Totiodzan Yuichiro

Kageyama was given to sumo at a very early age, because sumo was very popular in the area where he lived, and his parents were sumo fans. He joined a local sumo club. At first, he really did not like sumo, he did not like the rigidity and constant training that was necessary. Many times, he wanted to quit, but over time he became involved and began to enjoy sumo, achieved some success and transferred to Meitoku Gijyuku school, known in Kochi Prefecture for its strong sumo school. After becoming a junior high school student in this school, he transferred to the Saitama Sakae school located in Greater Tokyo , where he continued his training. ^[2] . The future Ozaki Goeydo already studied at this school. Here began a long history of their confrontation. As he approached graduation, Totiozan wanted to go to university, but eventually decided to enter professional sumo right from high school.

Several different schools claimed Totiodzan, but in the end he chose the school of Kasugano . In March 2007, he debuted at Doha under his last name Kageyama. He quickly moved through the divisions, winning sandamme in the third lower division in November of that year. In September 2006, at the age of 19, he became a paid sekitori when he made his way to Dzyureo, receiving his wrestling name Totiodzan.

Having debuted in makuuti in March 2007, he fought for the championship title up to 14 days, having finished his performance at the debut tournament with a score of 11–4 and received a special Kanto-sho prize. This was followed by a shoulder injury and withdrawal on the tenth day of the July tournament. The next few tournaments he was at the bottom of the division, suffering from back pain, but in March 2008 he regained his form, showing a result of 11-4 and winning Gino-syo . After a series of victories and failures in tournaments according to the results of the January 2009 tournament 10-5, he achieved the rank of maegasira 2. In March 2009, he began the tournament with victories over three Odzek Kotosegiku , Harumafuji and Tietaykay and had a result of 7-3 after 10 days. After losing 4 matches in a row, he nevertheless achieved his make-up on the final day of the tournament.

That was enough to get into the sanyaku at the May tournament in the rank of komusubi . After the announcement of the results of the tournament, he convened a press conference at which he declared that he would like to win one more victory than his eternal rival Goeydo , who had just achieved the title of sekivake for the first time. They started their professional career at the same tournament, Totiodzan followed Goeydo in Dzyure and Makuuti, but won only once in six personal fights. In May 2009, both showed a result of 6-9 and became ordinary maegasira. In July, 2-13 followed, but one of his victories was over Goeydo.

Totiodzan returned to the sanyak after the March 2010 tournament, which he finished with a score of 11–4, after which he was again given the title of komusubi. A good performance in July 9-6 allowed for the first time to rise to the title of sekivake. In his first tournament as a sekivake, Totiozan showed a very good result of 11–4, for the second time he won the prize for technical excellence Gyno-syo . However, two make- ups in a row in subsequent tournaments and unsuccessful 4-11 in May 2011 knocked him down. He withdrew from the November tournament due to an ankle injury on his right foot. Returning from injury, Totiodzan in the first tournament of 2012 showed a good fight with the result of 11-4, stopping one step away from receiving his first prize for Kanto-sho , showed morale, losing to Gagamaru on the last day of the tournament, victory over which would allow him to take the prize . ^[3]

In May 2012, Totiodzan lost in the play-off final of the Emperor's Cup Aminiciki , After they both finished the tournament with a score of 12-3. It was the first in the history of the playoffs, the participants of which were only maegasira. This defeat did not allow Totiozan to become the first ethnic Japanese to win yusho in makuuti since 2006, when he defeated Totiadzuma . ^[4] . In the next tournament, Totiodzan regained the sekivake title. In September, he defeated Hakuho , the first time out of 15 bouts, received the first gold star Kimboshi and his first prize for outstanding performance Syukun-sho .

Since the beginning of 2013, Totiodzan mainly resides with Sanyaku, but there have not been any serious applications for promotion to Odzek yet. After a temporary drop to the ordinary maegasira due to injury, he took his second gold star from Harumafuji in November 2014. In July 2015, he defeated both yokozun, who took part in the basics - Hakuho and Kakuro , and won his second prize for outstanding performance of Shukun-syo .

Most often, Totiodzan wins using techniques ( kimarite ) of yoriri , osidasi , yoritaosi , and ositaosi . This means that he basically wins simply by pushing his opponents out of the circle or knocking over with mawashi and also pushes to the chest. He rarely uses throws. His favorite grab mawashi migi-yotsu is a grab, in which his left hand is above the opponent’s hand, and the right hand between the opponent’s hands.

• Official data of the wrestler Totiodzan Yichiro on the website of the Sumo Association (eng.)
• Performance statistics