Taihō Kōki (大鵬幸喜, born
May 29,
1940 as Naya Kōki) is the 48th
Yokozuna in the
Japanese sport of
sumo wrestling. He was born on the Island of
Sakhalin of mixed Japanese and
Ukrainian parentage, but is regarded as having come from
Hokkaidō, the most northerly of the main islands of
Japan, where he moved to as a child. He was the first of three great yokozuna who all hailed from Hokkaidō, and who among them dominated sumo during the
1960s,
70s and
80s. The others were
Kitanoumi and
Chiyonofuji. He is regarded generally as the greatest sumo wrestler of the post-war period. He won a record 32 tournaments in his career. He is the only wrestler to win at least one championship every year of his top division career. At the time of his promotion he was the youngest ever wrestler to achieve sumo's highest rank of Yokozuna aged 21 years old, a record subsequently surpassed by Kitanoumi. His shikona (wrestler name) "Taihō" means "big phoenix".
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