Tagonoura stable (田子ノ浦部屋, Tagonoura-beya) was a stable of sumo wrestlers, part of the Dewanoumi ichimon or group of stables. It was established in February 2000 by former maegashira Kushimaumi, who branched off from Dewanoumi stable.It was located in the Koto ward of Tokyo. In 2012 it had eight sumo wrestlers. The most senior of whom was Bulgarian Aoiyama (Daniel Ivanov) who became the stable's first sekitori and reached the rank of maegashira 7 in January 2012.
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Following the death of Tagonoura in February 2012 the stable was dissolved, with half the wrestlers going to Dewanoumi stable and the other half, including Aoiyama, going to Kasugano stable.
Ring name conventions
Many wrestlers from this stable took shikona that begin with the character 碧 (read: aoi), meaning blue.