Wakanohana Kanji II
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakanohana Kanji II ( , born April 3, 1953) is a former sumo wrestler from wani, Aomori, Japan. He was the sport's 56th Yokozuna. He is now the head coach of Magaki stable.Born as Katsunori Shimoyama, he began his sumo career as a 15 year old in July 1968. He joined Futagoyama stable at the same time as another future yokozuna, Takanosato, who came from the same area of Japan. Initially fighting under his own surname of Shimoyama, he changed to the sumo name of Wakamisugi in 1973. It took him five years to reach the status of a salaried sekitori…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakanohana Kanji II ( , born April 3, 1953) is a former sumo wrestler from wani, Aomori, Japan. He was the sport's 56th Yokozuna. He is now the head coach of Magaki stable.Born as Katsunori Shimoyama, he began his sumo career as a 15 year old in July 1968. He joined Futagoyama stable at the same time as another future yokozuna, Takanosato, who came from the same area of Japan. Initially fighting under his own surname of Shimoyama, he changed to the sumo name of Wakamisugi in 1973. It took him five years to reach the status of a salaried sekitori wrestler, when he broke into the juryo division in May 1973. He was promoted to the top makuuchi division in November 1973. From September 1974 to January 1975 he won three consecutive technique prizes and was promoted to sekiwake. Over the next two years he had some up and down results, but from September 1976 to January 1977 at sekiwake rank he put together three 11-4 marks, won three more special prizes and was promoted to ozeki. In May 1977 he won his first yusho, or tournament championship, with a 13-2 record.