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Isenoumi stable

伊勢ノ海部屋

Isenoumi stable is in Sengoku, Bunkyo ward, Tokyo, near Sengoku Station on the Toei Mita Line. Its head is the 12th Isenoumi, the former Maegashira 3 Kitakachidoki. According to Japanese Wikipedia, it belongs to the Tokitsukaze ichimon, and yokozuna Tanikaze Kajinosuke and Kashiwado Tsuyoshi are listed for the stable; yokozuna is the highest rank in sumo. The stable's own site says it has existed since the Horeki era of the 1750s, and its first master is named on the oldest surviving banzuke, of October 1757. Its page on the Japan Sumo Association site lists two sekitori in the September 2026 tournament banzuke.

Address〒112-0011 東京都文京区千石1-22-2
HeadIsenoumi (12th); former shikona Kitakachidoki; highest rank as an active wrestler: Maegashira 3
IchimonTokitsukaze ichimon (per Japanese Wikipedia)
FoundedNo founding year is stated by a source. The stable already existed in the Horeki era (1750s), and its first master, Isenoumi Godayu, is named on the oldest surviving banzuke, of October 1757. The stable disappeared after the January 1933 tournament, was re-established in May 1942 under the 9th Isenoumi, closed again when he died in August 1946, and was re-established in January 1949 by the 10th Isenoumi (former Maegashira 1 Kashiwado Hidetsuyo). In September 2011 the 12th Isenoumi (former Maegashira 3 Kitakachidoki) succeeded and moved the stable to Sengoku, Bunkyo-ku.
Nearest stationToei Mita Line Sengoku Station, exit A2 (都営三田線 千石駅 A2出口); 2 minutes on foot (per Japanese Wikipedia)

The stable's own site describes it as the oldest existing sumo stable, with a history going back to the Horeki era.

According to the stable's own site, yokozuna Tanikaze Kajinosuke came from the 2nd Isenoumi's stable and, together with Onogawa Kisaburo, received the first yokozuna licences in 1789 (Kansei 1).

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