Yoshibayama Junnosuke

Yoshibayama Junnosuke was a professional sumo wrestler from Hokkaido whose highest rank was yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. After making his professional debut in May 1938, he used the ring name Yoshibayama from May 1939, having previously competed under a different shikona, a ring name. Across 47 career tournaments he compiled a record of 357 wins and 171 losses, spending 37 tournaments in makuuchi, the top division, where he won one top-division championship and earned two kinboshi (a "gold star": a maegashira's win over a yokozuna). Following the January 1954 tournament he became yokozuna. As an active wrestler his last stable was Takashima stable, and he retired in January 1958. On 26 November 1977 he died at the age of 57.