Tamanoumi Daitarō

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Template other 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Personal life

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

Career record

1937 x (Maezumo) Not held 1938 ShinjoTemplate:Ifnumber
1–2
  West JonokuchiTemplate:Ifnumber
6–1
Champion
  Not held 1939 East JonidanTemplate:Ifnumber
4–3
  East SandanmeTemplate:Ifnumber
4–4
  Not held 1940 East SandanmeTemplate:Ifnumber
4–3–1
  West SandanmeTemplate:Ifnumber
6–2
  Not held 1941 East MakushitaTemplate:Ifnumber
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 MakushitaTemplate:Ifnumber
12–3
  East MakushitaTemplate:Ifnumber
11–4
  1951 East MakushitaTemplate:Ifnumber
11–4
  West JūryōTemplate:Ifnumber
9–6
  East JūryōTemplate:Ifnumber
8–5–2
  1952 East JūryōTemplate:Ifnumber
11–4
  West JūryōTemplate:Ifnumber
10–5
  East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
10–5
  Record given as wins–losses–absences    Top division champion Top division runner-up Retired Lower divisions Non-participation

Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: ★=Kinboshi; P=Playoff(s)
Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi

Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

1953 East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
13–2
F West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
7–8
  West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
5–7–3
★ East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
8–7
  1954 East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
7–8
  East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
5–10
  West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
6–6–3
  West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
9–6
  1955 East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
8–7
  East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
7–8
★ West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
6–9
  West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
8–7
★★ 1956 West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
5–10
  East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
10–5
  East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber
10–5
★★ East KomusubiTemplate:Ifnumber
9–6
O Record given as wins–losses–absences    Top division champion Top division runner-up Retired Lower divisions Non-participation

Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: ★=Kinboshi; P=Playoff(s)
Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi

Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

Year	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 SekiwakeTemplate:Ifnumber 11–4 F	East SekiwakeTemplate:Ifnumber 11–4 O	East SekiwakeTemplate:Ifnumber 0–6–9	Not held	Template:Ifnumber Sat out due to injury 0–0–15	West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 15–0 F
1958	West KomusubiTemplate:Ifnumber 5–10	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 6–9 ★	West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 11–4	West KomusubiTemplate:Ifnumber 6–9	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 10–5 ★★	West KomusubiTemplate:Ifnumber 8–7
1959	West SekiwakeTemplate:Ifnumber 9–6	West SekiwakeTemplate:Ifnumber 4–9–2	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 8–7	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 4–11	West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 9–6	West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 12–3
1960	West KomusubiTemplate:Ifnumber 4–11	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 3–12	West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 10–5	West MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 4–11	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 7–8	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber 6–9
1961	East MaegashiraTemplate:Ifnumber Retired 7–8	x	x	x	x	x
Record given as wins–losses–absences    Top division champion Top division runner-up Retired Lower divisions Non-participation Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: ★=Kinboshi; P=Playoff(s) Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira

See also

• List of sumo record holders
• List of sumo tournament second division champions
• List of sumo tournament top division champions
• Glossary of sumo terms
• List of past sumo wrestlers
• List of sekiwake