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[sumo] Sekiwake Tamanoumi Daitaro
Ah...Sekiwake Tamanoumi Daisaburo/Daitaro. If there
was any rikishi you wanted to stay away from when he
got drunk, this guy has been it. He loved to go for
drinking and getting drunk and then got himself
involved in countless fights with cab drivers, bar
patrons, restaurant owners, police and military patrol
officers. And the last was his downfall with the
Kyokai but he was able to come back because of the
war.
During Ozumo's Shanghai Tour in 1940, he managed to
get totally drunk again and got into a fight. As this
was a time when Japanese troops were stationed in
China, MPs rushed in to stop the fight and of course
having rather superhuman strength he just about
pummelled almost everyone to death. They were going to
execute him right there and then but Haguroyama and
Tamanoumi (Umekichi) pleaded with them to spare his
life by having out of Ozumo.
He was subsequently dispatched to Guadalcanal in 1942
where he contacted Malaria and dysentry and sent back
home. After his recovery he was then sent to Siberia
and became a POW. He escaped to China by hopping onto
a freight train and smuggled himself back in Japan by
masquarading as a Chinese.
After coming home to Japan while working for a
shipyard, he still could not forget about sumo and
trained others at a company sumo gym. In 1950 he got a
call from Nishonoseki Beya to come back as they would
lift the ban so he returned and continued on till
1961.
So it is true that he was asked to come back after he
was expelled but during and subsequent years after the
war, the kyokai lost quite a few of rikishis either by
death or too sick to continue when they came back.
They also lost a potential pool of young boys in the
war so they needed every experienced or potenial
rikishi desparately to continue their operations. Even
Tamanoumi Daisaburo was only 60Kg when he came back
from the South Pacifit. So I believe there were quite
a few exceptions found in those days.
But as for Tamaoumi Daisaburo/Daitaburo, he must have
had nine lives. But on the morning of September 27,
1987, the 13th anniversary of the previous Tamanoumi's
death, he collapsed and died. He was 64 years old.
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.....Jonosuke
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