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Hōchiyama Kōkan (born January 18, 1982 as Yukimi Munakata) is a former sumo wrestler from Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. He joined professional sumo in 2000. His highest rank was ''maegashira'' 14, achieved in 2006. After illness saw him demoted to the third ''makushita'' division in 2008, he returned to the second highest ''jūryō'' division in 2010 and the top ''makuuchi'' division in September 2011. After winning the Sandanme division he had just been demoted to in November 2013, he chose to retire. He is now a coach at Sakaigawa stable. ==Career== He was born in the city of Hirosaki (as was Wakanosato). Hōchiyama was a member of Kizukuri High School sumo club (also attended by Mainoumi) and he made his professional debut in March 2000. He joined the Nakadachi stable set up by former ''komusubi'' Ryogoku, which was subsequently renamed Sakaigawa stable. Hōchiyama took the ''jonokuchi'' championship with a perfect 7-0 record in his first tournament as a ''rikishi'' and he earned promotion to ''sandanme'' in November 2000 with another 7-0 score. However he found his opponents in the third ''makushita'' division much more difficult to deal with and his progress slowed. He narrowly missed out on promotion to the second highest ''jūryō'' division a number of times, recording 3-4 marks at ''makushita'' 1 in July 2004 and November 2005. After 24 tournaments in the third division he finally achieved promotion in January 2006 when a 4-3 score at ''makushita'' 4 was enough to reach ''jūryō''. He became the second member of his stable to reach ''sekitori'' status, following Iwakiyama, and the first to do it progressing through all the professional sumo divisions, Iwakiyama having made his debut in ''makushita''. Hōchiyama reached the top ''makuuchi'' division in only in three tournaments, after winning the ''jūryō'' championship in July 2006 with a 13-2 record. He could only manage five wins in his top division debut in September 2006 and was demoted back to ''jūryō''. He reappeared in ''makuuchi'' in May 2007 but after two more ''make-koshi'' or losing scores he fell back to the second division once again in September of that year. He just missed out on immediate promotion back to the top division after recording seven wins against eight losses at the rank of ''jūryō'' 1. However, restricted by diabetes, a disastrous performance of 2-13 at the rank of ''jūryō'' 6 in the March 2008 tournament (which was his sixth consecutive losing score) saw him demoted to the third division for May. After more than two years in ''makushita'', he finally returned to the ''sekitori'' ranks in July 2010 after scoring 5-2 at the rank of ''makushita'' 1 West in May. He came through with a winning record of 8-7, securing his ''kachi-koshi'' on the final day after four straight losses. He was one of seven ''rikishi'' from Sakaigawa stable ranked in ''jūryō'' in September 2010, the others being Iwakiyama, Goeido, Toyohibiki, Sadanoumi, Sadanofuji and Shironoryu. After a solid 9-6 at Juryo 5 in July 2011, he was promoted back to the top division for September after a 23 tournament absence - the fourth longest ever. He scored only 5-10 on his return and was immediately demoted back to ''juryo'', but he ensured with an 8-7 score at ''Juryo'' 1 in January 2012 that he was promoted to ''makuuchi'' once again for the March 2012 tournament. However he failed in his fifth attempt at a top division ''kachi-koshi'', finishing on 4–11. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hōchiyama Kōkan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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