Kokonoe stable

Kokonoe eventually produced Chiyotenzan, briefly a komusubi in 1999, and long serving ōzeki Chiyotaikai (1999–2009), his most successful wrestler.

The agreement was presented as having the objective of cooperating further in a wide range of areas, including tourism, culture, sports, and educational promotion, and work closely to revitalize local communities.

The wrestler in question had arrived to the tour venue in Ōbu, Aichi on the morning of 15 October and was then transported to a hospital for acute alcohol poisoning.

[5][6] On 26 October Nikkan Sports, quoting a source, reported that Kononoe berated the wrestler that was caught drinking, both in the hospital and during a Sumo Association inquiry.

A few days before the suspensions were announced, the wrestler was said to have run away from Kokonoe stable to return to his parents and had his top knot cut off at a barber shop.

[7] Traditionally many wrestlers at this stable, often on reaching the sandanme division, take ring names or shikona that begin with the characters 千代 (read: chiyo), meaning "a thousand generations", in deference to the founder, Chiyonoyama and also his later successor Chiyonofuji.

1-21-14 Okudo, Katsushika ward, Tokyo 20-minute walk from Shin-Koiwa Station (Sōbu Line Local and Rapid)