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Takanohana stable

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Takanohana stable was dissolved in October 2018 and no longer exists under this name. According to Japanese Wikipedia, Futagoyama stable was renamed Takanohana stable on 2004-02-01, when Takanohana, the 65th yokozuna (the highest rank in sumo), took it over. The Japan Sumo Association approved the transfer of all its members to Senganoura stable on 2018-10-01, and Senganoura stable is now Minatogawa stable. The yokozuna and ozeki (the second-highest rank) listed for it, including Wakanohana Masaru and Takanonami Sadahiro, reached those ranks before 2004, under the Futagoyama name.

HeadTakanohana Koji (toshiyori name Takanohana, ichidai toshiyori), 65th yokozuna; the last and only head. He submitted his retirement papers to the Japan Sumo Association in September 2018, and the stable ended on 2018-10-01/02 (per Japanese Wikipedia)
IchimonNishonoseki ichimon until 2010; it then left and belonged to no ichimon; the group around it was renamed Takanohana ichimon in May 2014; that group ceased to exist in June 2018 when Takanohana left it, so at dissolution (October 2018) the stable belonged to no ichimon (per Japanese Wikipedia)
FoundedNamed Takanohana stable from 2004-02-01, when Takanohana (65th yokozuna) inherited Futagoyama stable. Futagoyama stable was founded in 1962 by the retired first Wakanohana (10th Futagoyama) in Suginami, Tokyo; in February 1993 Fujishima stable was merged into it and the combined stable was called Futagoyama stable again (per Japanese Wikipedia)

According to Japanese Wikipedia, Takanohana, the 65th yokozuna, took over Futagoyama stable on 2004-02-01, and the stable's name was changed to Takanohana stable at the same time.

According to Japanese Wikipedia, for a long time every wrestler in the stable was a Japanese junior-high-school graduate; after the Mongolian Takanoiwa joined in the November 2008 tournament, wrestlers who were not junior-high graduates were also on the roster.

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