Saitama Sakae High School Campus
Saitama Sakae High School (埼玉栄高等学校) is a private junior and senior high school located in Saitama-city, Saitama Prefecture. The school was founded as a senior high school on February 2, 1972, by the Gakko Hojin Satoe Gakuen, a Japanese school corporation created in 1971 by Eitaro Sato.
Sumo Club Overview[]
Saitama Sakae Alumni with their Saitama Sakae kesho-mawashi
The school is regularly referred to as a "sumo power house", with more than a dozen wrestlers graduating from the school having reached the status of sekitori. Every year, several students from the Saitama Sakae sumo club decide to become professionals, and the school regularly produces around five professional wrestlers a year. The school usually gives one kesho-mawashi (ceremonial apron) to each student who becomes a sekitori.
Since Goeido, 26 alumni have received an apron. Between 2019 and 2022, the school raised six different high-school yokozuna. In July 2022, 14 out of the 70 sekitori in professional sumo were alumni from Saitama Sakae sumo club, and in July of the following year, 11 of the 42 makuuchi (sumo's top division) wrestlers were from the high school. The club's current director, Michinori Yamada, is a graduate of Nihon University and amateur yokozuna. He has managed the club since 1988.
List[]
- Names in bold indicate a still active wrestler.
- Green row indicates wrestler reached the elite sekitori ranks.
| Ring Name | Real Name | Stable | Debut | Highest Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tochisakae | Atsushi Okamoto | Kasugano | 1993.01 | Maegashira 1 |
| Dewataira | Shinichi Taira | Dewanoumi | 1997.03 | Juryo 4 |
| Daishodai | Tsuyoshi Nishino | Oitekaze | 1998.03 | Juryo 1 |
| Hayateumi | Naohito Saito | Oitekaze | 1998.03 | Sekiwake |
| Hisanohana | Hisashi Takahashi | Tagonoura | 2000.01 | Makushita 45 |
| Daishoma | Takahito Saeki | Oitekaze | 2001.01 | Makushita 4 |
| Hamaeiko | Tetsuya Ishida | Onoe | 2003.09 | Makushita 38 |
| Tokio | Yoshiki Mizuno | Kise | 2004.01 | Makushita 22 |
| Homasho | Yosuke Yamamoto | Shikoroyama | 2004.03 | Komusubi |
| Goeido | Gotaro Sawai | Sakaigawa | 2005.01 | Ozeki |
| Maeta | Masaru Maeta | Shibatayama | 2005.03 | Makushita 3 |
| Daishoyu | Marvin Lee Sano Jr. | Oitekaze | 2006.01 | Makushita 18 |
| Kiyoseumi | Takayuki Ichihara | Kise | 2007.01 | Maegashira 13 |
| Yamamotoyama | Ryuichi Yamamoto | Onoe | 2007.01 | Maegashira 9 |
| Akiseyama | Mitsuhiko Fukao | Kise | 2008.01 | Maegashira 12 |
| Keitenkai | Kosei Kei | Onomatsu | 2008.01 | Juryo 11 |
| Myogiryu | Yasunari Miyamoto | Sakaigawa | 2009.05 | Sekiwake |
| Sengaku | Daisuke Sasaki | Kise | 2010.01 | Makushita 13 |
| Ikeru | Kenta Ikeru | Onomatsu | 2010.11 | Makushita 18 |
| Jokoryu | Takayuki Sakuma | Kise | 2011.05 | Komusubi |
| Sakaefuji | Yasuhide Masuda | Sakaigawa | 2011.05 | Sandanme 72 |
| Shineiyama | Masaya Shinzato | Sakaigawa | 2011.05 | Makushita 21 |
| Daieisho | Hayato Takanishi | Oitekaze | 2012.01 | Sekiwake |
| Hidenoumi | Takuya Iwasaki | Kise | 2012.05 | Maegashira 6 |
| Bushozan | Kotaro Fujiwara | Fujishima | 2014.01 | Maegashira 12 |
| Narumi | Satoshi Narumi | Onomatsu | 2014.01 | Sandanme 20 |
| Tsurugisho | Kentaro Abiko | Oitekaze | 2014.01 | Maegashira 6 |
| Shiden | Takumi Shiba | Kise | 2014.03 | Juryo 2 |
| Takakeisho | Takanobu Sato | Tokiwayama | 2014.09 | Ozeki |
| Kiyonoumi | Masakatsu Yamamoto | Tamanoi | 2014.11 | Makushita 44 |
| Kotonawa | Kaishi Nawa | Sadogatake | 2015.01 | Sandanme 29 |
| Tobizaru | Masaya Iwasaki | Oitekaze | 2015.01 | Komusubi |
| Hokutofuji | Daiki Nakamura | Hakkaku | 2015.03 | Komusubi |
| Tosamidori | Kota Mitsuuchi | Onomatsu | 2015.07 | Makushita 11 |
| Kotozakura | Masakatsu Kamatani | Sadogatake | 2015.11 | Ozeki |
| Genki | Shinnosuke Takemasa | Onomatsu | 2016.03 | Makushita 8 |
| Yago | Takanori Yago | Oshiogawa | 2017.05 | Maegashira 10 |
| Kotoshoho | Toshiki Tebakari | Sadogatake | 2017.11 | Maegashira 3 |
| Tosaeizan | Taisei Mitsumune | Onomatsu | 2017.11 | Sandanme 14 |
| Tochitaikai | Takaaki Tsukahara | Kasugano | 2017.11 | Maegashira 18 |
| Oho | Konosuke Naya | Otake | 2018.01 | Sekiwake |
| Nishinoryu | Ryutaro Shimomura | Sakaigawa | 2018.11 | Makushita 4 |
| Terutaka | Motohiro Hamasu | Onoe | 2018.11 | Sandanme 37 |
| Tochikamiyama | Ryuichi Kamiyama | Kasugano | 2019.01 | Makushita 3 |
| Kitanowaka | Daisuke Saito | Hakkaku | 2019.03 | Maegashira 14 |
| Hokutenkai | Sukhbat Galdan | Onoe | 2019.05 | Makushita 5 |
| Mudoho | Kosei Naya | Otake | 2019.11 | Juryo 14 |
| Nihonyanagi | Wataru Nihonyanagi | Onomatsu | 2019.11 | Makushita 12 |
| Naya | Takamori Naya | Otake | 2020.03 | Makushita 40 |
| Gonoyama | Toki Nishikawa | Takekuma | 2021.03 | Maegashira 2 |
| Goseiryu | Taketo Kimura | Takekuma | 2021.03 | Sandanme 44 |
| Kumanoryu | Takahiro Tatsuguchi | Takekuma | 2021.03 | Makushita 35 |
| Hitoshi | Hitoshi Sawada | Oitekaze | 2021.05 | Juryo 11 |
| Kotokenryu | Gantulga Bilguun | Sadogatake | 2021.11 | Makushita 8 |
| Kotoeiho | Taiki Tebakari | Sadogatake | 2022.01 | Juryo 7 |
| Wakanosho | Shoichiro Takeda | Tokiwayama | 2022.01 | Makushita 22 |
| Gohakuun | Sora Okano | Takekuma | 2022.11 | Sandanme 7 |
| Gonowaka | Kosuke Negishi | Takekuma | 2022.11 | Sandanme 47 |
| Kazeeidai | Kotaro Miura | Oshiogawa | 2022.11 | Sandanme 2 |
| Kototaiko | Nobuyuki Sato | Sadogatake | 2022.11 | Makushita 37 |
| Fujinoshin | Kanato Tsuru | Fujishima | 2022.11 | Sandanme 55 |
| Gonoumi | Shunsuke Saito | Takekuma | 2023.01 | Makushita 52 |
| Kobayashi | Arashi Kobayashi | Kasugano | 2023.01 | Sandanme 16 |
| Wakaikari | Seigo Saito | Isenoumi | 2023.01 | Juryo 9 |
| Haruyama | Mantaro Haruyama | Onoe | 2023.03 | Makushita 10 |
| Daimasakari | Ayato Onozawa | Oitekaze | 2024.01 | Makushita 22 |
| Shimizuumi | Kosei Miyazaki | Sakaigawa | 2024.05 | Makushita 52 |
| Gonosho | Gota Kimura | Takekuma | 2024.11 | Jonidan 32 |
| Goseimaru | Toranosuke Miyazaki | Takekuma | 2024.11 | Jonidan 73 |
| Ikarigata | Chugo Saito | Isenoumi | 2025.01 | Sandanme 23 |