Araiwa Kamenosuke was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese sumo

Sumo

is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

 wrestler from Tottori Prefecture

Tottori Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region. The capital is the city of Tottori. It is the least populous prefecture in Japan.- History :Before the Meiji Restoration, Tottori encompassed the old provinces of Hōki and Inaba...

. His highest rank was ōzeki.

Career

He made a debut in January 1894. He was promoted to the top makuuchi division in January 1897. He won six championships before the modern yusho

Yusho

A Yūshō is a tournament championship in sumo. It is awarded in each of the six annual honbasho or official tournaments, to the wrestler who wins the most number of bouts. Yūshō are awarded in all six professional sumo divisions...

 system was established. In two of these championship runs did not suffer a single defeat or draw.

In May 1900, he won a championship as sekiwake without a single defeat or draw but was not promoted to ozeki. The reason is said to be that he was small compared to other ōzeki.

In May 1905, he managed to reach ozeki, and won a championship without a single defeat or draw. However, he was finally never promoted to yokozuna. He retired from an active wrestler in January 1909. His winning average in the top makuuchi

Makuuchi

or is the top division of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers , ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous tournaments....

 division was over .800.

Top division record

• Championships from this period were unofficial
  
• There was no fusensho system until March 1927
  
• All top division wrestlers were usually absent on the 10th day until 1909

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 120%"
|-
!
!January
!May
|-
|1897
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West maegashira #8 (7-1-1-1draw)
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West maegashira #3 (6-1-1-2draws)
|-
|1898
|West Komusubi (7-1-1-1hold)
|West Sekiwake (6-2-1-1draw)
|-
|1899
|bgcolor=gray|Sat out
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West Komusubi (8-1-1)
|-
|1900
|West Sekiwake (4-2-4)
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West Sekiwake (9-0-1)
|-
|1901
|West Sekiwake (4-5-1)
|bgcolor=#66FF00|East Komusubi (8-1-1)
|-
|1902
|East Sekiwake (5-4-1)
|East Sekiwake (3-1-6)
|-
|1903
|East Komusubi (1-1-8)
|East maegashira #1 (4-3-3)
|-
|1904
|East maegashira #1 (6-1-1-1draw-1hold)
|East Komusubi (4-0-5-1hold)
|-
|1905
|East Komusubi (8-0-1-1draw)
|bgcolor=#66FF00|West Ozeki (9-0-1)
|-
|1906
|West Ozeki (1-1-8)
|West Ozeki (2-0-8)
|-
|1907
|East Ozeki (6-2-1-1draw)
|East Ozeki (4-1-5)
|-
|1908
|East Ozeki (5-1-2-2draws)
|East Ozeki (3-0-6-1draw)
|-
|1909
|bgcolor=gray|Retired
!x
|-

• The wrestler's East/West designation, rank, and win/loss record are listed for each tournament.
• A third figure in win-loss records represents matches sat-out during the tournament (usually due to injury)
• an X signifies the wrestler had yet to reach the top division at that point in his career or a tournament after he retired

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| Green Box=Tournament Championship
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See also

• List of past sumo wrestlers
• Glossary of sumo terms
  Glossary of sumo terms
  The following words are terms used in sumo wrestling in Japan. azukari : Hold. A kind of draw. After a mono-ii, the gyōji or the shimpan "holds" the result if it was too close to call...