Tagonoura stable (田子ノ浦部屋, Tagonoura-beya), formerly Naruto stable is a stable of sumo wrestlers, one of the Nishonoseki group of stables.
The stable was established as Naruto stable, on 1 February 1989 by former yokozunaTakanosato Toshihide. The stable's first sekitori was Rikiō in 1994. Four more, Wakanosato, Takanowaka, Takayasu and Kisenosato, have reached sekiwake rank, with Takayasu going on to reach the ōzeki rank, and the stable's first yokozuna being Kisenosato. It had a reputation for being a closed, family-knit stable, as Naruto did not allow his wrestlers to go out and train at other stables (which is unusual in sumo) or socialize with wrestlers from different stables.[1]
Naruto died suddenly on 7 November 2011. The stable's current master, former maegashiraTakanotsuru, changed to the Tagonoura toshiyori in December 2013 and renamed the stable accordingly.[2] Upon changing the stable name, the stable was also moved to the Ryōgoku area from Matsudo, Chiba. It has no connection to the defunct Tagonoura stable established by the late Kushimaumi. As of January 2023 it had 13 wrestlers.
The stable sat out of the January 2022 tournament after four individuals, including the stablemaster, tested positive for COVID-19.[3] The stable withdrew a second time in July 2022 after three wrestlers, including Takayasu, tested positive for the virus.[4]
Ring name conventions
Many wrestlers at this stable have taken ring names or shikona that end with the character 里 (read: sato), meaning village or native place, in deference to their coach and the stable's owner, the deceased former Takanosato.
