Wakatakamoto Wataru

Wakatakamoto Wataru, born in December 1991 and raised in Fukushima City, is a former sumo wrestler who reached a highest rank of makushita 7 east, retired in May 2026, and now works as a wakamono-gashira at Arashio stable. What the name itself signals to anyone who follows sumo is a family: his younger brothers are the sekiwake Wakamotoharu and Wakatakakage, and his grandfather was the komusubi Wakabayama. That situation interests me more than any statistic would. Sumo is brutally hierarchical: the banzuke ranks every wrestler against every other, publicly, six times a year, and being brothers buys you exactly nothing. You share a name, a stable culture, and a childhood, and then the sport sorts you into different tiers and prints it on a wall. Some years the attention flows to one sibling and not the others, and he still had to walk onto the clay and wrestle his own bouts. Most careers in sumo are made of that kind of unrecorded effort — wrestlers who sustain the sport without ever headlining it.

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Name (English)

Wakatakamoto Wataru

Name (Japanese)

若隆元渡

Reading

わかたかもと わたる

Real name

大波渡

Born

December 29, 1991 (age 34)

Origin

Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

rikishi

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%A5%E9%9A%86%E5%85%83%E6%B8%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56059624

Tags

• rikishi

Last updated

September 26, 2026

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