# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wakanohana-masaru
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:01:07.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wakanohana-masaru"
name: "Wakanohana Masaru"
slug: "wakanohana-masaru"
description: "Masaru Hanada  is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana Masaru , and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Kōji saw a boom in sumo's popularity in the early 1990s. He is the elder son of the former ōzeki Takanohana Kenshi, who was also his stablemaster, and the nephew of Wakanohana Kanji I, a famous yokozuna of the 1950s. Wakanohana was a long serving ōzeki who won five tournament championships, and eventually joined his brother as the 66th yokozuna in 1998, creating the first ever sibling grand champions. After a brief and injury plagued yokozuna career he retired in 2000, becoming a television personality and restaurant owner. The death of his father in 2005 saw a very public falling out with his brother."
tagline: "Japanese sumo wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Former_sumo_yokozuna%2C_Wakanohana_Masaru%2C_Jan_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1971-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.32
  momentum:             2.466978824516039
  historical:           10.642204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E7%94%B0%E8%99%8E%E4%B8%8A"
    title: "花田虎上"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanohana_Masaru"
    title: "Wakanohana Masaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanohana_Masaru"
    title: "Wakanohana Masaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanohana_Masaru"
    title: "Wakanohana Masaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "واکانوهانا ماسارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanohana_III_Masaru"
    title: "Wakanohana III Masaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanohana_Masaru"
    title: "Wakanohana Masaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanohana_Masaru"
    title: "Wakanohana Masaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E7%94%B0%E8%99%8E%E4%B8%8A"
    title: "花田虎上"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Ваканохана Масару"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanohana_Masaru"
    title: "Wakanohana Masaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump