Kagamio
| Kagamiō Nanji 鏡桜 南二 |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Nanjid Batkhuu February 9, 1988 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| Height | 182 cm (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 136 kg (300 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Kagamiyama |
| Current rank | see below |
| Debut | July, 2003 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 9 (September, 2015) |
| Championships | 1 (Jūryō) |
| * Up to date as of August 28, 2017. | |
Kagamiō Nanji (鏡桜 南二, born 9 February 1988 as Nanjid Batkhuu), is a professional sumo wrestler from the city of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. He made his debut in July 2003 for Kagamiyama stable, and he is one of only two wrestlers in that stable as of 2016. He reached the jūryō division in January 2013 and the top makuuchi division a year after that. His highest rank has been maegashira 9.
In his younger years he took part in basketball and Mongolian wrestling. When he was 13 he asked his basketball coach what had become of the former skilled basketball player Mönkhbatyn Davaajargal (who would later become the yokozuna Hakuhō). When he heard Davaajargal had moved to Japan to try his hand at sumo, Batkhuu himself began to seriously think about doing the same thing himself. In 2003 at the invitation of the then active Kyokushūzan he came to Japan along with the future Tokusegawa. He soon joined Kagamiyama stable and first entered the ring in maezumō in July 2003. He took the name Kagamiō from part of the stable's name and chose characters for his second name that sounded similar to his real given name of Nanjid.
His name appeared on the banzuke in September 2003. During the tournament, he lost to Tokusegawa with whom he had come to Japan. Though he did manage to get a majority of wins in his first tournament, his continuing low weight of around 90 kilograms was one factor holding him back and he struggled in the jonidan division for close to two years. Kagamiyama stable had not had new entrants for quite some time, with the only other wrestler in the stable being Ryūsei, the son of the stablemaster, former sekiwake Tagaryū. This was not a satisfactory situation for training, so Kagamiō would often commute to the now defunct Nakamura stable to get adequate practice with other wrestlers.
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