Asahiyama stable (2016)


Asahiyama stable is a stable of sumo wrestlers, part of the Isegahama ichimon It is located in Chiba prefecture.
The stable's predecessor in name had a very long history in sumo, however the current incarnation is unrelated to it. A year after the closing of the previous incarnation of the stable, the retired former Kotonishiki, after several years of borrowing elder names, finally acquired the vacant elder name of Asahiyama, and set up his own stable, a dream he had had from long before. He financed a building to house his stable in Kamagaya, Chiba near Kunugiyama Station on some land he had procured, quite near the stable he originally wrestled for, Sadogatake of the Nishonoseki ichimon. Owner Asahiyama's hope was that he could bring together the demanding training he learned as an active wrestler in his original stable, Sadogatake and the warmheartedness towards trainees that he later learned as a coach at Oguruma stable.
He took three low ranked wrestlers from the aforementioned Oguruma stable to join his new stable.. In January 2017 the stable left the Nishonoseki ichimon and joined the Isegahama ichimon It was announced in February 2017 that Asahiyama Oyakata's 18 year old son, Akihide, would be joining the stable as a new recruit upon graduation from high school in March. He fights under the name Wakaseido. In January 2020, it had eight wrestlers, with no sekitori yet.

Ring name conventions

Currently, the wrestlers who branched out to the new stable with the former Kotonishiki have taken shikona starting with "Asahi", meaning morning sun, and which are the first two characters in the owner's elder name and that of the stable.

Owner

Chiba, Kamagaya City, Kunigiyama 2-1-5
5 minute walk from Kunugiyama Station on Shin-Keisei Line