Koboyama
| Kōbōyama Daizō | |
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| 髙望山大造 | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Kōkichi Yomogida August 15, 1957 Tsukidate, Miyagi, Japan |
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 135 kg (298 lb; 21.3 st) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Takashima → Kumagatani |
| Record | 579-606-21 |
| Debut | March, 1973 |
| Highest rank | Sekiwake (January, 1984) |
| Retired | November, 1990 |
| Special Prizes | Technique (2) |
| * Up to date as of July 2012. | |
Kōbōyama Daizō (born 15 August 1957 as Kōkichi Yomogida) is a former sumo wrestler from Tsukidate, Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He made his professional debut in 1973 and reached the top makuuchi division in 1981. His highest rank was sekiwake. He earned two special prizes for Technique and was a runner-up in one tournament. He retired in 1990. He is now a sumo coach and ran the Takashima stable from 1993 until 2011.
He came from a family of beef cattle farmers. He was a Prefectural Junior School Sumo Champion.
He joined Takashima stable at the age of 15 in March 1973, recruited by former ōzeki Mitsuneyama. There were a large number of new recruits in that tournament because of a rule change. Also among them was the future top division wrestler Chikubayama. He made the juryo division in May 1981 at the age of 23. He reached the top makuuchi division for the first time in November 1981, although he was demoted back to juryo after three tournaments. In May 1982 he took part in a playoff for the juryo division championship or yusho and although he was defeated (he would never win a championship in any division) he was promoted back to the top division. He was transferred to Kumagatani stable in the same year upon the retirement of his stablemaster. He was runner-up to Chiyonofuji in July 1982, earning his first special prize for Technique. In November 1983 he won his second Technique prize and was promoted all the way from maegashira 7 to sekiwake, because of the failure of the men above him in the rankings to obtain winning records. This was to be his highest rank. He won only two bouts in this tournament and made the sanyaku ranks only one more time, at komusubi in September 1985. He struggled against the top ranked wrestlers, failing to defeat a yokozuna in 17 attempts, and beating an ozeki only twice in 35 attempts (Asashio and Hokutenyu once each). Nevertheless he was ranked in the top division for 42 straight tournaments from re-entering makuuchi in March 1983, before being finally demoted to the juryo division after the January 1990 tournament.
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