Hitachiyama Taniemon

Hitachiyama Taniemon (Japanese常陸山 谷右エ門; born January 19, 1874 today Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture as Ichige Tani (市 毛 谷), † June 19, 1922 in Honjo, Sumida ) was a Japanese sumo wrestler at the beginning of 20th century and the 19th yokozuna.

Hitachiyama was born as the eldest son of a vassal of the Mito -han, who had been close to the time of the Shogunate the ruling Tokugawa clan. He began in 1891 as a wrestler of Dewanoumi - Beya his career and in 1903 was promoted to yokozuna.

Between August 1907 and March 1908 Hitachiyama visited with some students, the United States, where they in the White House gave inter alia a demonstration for Theodore Roosevelt. Three wrestlers remained in the United States at the end of the trip.

Hitachiyama counted for years the most successful wrestlers of his time and thanked in 1914 from.

After his playing days Hitachiyama served as equerry to Dewanoumi - Beya. Under his aegis reached Tochigiyama, whom he had promoted from the beginning, the highest dignity in the sumo. The barn also took on his first foreign student, John Kentel.

Hitachiyama is on the Yanaka cemetery Tokyo buried.