Asahiyama stable (2016)

Asahiyama stable (朝日山部屋, Asahiyama-beya) is a stable of sumo wrestlers, part of the Isegahama ichimon (or group of stables) It is located in Chiba prefecture.

The stable's predecessor in name had a very long history in sumo, however the current incarnation is unrelated to it. A year after the closing of the previous incarnation of the stable, the retired former Kotonishiki, after several years of borrowing elder names, finally acquired the vacant elder name of Asahiyama, and set up his own stable, a dream he had had from long before. He financed a building to house his stable in Kamagaya, Chiba near Kunugiyama Station on some land he had procured, quite near the stable he originally wrestled for, Sadogatake of the Nishonoseki ichimon.[1][2] Owner Asahiyama's hope was that he could bring together the demanding training he learned as an active wrestler in his original stable, Sadogatake (one of the strongest stables in sumo) and the warmheartedness towards trainees that he later learned as a coach at Oguruma stable.[3]

He took three low ranked wrestlers from the aforementioned Oguruma stable (which along with Sadogatake is also a member of the same Nishonoseki ichimon) to join his new stable.[4] In January 2017 the stable left the Nishonoseki ichimon and joined the Isegahama ichimon (to which the previous incarnation of Asahiyama stable had belonged.) It was announced in February 2017 that Asahiyama Oyakata's 18 year old son, Akihide, would be joining the stable as a new recruit upon graduation from high school in March.[5] He fights under the name Wakaseido. In January 2021, it had ten wrestlers, with no sekitori yet.