Asahiyama Stable (2016)

Asahiyama stable 2017 front — Asahiyama stable

Asahiyama stable (朝日山部屋, Asahiyama-beya) is a stable of sumo wrestlers, part of the Isegahama ichimon (or group of stables). It was set up in June 2016 by former sekiwake Kotonishiki, who branched off from Oguruma stable. In January 2017 the stable left the Nishonoseki ichimon and joined the Isegahama ichimon (to which the previous incarnation of Asahiyama stable had belonged).

As of January 2023 it has 7 active sumo wrestlers.

History[]

The stable's predecessor in name had a very long history in sumo, however the current incarnation is unrelated to it. A year after the closing of the previous incarnation of the stable, the retired former Kotonishiki, after several years of borrowing elder names, finally acquired the vacant elder name of Asahiyama, and set up his own stable, a dream he had had from long before. He financed a building to house his stable in Kamagaya, Chiba near Kunugiyama Station on some land he had procured, quite near the stable he originally wrestled for, Sadogatake of the Nishonoseki ichimon. Owner Asahiyama's hope was that he could bring together the demanding training he learned as an active wrestler in his original stable, Sadogatake (one of the strongest stables in sumo) and the warmheartedness towards trainees that he later learned as a coach at Oguruma stable.

He took three low ranked wrestlers from the aforementioned Oguruma stable (which along with Sadogatake is also a member of the same Nishonoseki ichimon) to join his new stable. In January 2017 the stable left the Nishonoseki ichimon and joined the Isegahama ichimon(to which the previous incarnation of Asahiyama stable had belonged.) It was announced in February 2017 that Asahiyama Oyakata's 18 year old son, Akihide, would be joining the stable as a new recruit upon graduation from high school in March. He fights under the name Wakaseido. In January 2021, it had ten wrestlers, with no sekitori yet.

The stable recruited their first foreigner in 2016, when they recruited the future Asahiryu. Asahiryu reached Makushita 23 before retiring in January of 2019. Asahiyama stable recruited Bolivian, Daniel Velez Garcia, who joined as a Japanese. Garcia would take the shikona Kirameki. As of January 2021, Kirameki is the highest ranked rikishi of the stable.

Ring Name Conventions[]

Currently, the wrestlers who branched out to the new stable with the former Kotonishiki have taken shikona starting with "Asahi", (朝日) meaning morning sun, and which are the first two characters in the owner's elder name and that of the stable.