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Ōtake stable (大嶽部屋,Ōtake-beya) is astable ofsumo wrestlers, part of the Nishonoseki group of stables.
The stable was established in 1971 asTaihō stable by the 48thyokozunaTaihō Kōki upon his retirement from wrestling. The stable branched off fromNishonoseki stable.The firstsekitori the stable produced wasShishihō in 1977. The most successful wrestler wasŌzutsu, who reached the rank ofsekiwake. In May 1981 Taihō was persuaded by the editor of the English language sumo magazineSumo World to accept a foreign wrestler, Philip Smoak ofTexas, who was with the stable for just two months.[1]
In 2003 Taihō passed control of the stable on to his son-in-law, formersekiwakeTakatōriki since Taihō was approaching the age for mandatory retirement from theJapan Sumo Association. As the name of Taihō was anichidai-toshiyori (one-generationelder name) it could not be passed on, so the stable was re-named Ōtake. In 2004, the RussianRohō reached the top division and achieved his highest rank ofkomusubi but he was dismissed from sumo in September 2008 after failing a test forcannabis.
In January 2010 the stable, along with theTakanohana,Ōnomatsu andMagaki stables, were ejected from the Nishonosekiichimon afterTakanohana declared his intention to run as an unofficial candidate in the elections to theSumo Association's board of directors. The ejected stables formed their own group, which gainedichimon status in 2014.[2][3] In 2018 the stable joined the Nishonosekiichimon.
In July 2010, Ōtake, the former Takatōriki, was dismissed from the Sumo Association for his involvement in a scandal over illegal betting. The stable was taken over by the formerjūryō wrestlerDairyū, who had been working as a coach at the stable under the name Futagoyama. In 2013, the EgyptianŌsunaarashi reached the top division in 2013 but he was forced to retire in March 2018 after being caught driving without a license.
As of May 2023, the stable had 13 active wrestlers.
The stable still displays the redtsuna that Taihō wore while performing hiskanreki dohyo-iri ceremony in 2000.[4]
In January 2018 a grandson of Taihō, Naya Kōnosuke, joined the stable.[5] Naya was promoted tojūryō for the January 2021 tournament and changed his name toŌhō. He is the second member of the stable to reachjūryō since the former Dairyū took over as head coach, following Ōsunaarashi.[6] Another grandson of Taihō,Mudohō Kōsei [ja], joined in November 2019 and was promoted tojūryō for the May 2025 tournament and a third,Naya Takamori [ja], joined in March 2020, but has not achievedsekitori status.
Many wrestlers at this stable take ring names orshikona that include the character 大 (read: ō or dai), which is used in the first character of the stable's name and also is in deference to the last two owners, whose formershikona also included this character. Examples of wrestlers who have incorporated this include Ōsunaarashi, Ōsuzuki, Daiseiryū and Dairyūki.
![Another grandson, Mudohō [ja]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fwikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aMudoho_Kosei2022015.jpg)
Tokyo,Kotō ward, Kiyosumi 2-8-3
3 minutes fromKiyosumi-shirakawa Station on theToei Ōedo Line andHanzōmon Line
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