 Kōki akaberekerwa pachitsuwa cheSakhalin Karafuto Prefecture kuna amai vechiJapan Kiyo Naya uye baba verudzi rweUkraine Markiyan Boryshko avo vakanga vatiza Bolshevik Revolution. Zvisinei, anofungidzirwa kuti akabva kuTeshikaga, Hokkaidō, kwaakatamira achiri mwana mushure mekunge Soviet Union yatora Sakhalin muna 1945. Paaiva parwendo rwokuSumo kuSoviet Union muna 1965 akaedza kuwana baba vake, asi pasina kubudirira. Taihō akanga ari wokutanga wevatatu yokozuna vakakurumbira avo vose vakabva kuHokkaidō, kuchamhembe kwezvitsuwa zvikuru zveJapan uye avo pakati pavo vaitonga sumo mukati mema1960, 1970, uye 1980. Vamwe vacho vaiva Kitanoumi naChiyonofuji. 