The is a

stable A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept. It most commonly means a building that is divided into separate stalls for individual animals and livestock. There are many different types of stables in use today; the ...

sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by thr ...

wrestlers, part of the Dewanoumi ''

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'' or group of stables. It is an off-shoot of the better known stable of the same name set up by former ''

yokozuna , or , is the top division of the six divisions of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers (''rikishi''), ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous tournaments. This is the on ...

Mienoumi is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Matsusaka, Mie. He was the 57th ''yokozuna'' of the sport. After retiring he founded the Musashigawa stable and was a chairman of the Japan Sumo Association. He was the first rikishi in histo ...

in 1981, which is currently known as Fujishima stable. Former ''yokozuna'' Musashimaru branched off from that stable in April 2013 after taking on the elder name of his former head coach and started a new stable using the Musashigawa name. It is located in the same building as the defunct

Nakamura stable was a stable of sumo wrestlers, one of the Takasago group of stables. It was established in its modern incarnation in May 1986 by Fujizakura of the Takasago stable. The stable's first ''sekitori'' was in November 1995. It did not produce any ''ma ...

. Musashigawa stable is the second stable in sumo history to be founded by a foreign-born former sumo wrestler after Takamiyama's

Azumazeki stable was a stable of sumo wrestlers, part of the Takasago group of stables. It was founded in February 1986 by the Hawaiian born Takamiyama of the Takasago stable in Higashi–Komagata, Sumida, Tokyo. It was the first stable ever to be run by a fo ...

. The head coach's nephew, Fiamalu Penitani, was a wrestler at the stable under the ''

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'' of Musashikuni, reaching the ''

makushita Professional sumo as administered by the Japan Sumo Association is divided into six ranked divisions. Wrestlers are promoted and demoted within and between these divisions based on the merit of their win–loss records in official tournaments. For ...

'' division, but he retired in 2019 due to injury problems. The stable was also home to the half Japanese, half African-American wrestler Ichiro Young ( Wakaichiro). Musashigawa stable began with just four wrestlers, but had expanded to 19 by May 2019. In January 2023 the stable had 16 wrestlers.

Owner

*2013-present: 15th Musashigawa ('' iin'', the 67th ''yokozuna'' Musashimaru)

Notable active wrestlers

*None

Coach

*None

Referee

*Kimura Keitaro (''jonidan'' ''

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'', real name Keita Akiba)

Hairdresser

*Tokoken (second class ''

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'')

Location and access

Tokyo, Edogawa Ward, Chūō 4-1-10
10 minute walk from

Shin-Koiwa Station is a railway station in the Shin-Koiwa neighborhood, in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Shin-Koiwa Station is served by the Sōbu Line (Rapid) and the Chūō-Sōbu Line. Station layout The s ...

on Sōbu Line

References

External links

Japan Sumo Association profilehomepage for Musashigawa stable
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