Tamaasuka Daisuke

Honestly, when I hear "rikishi," my brain immediately goes to that image of two enormous guys colliding at the tachi-ai and the whole arena holding its breath — and knowing Tamaasuka Daisuke lived that life, day after day, makes me respect him in a quietly profound way. Born in Atsuta, Nagoya in January 1983 — same year as me, so I feel that generational pull — he grew up in the shadow of the Atsuta Shrine, and I like to think there's something appropriately ancient and grounded about that origin story for a sumo man. Sumo careers aren't built on Instagram metrics, they're built on ten thousand practice falls in a cold stable at six in the morning.

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Tamaasuka Daisuke is a Japanese former sumo wrestler born on January 26, 1983, in Atsuta Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. He competed in professional sumo under the ring name Tamaasuka Daisuke. Wrestling for Kataonami stable from 1998, he reached maegashira 9 in 2005, won two jūryō championships, retired in 2016, and is now the elder Ōtake.

Name (English)

Tamaasuka Daisuke

Name (Japanese)

玉飛鳥大輔

Reading

たまあすか だいすけ

Real name

高橋大輔

Born

January 26, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Atsuta Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Sumo wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%89%E9%A3%9B%E9%B3%A5%E5%A4%A7%E8%BC%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7680519

Tags

• From Aichi 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.