Mitsuneyama Keiji, real name Tà Âichi Shimamura (7 February 1922 â 15 August 1989) was a sumo wrestler from Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan who won the top division yà «shà  or tournament championship in 1954. His highest rank was à Âzeki and he earned nine kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna when ranked as a maegashira, and seven special prizes. After his retirement in 1960 he was the head coach of Takashima stable.
He began his professional career in 1937, joining Takashima stable, reaching the top makuuchi division in 1944. He earned nine kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna whilst ranked as a maegashira, and seven sanshà  or special prizes. In 1953, at the age of 31, he was promoted to the second highest rank of à Âzeki, after 16 tournaments in the lower san'yaku ranks, ten at sekiwake and six at komusubi. Three tournaments later he took his only top division yà «shà  or tournament championship, with a 12âÂÂ3 record. At 32 years and one month he is the sixth oldest first time yà «shà  winner since World War II, behind Kyokutenhà Â, Tamawashi, Tamanoumi, Yoshibayama and Takatà Âriki. He lost the à Âzeki rank in 1955, largely due to injuries. He carried on fighting in the maegashira ranks, last under the shikona Mitsuneyama Hà Âkoku, until January 1960 when he retired at the age of nearly 38.
He remained in the sumo world as a toshiyori or elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Kumagatani Oyakata and founded his own Kumagatani stable. In May 1961 he acquired the Takashima elder name and changed the name of the stable to Takashima stable. He produced the top division wrestlers Daiju and Kà Âbà Âyama, but resigned due to ill health in 1982, the heya being absorbed into another incarnation of Kumagatani stable founded by the former Yoshinomine. He continued to work as a coach at Kumagatani before leaving the Sumo Association in January 1985. He died in 1989.