# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wakanosato-shinobu
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:11:34.725Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wakanosato-shinobu"
name: "Wakanosato Shinobu"
slug: "wakanosato-shinobu"
description: "Wakanosato Shinobu is a retired sumo wrestler from Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. He made his debut in the top division in 1998, and his highest rank was sekiwake. He holds the record for the most consecutive tournaments ranked in the junior san'yaku ranks of sekiwake and komusubi. He won ten special prizes and was twice runner-up in a tournament. He earned two gold stars for defeating yokozuna at a maegashira rank. He had 1691 career bouts, sixth on the all-time list. He retired in 2015 and was a coach at Tagonoura stable, until opening his own Nishiiwa stable in February 2018."
tagline: "Japanese sumo wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wakanosato_in_Harubasho_2013_IMG_1874-2_20310324.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1976-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.66
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.926288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanosato_Shinobu"
    title: "Wakanosato Shinobu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanosato_Shinobu"
    title: "Wakanosato Shinobu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%A5%E3%81%AE%E9%87%8C%E5%BF%8D"
    title: "若の里忍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B1%D2%AF"
    title: "Ваканосато Шинобү"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%A5%E4%B9%8B%E9%87%8C%E5%BF%8D"
    title: "若之里忍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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