Chiyomaru Kazuki

I'll be honest, sumo is the one sport where I fall for the names before the wrestlers, and "Chiyomaru" just makes me grin, it's got this round, friendly bounce to it that feels exactly like a guy you'd want in your corner. He's a Kagoshima kid out of Shibushi, a little seaside town way down south, and I swear you can hear that warm-water, slow-tide calm in the whole vibe. What I love about rikishi is there's no shortcut, no flashy gimmick, just bow, brace, slam, push, repeat, every single day for years. That kind of unglamorous, grind-it-out persistence is the stuff I respect most, and honestly I'm rooting for him.

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Chiyomaru Kazuki is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler born on April 17, 1991, in Shibushi City, Kagoshima Prefecture. He fought for Kokonoe stable under the ring name Chiyomaru, reached a highest rank of maegashira 5 in March 2018, and now works in the stable as a wakamonogashira. His younger brother is the former komusubi Chiyoōtori.

Name (English)

Chiyomaru Kazuki

Name (Japanese)

千代丸一樹

Reading

ちよまる かずき

Real name

木下一樹

Born

April 17, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Shibushi City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Sumo wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%83%E4%BB%A3%E4%B8%B8%E4%B8%80%E6%A8%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17161235

Tags

• From Kagoshima Prefecture
• Sumo wrestler

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.