Ohinode Takaaki

Ohinode Takaaki - 大日ノ出 崇揚 (born January 19, 1970) is a former Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Chikusa, Hyogo. He made his debut in January 1992 and wrestled for Tatsunami stable. He reached the makuuchi division in March 1999. His highest rank was maegashira 9 and he retired in September 2000.

## **Early Life**

Takaaki Nishida was born the eldest son of a tax accountant. Since he had family members playing for the Hanshin Tigers, he decided to joined the baseball club in his elementary school where he played as a pitcher and a cleanup hitter. He continued his baseball career at Shiso Shiritsu Chikusa Junior High School. Nishida's first sumo experience came during his third year of junior high school where he participated in a local sumo tournament and won. After this, he attended Ichikawa High School where he decided to quit baseball and solely focus on sumo. He continued his amateur career all the way up to the collegiate level where he wrestled for Nihon University. He joined Tatsunami stable in January 1992.

## **Career**

### **Early Career**

Because of his amateur achievements he was given special dispensation to begin his professional career at the bottom of the third highest makushita division. He made his debut in January 1992, fighting under the shikona of "Nishidayama" (西田山). He gradually rose up the ranks of makushita and in March 1994 he changed his shikona to "Ohinode" (大日ノ出). In November 1996 he produced a strong 6-1 record at the rank of makushita 5 which earned him a promotion to juryo in January 1997.

### **Juryo Career**

It took him 30 tournaments to reach juryo from his professional debut. In January 1998, ranked at the top of the makushita division, five of his seven bouts were against juryo ranked wrestlers, a record. He was promoted back to juryo after this tournament. After four consecutive winning records he was promoted to makuuchi in March 1999.

### **Makuuchi Career**

He reached the top makuuchi division in March 1999, shortly after his old stablemaster, ex-sekiwake Annenyama, had retired and been replaced as Tatsunami Oyakata by ex-komusubi Asahiyutaka. This was 43 tournaments after his debut, which at the time was the slowest amongst makushita tsukedashi entrants. By contrast, Miyabiyama, who made his top division debut in the same tournament, had begun as a makushita tsukedashi entrant just four tournaments earlier in July 1998. His highest rank was maegashira 9, which he achieved in May 1999. He was demoted back to juryo in March 2000.

## **Retirement from Sumo**

Ohinode retired from active competition in September 2000 due to a lung problem. Although this prevented him from doing sumo it did not affect his everyday life. His danpatsu-shiki, or retirement ceremony, was held at a hotel in Tokyo on December 15th, 2000. After sumo, he became a businessman.

## **Fighting Style**

Ohinode was a yotsu-sumo (grappling) specialist who preferred a migi-yotsu (left hand outside, right hand inside) grip on his opponent's mawashi. His most common winning kimarite was yori-kiri (force out).

## **Record**

### **Division Results**

* **Total:** 262-243-34/504 (53 basho)
* **Makuuchi:** 42-48/90 (6 basho)
* **Juryo:** 103-107-15/210 (15 basho)
* **Makushita:** 117-88-19/204 (32 basho)

## **Shikona History**

* Nishidayama Takaaki (1992.01 - 1994.01)
* Ohinode Takaaki (1994.03 - 2000.09)

## **Gallery**

### **JSA Profile Pictures and Tegata**

Ohinode Takaaki - 1997 (Retrieved from the JSA)Ohinode's tegata
### **Career Overview**

Ohinode after promotion to Juryo (c. 1996)Ohinode in Juryo (c. 1997)Ohinode battles his opponent (c. 1998)Ohinode after promotion to Makuuchi (c. 1999)Ohinode during the Makuuchi dohyo-iri (c. 1999)Ohinode plays around with YotsukasaOhinode announces his retirement (c. 2000)
## **Sources**

* Ohinode Takaaki Japanese Wikipedia Article
* Ohinode Takaaki Rikishi Information