Asasekiryū Tarō

The name alone hits different — Asasekiryu Taro, a red dragon rising at dawn. Born in the summer of 1981, Leo season, and honestly that tracks: there's something solar and defiant about anyone who chooses to make their entire career out of throwing another enormous human being off a platform. Sumo doesn't give you highlight reels or press tours — it gives you the clay, the silence, and maybe a face full of sand. What I respect is the commitment to that unglamorous grind: hundreds of practice bouts in a heya before anyone outside the sport learns your name, and when the match is over, win or lose, you bow and walk off like it's just another Tuesday. The year of the Rooster, too — stubborn, precise, doesn't quit. I don't know every detail of his record, but the ring name carries weight all on its own, and that's not nothing.

Asasekiryū Tarō is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler born on August 7, 1981. He competes in Japan's professional sumo circuit and is known by his ring name (shikona) Asasekiryū Tarō. Further biographical details, including his home prefecture and agency affiliation, are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Asasekiryū Tarō

Name (Japanese)

朝赤龍太郎

Reading

あさせきりゅう たろう

Born

August 7, 1981 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Sumo wrestler

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%9D%E8%B5%A4%E9%BE%8D%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E

Tags

• Sumo wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.