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Tagonoura stable (田子ノ浦部屋, Tagonoura-beya), formerly Naruto stable is a stable of sumo wrestlers, one of the Nishonoseki group of stables.
Contents
- Ring name conventions
- Owners
- Notable active wrestlers
- Notable former members
- Referees
- Usher
- Hairdresser
- Location and access
- References
The stable was established on 1 February 1989 by former yokozuna Takanosato Toshihide. The stable's first sekitori was Rikio in 1994. Four more, Wakanosato, Takanowaka, Takayasu and Kisenosato, have reached sekiwake rank, with Kisenosato going on to reach the yokozuna rank in 2017. Naruto died suddenly on 7 November 2011. The stable's current master, former maegashira Takanotsuru, changed to the Tagonoura toshiyori in December 2013 and renamed the stable accordingly. Upon changing the stable name, the stable was also moved to the Ryōgoku area from Matsudo, Chiba. It has no connection to the defunct Tagonoura stable established by the late Kushimaumi. As of the January 2017 tournament it had seven wrestlers, making it one of the smaller stables in sumo, but five new recruits joined for the March 2017 tournament.
Ring name conventions
Many wrestlers at this stable have taken ring names or shikona that end with the character 里 (read: sato), in deference to their coach and the stable's owner, the deceased former Takanosato.
Owners
Notable active wrestlers
Notable former members
Referees
Usher
Hairdresser
Location and access
Tokyo, Edogawa ward, Higashi Koiwa 4-9-20
10 minute walk from Koiwa Station on the Sōbu Line