 Kakizoe Tōru

Kakizoe was an amateur sumo champion at Nippon Sport Science University, winning the "Kokutai" (Japan Games) and the All Japan University Championship in 2000, his final year, which earned him the amateur "yokozuna" title.He joined Musashigawa stable, which, at the time, was one of the strongest in sumo with "yokozuna" Musashimaru and other successful former collegiate competitors such as Dejima and Miyabiyama amongst its wrestlers.