page_title: Tokushinhō Motohisa
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Tokushinhō Motohisa / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: taken at May 2010 tournament
context_page_description: Tokushinhō Motohisa is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Matsusaka, Mie. His sumo stable was Kise. His height is 193 cm and his peak weight is 224 kg. His highest rank was jūryō 6. Hs is the first former amateur from Asahi University to reach the sekitori ranks. He retired in June 2020.
context_section_description: From elementary school he did karate, but he became interested in sumo at Mie High School and began entering sumo competitions. He was an amateur wrestler at Asahi University and reached the top 16 in the Inter Collegiate and second place in the Western Japan College Tournament. He was a contemporary of Tosayutaka. He joined Kise stable in March 2007 at the age of 23. He was only the third former member of Asahi University's small sumo club to turn professional. He weighed 182 kilograms (401 lb) upon his debut. He initially fought under his own surname of Shiratsuka. In March 2009 he switched to the shikona of Tokushinhō and won the makushita division championship or yūshō with a 6–1 record. He was promoted to the jūryō division for the first time in September 2009. He spent a total of 27 tournaments ranked in jūryō with a win/loss record of 187–218. He never reached the top makuuchi division; his highest rank being jūryō 6 in September 2013. His last appearance in jūryō was in November 2015. 
  His peak weight of 224 kilograms (494 lbs) means he ranks twelfth in the list of heaviest sumo wrestlers, and is the sixth-heaviest Japanese sumo wrestler ever after Yamamotoyama, Kenho, Susanoumi, Kainowaka and Hidenoumi.
caption: Tokushinhō in May 2010
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