukuoka | 1987 | 1987 |
| Tochinowaka Kiyotaka | 7 | 1962 | Shimotsu, Wakayama | 1987 | 1992* |
| Tochitsukasa Tetsuo | 1 | 1958 | Nagoya, Aichi | 1988 | 1988 |
| Terao Tsunefumi | 7 | 1963 | Kajiki, Kagoshima | 1989 | 1990* |
| Akinoshima Katsumi | 12 | 1967 | Toyota, Hiroshima | 1989 | 1999* |
| Kotofuji Takaya | 1 | 1964 | Shibata, Niigata | 1990 | 1990 |
| Kotonishiki Katsuhiro | 21 | 1968 | Misato, Gunma | 1990 | 1997* |
| Takatōriki Tadashige | 15 | 1967 | Kobe, Hyogo | 1991 | 1998* |
| Wakashoyo Shunichi | 1 | 1966 | Nakano, Tokyo | 1993 | 1993 |
| Tosanoumi Toshio | 7 | 1972 | Aki, Kōchi | 1997 | 2005* |
| Tamakasuga Ryōji | 1 | 1972 | Nomura, Ehime | 1997 | 1997 |
| Kotonowaka Terumasa | 2 | 1968 | Obanazawa, Yamagata | 1999 | 1999 |
| Hayateumi Hidehito | 1 | 1975 | Itayanagi, Aomori | 2000 | 2000 |
| Wakanosato Shinobu | 17 | 1976 | Hirosaki, Aomori | 2001 | 2005* |
| Tochinonada Taiichi | 2 | 1974 | Nanao, Ishikawa | 2001 | 2001 |
| Takanowaka Yūki | 2 | 1976 | Ikitsuki, Nagasaki | 2003 | 2003 |
| Kyokutenhō Masaru | 3 | 1974 | Nalaikh, Mongolia | 2003 | 2004* |
| Tamanoshima Arata | 1 | 1977 | Izumizaki, Fukushima | 2004 | 2004 |
| Hokutōriki Hideki | 1 | 1977 | Otawara, Tochigi | 2004 | 2004 |
| Asasekiryū Tarō | 2 | 1981 | Ulaanbaatar Mongolia | 2007 | 2007 |
| Aminishiki Ryūji | 6 | 1978 | Fukaura, Aomori | 2007 | 2012* |
| Toyonoshima Daiki | 5 | 1983 | Sukumo, Kōchi | 2008 | 2016* |
| Aran Hakutora | 1 | 1984 | Vladikavkaz, Russia | 2013 | 2013 |
| Tochiōzan Yūichirō | 11 | 1987 | Aki, Kōchi | 2010 | 2016* |
| Myōgiryū Yasunari | 8 | 1986 | Takasago, Hyogo | 2012 | 2015* |
| Takekaze Akira | 1 | 1979 | Kitaakita, Akita | 2014 | 2014 |
| Aoiyama Kōsuke | 2 | 1986 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 2014 | 2014 |
| Ichinojō Takashi | 8 | 1993 | Arkhangai, Mongolia | 2014 | 2019* |
| Okinoumi Ayumi | 2 | 1985 | Okinoshima, Shimane | 2015 | 2016* |
| Yoshikaze Masatsugu | 4 | 1982 | Saiki, Oita | 2016 | 2017* |
| Kotoyūki Kazuyoshi | 1 | 1991 | Shōdoshima, Kagawa | 2016 | 2016 |
| Ikioi Shōta | 1 | 1986 | Katano, Osaka | 2016 | 2016 |
| Kaisei Ichirō | 1 | 1986 | São Paulo, Brazil | 2016 | 2016 |
| Takarafuji Daisuke | 1 | 1987 | Nakadomari, Aomori | 2016 | 2016 |
| Tamawashi Ichirō | 8 | 1984 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | 2017 | 2019* |
| Daieishō Hayato | 12 | 1993 | Asaka, Saitama | 2020 | active* |
| Takanoshō Nobuaki | 5 | 1994 | Kashiwa, Chiba | 2020 | 2022* |
| Meisei Chikara | 2 | 1994 | Setouchi, Kagoshima | 2021 | 2022 |
| Wakatakakage Atsushi | 7 | 1994 | Fukushima, Fukushima | 2022 | 2023 |
| Abi Masatora | 5 | 1994 | Koshigaya, Saitama | 2022 | 2024* |
| Wakamotoharu Minato | 7 | 1993 | Fukushima, Fukushima | 2023 | 2025* |
| Ōhō Kōnosuke | 1 | 2000 | Kōtō, Tokyo | 2025 | active |
* Wrestler held the rank on at least two separate occasions.