Daiju Hisateru
| Daiju Hisateru | |
|---|---|
| 大受久晃 | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | Toshiaki Sakaiya March 19, 1950 Hokkaidō, Japan |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 150 kg (330 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Takashima |
| Record | 462-388-31 |
| Debut | March, 1965 |
| Highest rank | Ōzeki (September, 1973) |
| Retired | May, 1977 |
| Championships | 1 (Jūryō) |
| Special Prizes | Technique (6) Outstanding Performance (4) Fighting Spirit (1) |
| * Up to date as of Jan 2015. | |
Daiju Hisateru (born 19 March 1950 as Toshiaki Sakaiya) is a former sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō, Japan. His highest rank was ōzeki, but he held the rank for only five tournaments, fewer than any ōzeki in the modern era. He won eleven sanshō or special prizes during his top division career which lasted from 1970 to 1977. He was the head coach of Asahiyama stable from 1997 until 2015.
Born in Setana, he joined the small Takashima stable run by former ōzeki Mitsuneyama in March 1965. He reached the top makuuchi division in May 1970 after winning the jūryō division championship with a 14-1 record. He was awarded the Technique Prize in his first top division tournament. He was to win a total of eleven special prizes in his career, which at the time was second only to Tsurugamine's fourteen. His six prizes for Technique put him in equal sixth place on the all-time list, as of 2009. In March 1971 he made his san'yaku debut at sekiwake and defeated his first yokozuna, Taihō.
He earned promotion to ōzeki in 1973 after three consecutive double figure scores. He was a runner-up in the May 1973 tournament to Wajima with a score of 11-4 and defeated two more yokozuna, Kotozakura and Kitanofuji (the latter for the first time in twelve attempts). He did even better in July, defeating Kitanofuji again and finishing in third place on 13-2. He had a clean sweep of all three special prizes, the first wrestler ever to achieve this, and ōzeki promotion was confirmed. However, he was unable to prove himself worthy of champion rank. He had to pull out injured from his debut ōzeki tournament and held the rank for only five tournaments before being demoted. He was never able to return, and though he remained at sekiwake for four tournaments he then fell back to the maegashira ranks.
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