Tōki Susumu

Honestly, the ring name alone does most of the heavy lifting here — Tōki Susumu, written with the characters for "fighting fang" and "advance," sounds less like a name and more like a declaration of war before the guy has even stepped onto the dohyo. He climbed as high as komusubi and famously wore long sideburns into the ring, but what really gets me is the sheer fact of carrying a ring name that heavy, training through the relentless hierarchy of a sumo stable, and stepping into that ring day after day — there's an entire life's worth of drama baked into that commitment, and I've got nothing but respect for it.

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Tōki Susumu is a former Japanese sumo wrestler born on July 4, 1974, in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. His shikona (ring name), written with characters meaning "fighting fang," reflects the combative spirit associated with the sumo tradition. Wrestling for Takasago stable, he debuted in January 1991, reached a highest rank of komusubi, retired in 2006, and left the Japan Sumo Association as an elder in 2023. His Wikipedia entry is listed on the Japanese-language Wikipedia.

Name (English)

Tōki Susumu

Name (Japanese)

闘牙進

Reading

とうき すすむ

Real name

玉城順

Born

July 4, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Sumo wrestler (rikishi)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%97%98%E7%89%99%E9%80%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1518948

Tags

• From Chiba 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.