Tochigiyama Moriya

Tochigiyama Moriya (Japanese栃 木 山 守 也, actually: Yokota (later Nakata ) Moriya (横 田(中 田)守 也), born February 5, 1892, at District Shimotsuga of Tochigi Prefecture, † October 3, 1959 ) was a Japanese sumo wrestler and the 27. yokozuna.

Tochigiyama was the son of a shopkeeper, already had as a teenager on a very powerful figure and was very athletic and an excellent swimmer. He sought initially to a career as an officer in the Imperial Navy, but visited after completing secondary school, a military academy in order to enter into the imperial army. As he was riding well too thick, as he later himself once said, but already excelled as a student as a judo fighter, he decided to try his luck rather than Sumōkämpfer. The yokozuna Hitachiyama sent him to the former wrestler Hanaregoma who considered it well and further post, so that Tochigiyama went to study in Tokyo. As a wrestler of Dewanoumi - Beya, who was the greatest wrestler stable already at that time and in 1914 headed Hitachiyama, Tochigiyama became one of the most important Sumōkämpfer the early 20th century.

In 1911 Tochigiyama began its steep ascent through the ranks, reaching 1914 juryo and 1915, the Makuuchi division. In the seven tournaments, he needed it, he was defeated only twice. In May 1916, he defeated Yokozuna Tachiyama, the then strongest fighters for the first time, and thus ended the winning streak of 56 matches won. His success against the top wrestlers of the division he managed to repeat in the next season when he triumphed not only over again Tachiyama, but also two fights against another yokozuna this time, Otori, could decide for themselves. Through these successes, Tochigiyama had established and was appointed in January 1917 to ozeki. Exactly one year later, the carriage came to yokozuna of the Tokyo Association and at a size of only 1.72 m and a weight of just 105 kg. In 1925, he finished his career, in their entire course he had suffered only 23 defeats and nine tournament victories in the top division was able to celebrate. He sat then continued his career in Sumōverband as Kasugano Oyakata.

• Yokozuna
• Sumo Wrestler (Japan)
• Japanese
• Born in 1892
• Died in 1959
• Man
• Pseudonym