Kazuo Katsuramoto

There's something almost mythic about coming out of Mashike — a tiny herring town on the northern edge of Hokkaido — and making it all the way to Chuo University and then onto both a baseball diamond and a wrestling mat. Kazuo Katsuramoto was that guy: born in 1934, Virgo, apparently not content with being good at just one grueling sport. The Showa-era athlete archetype was genuinely different — you did whatever the body could handle and nobody thought it was unusual. Today we'd call it cross-training and write think-pieces about it; back then it was just Tuesday. Mashike itself is the kind of place that builds a certain stubbornness into you — long winters, hard work, not a lot of hand-holding — and I think that comes through in a career that covered two completely different athletic disciplines. Records from that era are thin, which is a shame, but the outline alone is enough to make you respect the guy.

Kazuo Katsuramoto is a Japanese athlete born on September 5, 1934, in Mashike, Hokkaido. He was active as both a baseball player and an amateur wrestler, a dual sporting career that was not uncommon among Japanese athletes of his era. He attended Chuo University, indicating a level of academic achievement alongside his athletic pursuits. Detailed records of his competitive career remain largely undocumented in public sources.

Name (English)

Kazuo Katsuramoto

Name (Japanese)

桂本和夫

Reading

かつらもと かずお

Born

September 5, 1934 (age 91)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog (戌)

Origin

Mashike, Hokkaido, Japan

Height

173cm

Occupation

Baseball Player / Amateur Wrestler

University

Chuo University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%82%E6%9C%AC%E5%92%8C%E5%A4%AB

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Baseball Player
• Amateur 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.