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  the end of war when everyone in Japan was still struggling to get by each day, he happened to see an old woman with a heavy load over her back arriving from the countryside to sell her wares in the city. Kagamisato could not endure seeing her trying to walk while carrying such a heavy burden, so he went over to the old woman and offered to buy the whole load.

Kagamisato fervently believed in his shisho, Futabayama, and in his sumo philosophy, the way of sumo-do. For Kagamisato, sumo was a way of life. It was more than winning and losing. Winning was not everything for him. There are rikishi who maintain as long as they are winning, no one can complain about their behavior. There are those who are working harder to establish their own supporters club than focusing on sumo. We have rikishi counting only on their win/ loss ratios to guarantee their next promotions. It is hard to believe that not so long ago we had in our midst a rikishi of such stature and integrity, that just as he displayed his honest sumo form on the dohyo, he paralleled this form in his own life in the same way – always straightforward and sincere.

Home 		Kagamisato Kiyoji

Born: Tonai, Sannohe-machi, Sannohe-gun, Aomori Prefecture
Date: April 30, 1923
Real Name: Kiyoji Okuyama
Shikona: Kagamisato
Heya: Kumegawa → Futabayama → Tokitsukaze
Dohyo debut: January 1941
Juryo debut: November 1945
Makuuchi debut: June 1947
Last Basho: January 1958
Highest rank: Yokozuna
Total Makuuchi Basho: 38 Bashos
Makuuchi Record: 360 wins, 163 losses, 28 kyujo
Winning percentage: 0.688
Yusho: 4 times (Second - 5 times)
Sansho Awards: Shukun-sho (1), Kanto-sho (1)
Kinsho: 2 times (Maedayama, Azumafuji)
Height; 174 cm
Weight: 161 kg
Favorite techniques: Migi-yotsu, Uwatenage, Yori
Toshiyori name: Kagamisato → Kumegawa → Tatsutagawa → Tokitsukaze → Tatsutagawa → Hatachiyama Retired (mandatory from Kyokai): April 1988
Died: February 29, 2004