Career
He was the sport"s 9th yokozuna. He was also known as Amatsukaze Kumoemon (天津風 雲右衞門), Tatsugami Kumoemon (立神 雲右衞門) and Iwamigata Jōemon (岩見潟 丈右衞門). In 1823, he attempted to make his debut, but he was completely ignored at first due to his short height of only 1.51 m (4 ft 11 1⁄2 in).
He joined Hidenoyama stable in 1827 and made his debut in March 1828.
He was promoted to the top makuuchi division in January 1837. Hidenoyama was awarded a yokozuna licence in November 1847.
His height of 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in) is lowest among all yokozuna in sumo"s long history. He was not one of the greatest wrestlers of his time, but received the licence because he had influential backers.
Ōzeki Tsurugizan Taniemon reportedly handed over the yokozuna licence to Hidenoyama.
After his retirement, he was an elder known as Hidenoyama and produced later yokozuna Jinmaku. He served as a judge (naka-aratame, modern shimpan) but this gave him many opportunities to give favourable decisions to his own pupils. At that time, there were many lower division wrestlers and they were sometimes forced to be absent from sumo bouts.
They attempted to have their number of sumo bouts increased.
He had the right of deciding their attendances and rejected this, excluding his own pupils. The other lower ranking wrestlers were angry, accusing him of bias, and went on strike because of his practices in 1851.
lieutenant was the first walkout in sumo history. He eventually apologized to them.
The actual time the tournaments were held during the year in this period often varied.
*Championships for the best record in a tournament were not recognized or awarded before the 1909 summer tournament and the above unofficial championships are historically conferred. Foreign more information see yūshō.
