Chiyomaru
| 千代丸 一樹 Chiyomaru Kazuki |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Kazuki Kinoshita April 17, 1991 Shibushi, Kagoshima, Japan |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 180 kg (400 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Kokonoe |
| Current rank | see below |
| Debut | May, 2007 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 11 (September, 2014) |
| Championships | 1 (Jūryō) |
| * Up to date as of Jan 22, 2017. | |
Chiyomaru Kazuki (千代丸 一樹?, born April, 17, 1991 as Kazuki Kinoshita) is a professional sumo wrestler from Shibushi, Kagoshima, Japan. He made his professional debut in May 2007. He took the second division jūryō championship in his third tournament in the division in January 2014 and was promoted to the top makuuchi division in the following tournament. His highest rank has been maegashira 11. He is the older brother of fellow professional sumo wrestler Chiyoōtori, and has served as his younger brother's attendant or tsukebito.
The future Chiyomaru was born in what is now Shibushi city in Kagoshima prefecture. During his primary and middle school years he practiced judo rather than sumo. Upon graduating from a junior high school in Shibushi, he joined Kokonoe stable. His year and a half younger brother, Yūki, would follow him into this stable a year later.
He first entered the professional sumo ring in July 2007. He slowly worked his way up the ranks, and after two years and two months in the ring his shikona (or ring name) was changed to Chiyomaru following the Kokonoe stable custom of giving wrestlers a ring name that starts with Chiyo upon promotion to the sandanme division. It would take him over four years rising slowly through the lower divisions before reaching the professional ranks of jūryō. During this time, in 2011 he and his brother's family home was lost in a fire and they agreed building their parents a new house could be motivation for them to achieve more success in sumo. Chiyomaru's coach, the former Chiyonofuji remarked that before his brother overtook him he lacked motivation and disliked training, and in many ways it was being passed up by his own brother that spurred him on to improve his sumo. To add insult to injury, when Chiyomaru's younger brother became a sekitori (a salaried wrestler) and in need of an attendant, his coach chose Chiyomaru in hopes of motivating him to try harder to make the professional ranks and divest himself of this role. Chiyomaru admits that the indignity of being his own brother's attendant did motivate him and he might not have achieved promotion if this hadn't happened.
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