Bushūyama Takashi
武州山 隆士
Personal information
Born	Takashi Yamauchi (1976-05-21)May 21, 1976 (age 48) Aomori,Aomori Prefecture
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	170 kg (370 lb; 27 st)
Career
Stable	Fujishima
Record	416–427–25
Debut	January, 1999
Highest rank	Maegashira 3 (November, 2009)
Retired	January 2013
Elder name	Matsuchiyama
Championships	2 (Jūryō)
* Up to date as of 16 March 2022.

Bushūyama Takashi (武州山 隆士, born May 21, 1976) is a Japanese former sumo wrestler fromAomori,Aomori Prefecture. He made his professional debut in January 1999. At the age of 32, he was promoted to the topmakuuchi division in the November 2008 tournament. His highest rank wasmaegashira 3. He is now a sumo coach.

Bushuyama was a contemporary ofWakanosato andTakamisakari, both also from Aomori. He was a member of the sumo club atDaito Bunka University, and reached the round of 16 in the 1998All Japan Sumo Championship.^[1] As his club did not have many members, they regularly trained atMusashigawa stable, and this was theheya he joined upon entering the professional ranks. He made his debut in the same tournament asAsashōryū. He was givenspecial dispensation to begin his career in the third highestmakushita division because of his achievements in amateur sumo, but in 2001 fell to thejonidan division because of an elbow injury. He reached the second highestjūryō division in September 2003, the first member of his university to attainsekitori status.

In 2005 he fell back tomakushita, and did not return tojūryō until January 2007. He won thejūryō division championship for the first time in July 2008, with a 12–3 record. He followed up with a 10–5 score in September. In November 2008, he was finally promoted to the top division. It had taken him 59 tournaments to win promotion to the top division from his debut, which at the time was the longest of any former collegiate champion (this dubious honor is now held byTsurugidake). At 32 years and five months he was also the fourth oldest wrestler to make his top division debut since the end of World War II.

Bushuyama scored eight wins in his top division debut and was promoted tomaegashira 6 for the January 2009 tournament. However, a very disappointing 2–13 record there meant he was demoted back to thejūryō division for the March 2009 tournament. He scored 8–7 there, enough for an immediate top division return. He recovered from 1–5 down in May to score 9–6 atmaegashira 15. In the September tournament he produced his best top division score of 10–5, narrowly failing to win aspecial prize after being beaten on the final day. He was promoted to his highest rank ofmaegashira 3 for November 2009. He defeatedozekiKotomitsuki in this tournament, but recorded amake-koshi score of 6–9. In January 2010 he produced a poor 2–13 record, the same score from the same rank as the previous Hatsu basho in 2009. However, on this occasion he remained in the top division for the following tournament, albeit at the very lowest rank ofMaegashira 16 West. He lost his top division status after scoring only 4–11 in March, but won his secondjūryō championship with an 11–4 record in May and secured an immediate return tomakuuchi. He was demoted tojuryo again after the November 2010 tournament, and lostsekitori status altogether after the May 2012 tournament, never to regain it.

Bushuyama announced his retirement after the January 2013basho. He became anelder of theJapan Sumo Association under the name Onogawa Oyakata. Hisdanpatsu-shiki or official retirement ceremony was held in theRyogoku Kokugikan October 2013, with around 300 guests and his stablemaster, formeryokozunaMienoumi, making the final cut of histopknot. He works as a coach at his old stable, now renamedFujishima stable. In January 2016 he switched to the Kiyomigata elder name (owned by active wrestlerTochiozan.) In May 2020 he switched to the Kasugayamakabu (owned byIkioi).^[2] In May 2021 he acquired the Matsuchiyama name following the retirement of the formerBanryūyama.^[3]

Bushuyama favoured yotsu-sumo or a grappling style, preferring ahidari-yotsu or right hand outside, left hand inside grip on his opponentsmawashi. His most common winningtechnique wasyori-kiri (force-out) followed byoshi dashi (push out) andyori-taoshi (force out and down).

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