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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Araiso stable, Arashio stable, Asahiyama stable, Azumazeki Stable, Dewanoumi stable, Fujishima stable (2010), Hakkaku stable, Hanakago stable, Hanaregoma stable, Heya (sumo), Irumagawa stable, Isegahama stable, Isenoumi stable, Izutsu stable, Kasugano stable, Kasugayama stable, Kataonami Stable, Kiriyama stable, Kise stable, Kitanoumi stable, Kokonoe stable, List of sumo beya, Magaki Stable, Matsugane Stable, Michinoku stable, Mihogaseki stable, Minato stable, Minezaki Stable, Miyagino stable, Nakamura Stable, Naruto stable, Nishikido Stable, Nishonoseki Stable, Oguruma Stable, Oitekaze stable, nomatsu stable, shima stable, take stable, Sadogatake stable, Sakaigawa stable, Shibatayama Stable, Shikoroyama stable, Tagonoura stable, Takadagawa Stable, Takanohana stable, Takasago stable, Tamanoi stable, Tatsunami stable, Tokitsukaze stable, Tomozuna stable. Excerpt: The following is an alphabetical list of heya or training stables in professional sumo. Each belongs to one of five ichimon or groups. The founding dates listed below are for the current incarnation of each stable; in most cases this is not the first stable to exist under a given name, however. The number of stables peaked at 54 with the opening of Onoe stable in August 2006, following which the Japan Sumo Association introduced new rules that September greatly raising the qualifications needed by ex-wrestlers wishing to branch out (namely, those ranked below yokozuna or ozeki must have spent at least 60 tournaments in the top makuuchi division or 25 in the titled sanyaku ranks). Discounting the special circumstances of the closure and re-opening of the Kise stable, there have been no new heya established since then, while seven (Isegahama, Arasio, Kiriyama, Takashima, Tagonoura, Oshima and Hanakago) have folded, bringing the number of active heya down to 47 as of May 2012. Takanohana stable Takanohana-beya) is a stable of sumo wrestlers, formerly one of the Nishonoseki group of stables. It was known as Futagoyama stable until 2004. Futagoyama stable was established in 1962 by former Yokozuna Wakanohana Kanji I, who branched off from Hanakago stable and converted his home near the Minami Asagaya station into the stable headquarters.Its first sekitori was komusubi Futagodake. It was very strong in the late 1970s and early 1980s when it produced two yokozuna and two zeki, one of whom, Takanohana Kenshi, was the stable master's younger brother. From the promotion of Takanohana Kenshi to komusubi in May 1972 until the retirement of Wakashimazu in July 1987 the stable always had at least one wrestler in the titled san'yaku ranks. Takanohana Kenshi established Fujishima stable upon his retirement as an active wrestler in 1982, and when his elder brother reached the mandatory oyakata retirement age of 65 in February 1993, Fujishima and Futagoyama stable were merged and c
