Taiho Koki

Father Taiho - Markiyan Boryshko, a Ukrainian , was born in the village of Runovshchina of the modern Zachepilovsky district of the Kharkiv region of Ukraine . To the Far East, and then to Sakhalin, Markian got together with his parents-immigrants. ^{[1] [2]} Taiho's mother, Kie Naya, a Japanese seamstress whom Markian met in 1928, their age difference was 18 years old. The family was not rich, but hard-working and, by local standards, quite well-to-do — they kept a farm, a bakery, bred a fox-silver fox . ^[2] Ivan (as his father called him) was born on May 29, 1940 in the city of Sikuka on South Sakhalin . He was the youngest, he had 2 brothers and a sister. When the island passed to the USSR in 1945, the family was separated: the father was captured by the Soviet authorities and repressed as a former White Guard (according to other reports, he began working as a translator from the Japanese and in 1949 was sent to camps for 10 years). Ivan, along with his mother, brothers and sister, was repatriated to Japan in Hokkaido . My father never saw the children again. In the future, Ivan used only the Japanese name, and took the surname of the mother. ^[2] As a sumo player, it is believed to come from Hokkaido .

He began his professional career in 1956 in Nisenoseki Bay ( Jap. 二 所 ノ 関 部屋 ) under his own name Naya. In May 1959, after going to Jyrö , he replaced Seacon with Taiho, which can be translated as “The Great Phoenix ”. In early 1960, he moved to the highest division of the Japanese professional league of sumo ( makuuti ), then in November he won his first Imperial Cup. He became a yokozuna in the next year, 1961. Taiho is the only fighter in history to win at makuuti at least once in each of his years there, and these are 12 incomplete years. He is cited as an example to young wrestlers as a model of hard work and dedication in training, he practiced a lot and intensely until the very end of his career. From the end of 1968 to the spring of 1969, he issued a series of 45 victories in a row, the second in the history after Futabayam (69) (later his achievement also surpassed Hakuho (63) and Tiyonofuji (53)). The winning streak was interrupted due to an annoying judicial error, which caused a scandal. Since then, a video repetition has been introduced to allow judges to resolve disputed cases.

Tycho ended his career in May 1971, although his result in March was more than good (12-3, jun-yusyo), and in May after four fights he had a score of 3-1. The last straw was the second defeat this year from the young and promising Takanohana Kensi (the future record holder for being in the rank of Odzek and the father of Yokozun Takanohana Koji ).

Immediately after the end of his career, Taiho, as an exceptional yokozuna, received a personalized coaching license. In December of the same 1971, he separated from his native school and headed the Taiho Bei school. Coaching success was moderate. Over the 32-year history of the school, 154 students passed through it , 14 of them attained sekitori status, 5 rose to makuuti, 2 to sanyaka. On account of Taiho Bay fighters: 10 victories over great champions (kinbosi), 5 special prizes (1 gino-sy, 2 shukun-se, 2 canto-se) and 27 small cups (6 dzyure, 5 makushita, 6 sandamme, 6 jenidan, 4 jenokuti). Among the fighters of the school was Rojo , who later achieved the title of komusubi. ^[3] In the same place, he was interning and Hakurozan was going to join this school, which, however, became impossible at the last moment due to the introduction of the “one foreigner to school” restriction. After retiring and transferring affairs to his son-in-law and the most titled of his students, Ex-sekivake Osutsu Takeshi (who took the coaching name Otakee), Taiho nevertheless retained ties with the school.

As a coaching license holder, Taiho was a member of the Sumo Association. In 1978 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association, of which he was a member for over 15 years. Until 1994, he was responsible for conducting regional tournaments (i.e. Haru, Nagoya and Kyushu basyo). From 1994 to 1996 he was in charge of Kosyujo (school for training beginners sumoori). In 2005, upon reaching the age of 65 (the age limit for the license holder of the ojakata), he retired. In 2005-2008, he held the honorary position of Director of the Sumo Museum at Kokugikan (Sumo Palace in Tokyo). ^[four]

In 1966 he married the daughter of the owner of a traditional Japanese hotel .

In February 1977, Taiho suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed, and with the help of an intensive rehabilitation program, he was able to partially recover. ^[five]

Taiho was interested in the fate of the lost father. In his declining years, he maintained ties with Ukraine. In 2002, he visited his father's homeland and allowed local sumo lovers to hold a cup in Ukraine in his name. ^[2]

In 2011 , during a visit to Japan of President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich , he was awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit, III degree. ^{[6] [7]}

He died on January 19, 2013 from ventricular tachycardia ^[8] . It is symbolic that in less than two weeks, the hey was closed, followed by Taiho ^[9] .

In July 2015, he became the first Sumo wrestler to become an honorary citizen of Japan. A total of 21. In his youth he was considered one of the most beautiful men in the country of the Rising Sun. ^{[ significance of fact? ]}

• Ivanov O. “Sumo. Living traditions of ancient Japan. ” - M., Style MG, 2004. ISBN 5-8131-0062-8

• Performance statistics
• Yaroslav Kotyshov. Yokodzuna Ivan (Unsolved) . lenta.ru (January 22, 2013). The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 3, 2013.