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Ōtsukasa Nobuhide (born February 18, 1971 as Nobuhide Ōuchi) is a former sumo wrestler from Miki, Hyōgo, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in 1993. The highest rank he reached was ''maegashira'' 4. He retired in March 2009 and is now a sumo coach. ==Career== Ōtsukasa began sumo whilst at Miki Middle School and was a member of Ichikawa High School's sumo club, where he won national high school sumo championships. He continued his amateur sumo career at Nihon University. Ōtsukasa was recruited by the former ''sekiwake'' Tochitsukasa, also a Nihon University alumni and head of the then newly formed Irumagawa stable. He made his professional debut in March 1993. Due to his amateur achievements he was given ''makushita tsukedashi'' status, meaning he could enter in the third highest ''makushita'' division. Initially fighting under his real name of Ōuchi, he won the ''makushita'' championship in only his second tournament, with a perfect 7-0 record. However, it was not until January 1996 that he became a ''sekitori'' by earning promotion to the second highest ''jūryō'' division, upon which he adopted the ''shikona'' of Ōtsukasa. He made the top ''makuuchi'' division for the first time in September 1999. The 39 tournaments it took him from his professional debut to reach ''makuuchi'' is the third slowest amongst former collegiate wrestlers. During his ''sekitori'' career (75 tournaments in total) Ōtsukasa was a classic "elevator" ''rikishi'', too good for ''jūryō'' but not quite good enough for the top division. He was promoted to ''makuuchi'' no less than eleven times in total. This is two less than the record of 13 promotions held by Oshio, a record Ōtsukasa said he would have liked to break. Ōtsukasa was ranked in the top division for three of the six tournaments held in 2007 but did not manage a majority of wins against losses in ''makuuchi'' after July 2004. His last promotion in March 2008 made him the third oldest postwar wrestler to earn promotion to the top division at 37 years. He won his first four bouts on his final return but then lost ten in a row to finish with a 5-10 score. After the retirement of Kotonowaka in November 2005 he was the oldest man in the ''sekitori'' ranks (the top two divisions). Restricted by a shoulder injury, he produced only one winning record after January 2008. After the 2009 Haru basho Ōtsukasa would have dropped out of Juryo (see retirement below). His departure left Tosanoumi, who is two days under a year younger than Ōtsukasa, as the oldest active ''sekitori''. 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「Ōtsukasa Nobuhide」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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