student yokozuna for the 2nd year in a row 1969.11.29
Hanakago-oyakata at the celebrations, 69.12.16
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first keiko as shindeshi - 69.12.22: 11-11 against Takanohana on degeiko, who is about to get re-promoted to makuuchi
makushita yusho at the debut basho - Hatsu 1970
Haru basho - again 7-0 yusho
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and juryo promotion
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with hair perm at the Natsu-basho
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Aki 70
day 1 oshitaoshi Daimonji
new makuuchi Hatsu 71
71 Natsu
day 15 ●Takamiyama yorikiri
72 Hatsu - the only basho as komusubi
d2 Takanohana yoritaoshi
72 Natsu
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d14 uwatedashinage Takamiyama - for the 1st yusho
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1st yusho 12-3
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parade with Takanohana and Kaiketsu
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ozeki promotion together with Takanohana after Aki 72
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a bout with Takanohana
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1973
Natsu 73
at the tsunatori basho, heading for the basho with one of his 2 Lincoln Continental
preparing for the dohyo-iri in his 4th and last basho as ozeki
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day 4 yorikiri Kitanoumi
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Day 9 shitatenage Mienoumi
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day 11 Kirinji
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day 12 tsuridashi Takanohana
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day 13 yorikiri Kotozakura
Day 14
in the morning, a walk with his dog
shitatenage Kitanofuji for the yusho and the promotion
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Day 15 yorikiri Kiyokuni
2nd yusho 15-0
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yokozuna promotion ensured - parade with ozeki Takanohana
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yokozuna promotion on the 30th
dohyo-iri training on the 1st
first yokozuna dohyo-iri at the Meiji shrine
Nagoya
73.7.9.
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Aki 73
d13 - kotenage Fujizakura 13-0 - yusho in the first basho as yokozuna
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3rd yusho 15-0 - parade with Kaiketsu
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parades the other way round
Takanohana's 2nd yusho 75.9
Kaiketsu's 2nd yusho 76.9
1974
Hatsu
Tenno visit on nakabi
d12 yorikiri Takamiyama
Natsu 74 d15 yorikiri Kitanoumi
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Nagoya d15 shitatenage Kitanoumi (ketteisen)
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Aki day 8 shitatenage Takamiyama
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1975
Hatsu 75d15 yorikiri Kitanoumi
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1976
Hatsu d15: for the yusho, both at 12-2 - ●Kitanoumi yorikiri, 8th jun-yusho
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Haru: 8th yusho
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Natsu
d7 Masuiyama
d10 oshidashi Wakajishi
Aki
Kyushu
1977
Hatsu
d2
d15 abisetaoshi Kitanoumi
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for the 10th yusho
parade with Kaiketsu
before Haru - keiko with Takanohana
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before Natsu - keiko with Kitanoumi
Tenno visit Natsu day 8
Nagoya d15 sukuinage Kitanoumi - 15-0, 11th yusho
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Aki 77
d4 yorikiri Kurama
d5 tsuridashi Kirinji
year end keiko
1978
Hatsu
d1
d3 yorikiri Kurama
d10 ●Yutakayama sukuinage
Natsu d10 uwatenage Ogata
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22.6
1979
Hatsu
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d5 tsuridashi Chiyonofuji
d8 tsuridashi Masuiyama for win 500
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d11 yorikiri Asahikuni
Natsu 79
13th yusho Nagoya 79
parade - Kaiketsu was makekoshi and about to drop to juryo, with Wakajishi
Aki 79
d3 abisetaoshi Tochikikari
d8 ●Takanohana yorikiri
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d12 uwatedashinage Zaonishiki
d15 ●Kitanoumi tsuridashi
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Haru 80
d2 uwatenage Tochiakagi
d3 uwatedashinage Asashio
d7 uwatenage Takanohana
d8 yoritaoshi Kotokaze
Natsu 80
d2 uwatenage Chiyonofuji
d5 yorikiri Kurohimeyma
d6 ●Ozutsu shitatenage
d7
d8 yoritaoshi Tamanofuji
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d9
yorikiri Washuyama
d10 oshidashi Masuiyama
d11 yorikiri Takanohana
Aki 80
d5 oshidashi Tochiakagi
d11●Masuiyama uchigake
d12 yoritaoshi Zaonishiki
d14 ●Kitanoumi yorikiri
Sep. 1980 announcement of the engagement to the daughter of Hanakago-oyakata
14th & last yusho Kyushu 80
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81.1
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marriage reception Jan. 29th 1981, after the last basho he finished
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last bout:
Haru 81 d2 ●Kotokaze yorikiri
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intai day 3, the 10th - with Hanakago-oyakata, who leaves the NSK 10 days before mandatory retirement and Wajima inherits Hanakago
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at portrait presentations with Kitanaoumi
for the 8th before 76.5
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for the 9th 76.9
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for the 10th 77.5
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74.8
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various dohyo-iri
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Yasukuni shrine Apr. 78
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Atsuta shrine Nagoya 80
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extra activities
parties
with Asashio, Hatsu 79 party
Mienoumi ozeki promotion party, Hatsu 1976
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mochi pounding 17.12.1972 and setsubun bean throwing 28.01.1973 with Takanohana
baseball
Rikishi charity softball tournament 1978 10
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with Nagashima 1973.6
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with Matsui and Nagashima 2000.7
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with enka singer Itsuki Hiroshi, Ishikawa pref. local
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distant relative, boxer Wajima: 73.8 - 75.1.26
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danpatsu-shiki 1981.10.4.
ex-Taka / Fujishima cuts
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ex-Waka I makes the final cut instead of the late shisho, former Hanakago, who had died Sep. 20th
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