Kitataiki Akeyoshi

Kitataiki Akeyoshi is one of those sumo wrestlers who flies a bit under the radar, which honestly makes him more interesting to me. Tokyo-born rikishi aren't as common as you'd think in a sport that tends to pull its talent from rural prefectures and overseas, so there's something quietly cool about a guy who grew up in the capital and still found his way into this ancient, demanding world. Sumo is brutally unglamorous from the inside — predawn training, strict hierarchy, your whole existence measured in centimeters of the rankings board — and anyone who grinds through that for years earns real respect from me, regardless of how high they climbed.

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Kitataiki Akeyoshi (born October 5, 1982) is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Machida, Tokyo. He wrestled for Kitanoumi stable (later Yamahibiki stable), reached a highest rank of maegashira 2 in May 2013, and is now the elder Onogawa and a YouTuber.

Name (English)

Kitataiki Akeyoshi

Name (Japanese)

北太樹明義

Reading

きたたいき あけよし

Real name

讃岐明義

Born

October 5, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Sumo wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E5%A4%AA%E6%A8%B9%E6%98%8E%E7%BE%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11401373

Tags

• From Tokyo
• 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.