is a stable

Heya

In sumo wrestling, a heya , usually translated into English as stable, is an organization of sumo wrestlers where they train and live. All wrestlers in professional sumo must belong to one. There are currently 49 heya , all but four of which belong to one of five ichimon...

 of 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...

 wrestlers, one of the Nishonoseki group of stables. In its current form it dates from 1992 when it was revived by Daijuyama of the Futagoyama stable. The previous version of the stable had been wound up in 1985 when former yokozuna Wajima

Wajima Hiroshi

is a former sumo wrestler and professional wrestler from Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan. He was sumo's 54th Yokozuna. He won a total of 14 tournament championships or yusho during his career and retired in March 1981....

 was forced to leave the Japan Sumo Association

Japan Sumo Association

The is the body that operates and controls professional sumo wrestling in Japan under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Rikishi , gyōji , tokoyama , and yobidashi , are all on the Association's payroll, but the organisation is run...

. The Mongolian rikishi Koryu

Kōryū Tadaharu

Kōryū Tadaharu is a Mongolian former sumo wrestler from Ulan Bator. His highest rank was maegashira 11. He was forced to retire from sumo in 2011 after being found guilty of match-fixing.-Early years and entry into sumo:...

 became the revived Hanakago's first sekitori

Sekitori

A sekitori is a sumo wrestler who is ranked in one of the top two professional divisions: makuuchi and juryo.Currently there are 70 rikishi in these divisions...

 in January 2007 and in July 2008 reached 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.

Former wrestlers

• Wakanohana Kanji I
  Wakanohana Kanji I
  was a sumo wrestler, the sport's 45th Yokozuna .Wakanohana's younger brother was the late former ozeki Takanohana Kenshi and he was the uncle of Takanohana Koji and Wakanohana Masaru...
  
   (Yokozuna)
• Wajima
  Wajima Hiroshi
  is a former sumo wrestler and professional wrestler from Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan. He was sumo's 54th Yokozuna. He won a total of 14 tournament championships or yusho during his career and retired in March 1981....
  
   (Yokozuna)
• Kaiketsu
  Kaiketsu Masateru
  Kaiketsu Masateru is a former sumo wrestler, who reached the second highest rank of ōzeki on two separate occasions. He also won two top division tournament championships...
  
   (Ozeki)
• Daigo (Sekiwake)
• Arase
  Arase Nagahide
  , real name was a sumo wrestler from Ino, Agawa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. An amateur sumo champion at Nihon University, he made his professional debut in 1972....
  
  (Sekiwake)

Gyoji

• Mitsunosuke Kimura (Makoto Kawahara) - juryo referee
• Kazuma Kimura (Kazuma Okada) - jonokuchi referee

External links

• Hanakago stable page at Japan Sumo Association (English) (Japanese)