Wakatakamoto Wataru

There is very little in the record here, and I would rather admit that than pretend otherwise. Wakatakamoto Wataru is a rikishi born in December 1991; even his home prefecture is blank in the data I have. What the name itself signals to anyone who follows sumo is a family — he is one of a set of wrestling brothers competing under related ring names in the modern era. 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 you still have to walk onto the clay and wrestle your own bouts. Most careers in sumo are made of that kind of unrecorded effort — wrestlers who sustain the sport without ever headlining it. This entry is thin, but the work behind it almost certainly was not.

Name (English)

Wakatakamoto Wataru

Name (Japanese)

若隆元渡

Reading

わかたかもと わたる

Born

December 29, 1991 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

Occupation

rikishi

• 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

2026-08-07

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.