New recruits for Haru 2012

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

工藤良平 (Keiichi Yoshihiro??)

Surname looks like Kudo to me (without a dictionary though).

I agree with Doitsu. Maybe KudoU RyoUhei.

Edited March 3, 2012 by Otokonoyama

[Asashosakari 19,653]

工藤良平 (Keiichi Yoshihiro??)

Surname looks like Kudo to me (without a dictionary though).

I agree with Doitsu. Maybe KudoU RyoUhei.

Confirmed by Sports Hochi. Kudo, hailing from Iwaizumi-cho in Iwate prefecture, is notable for being the only sign-up from the three prefectures that were most devastated by the quake last year.

Despite the jungyo meeting with Giku five or six years ago he actually hasn't done sumo for all that long, only since his first year at Morioka Agricultural HS (so less than three years). But the aptitude was clearly there - in his second year he won the prefectural prelim to the national rookie championships both on the individual side and in the group competition, and in year three he captained the school squad to a victory in the prefectural stage of the National Inter-High and thus their first appearance in the big event in 31 years. Unsurprisingly his first shikona will be Kotokudo.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Recruit check-ups:

Edited March 3, 2012 by Kintamayama

[Randomitsuki 2,843]

No special shikona for now, he'll be starting his career as plain old Yamaguchi.

Well, the way collegiate rikishi have gone for the last decade I think they'd be aiming high just by expecting him to reach sekiwake...

Especially considering that he won the Kokutai tournament with one hikiotoshi and four hatakikomi.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

工藤良平 (Keiichi Yoshihiro??)

Surname looks like Kudo to me (without a dictionary though).

I agree with Doitsu. Maybe KudoU RyoUhei.

Kudos to both of you.

Chanko duty:

Edited March 5, 2012 by Kintamayama

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Heaviest and tallest of the new recruits this basho is 18-year-old Kinjo Shota, of Dewanoumi-beya, who clocks in at 190cm and a meaty 179kg. He has zero sumo experience, having started to play baseball as a child and dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player. Somewhere along the way that dream ended - Google tells me he was hit in the first baseman, which sounds painful. Anyway, last year he competed in a sumo tournament in Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture. Approached by a Dewanoumi scout, Kinjo was introduced to Dekiyama-oyakata (ex-Dewanohana) and agreed to join the heya, despite having a job lined up in social services after his graduation from high school. Kinjo reckons he is still growing, height-wise, and given his fondness for cream desserts I reckon he's still growing weight-wise, too.

He has a skinny younger brother. (I love the way they just lob these facts on at the end of an article)

Edited March 6, 2012 by Yubinhaad

[Itachiyama 119]

Sakaigawa-beya has 2 new Shindeshi, plus one Tokoyama and Gyoji.

Shindeshi 1: 井上 大地, from Tokyo, born 15.12.1996 http://www.geocities...s_/IMG_0601.JPG

Shindeshi 2: 長谷川 勇哉, from Aomori-ken (as Iwakiyama), born 04.08.1993 http://www.geocities...s_/IMG_0604.JPG

Tokoyama: 床輝, from Yamaguchi-ken (as Toyohibiki), born 24.11.1993 http://www.geocities...s_/IMG_0670.JPG

Gyoji: 木村秀昌, from Aomori-ken, born 30.04.1993 http://www.geocities...s_/IMG_0672.JPG

Edited March 7, 2012 by Itachiyama

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

Shindeshi 1: 井上 大地, from Tokyo, born 15.12.1996 --> Maybe Inoue Daichi

Shindeshi 2: 長谷川 勇哉, from Aomori-ken (as Iwakiyama), born 04.08.1993 --> Maybe Hasegawa Yuuya

Tokoyama: 床輝, from Yamaguchi-ken (as Toyohibiki), born 24.11.1993 --> Maybe Toko-Akira

Gyoji: 木村秀昌, from Aomori-ken, born 30.04.1993 --> Maybe Kimura Hidemasa

Edited March 8, 2012 by Otokonoyama

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Tokoyama: 床輝, from Yamaguchi-ken (as Toyohibiki), born 24.11.1993 --> Maybe Toko-Akira

Gyoji: 木村秀昌, from Aomori-ken, born 30.04.1993 --> Maybe Kimura Hidemasa

The Tokoyama appears to be Tokoteru. Kimura Hidemasa is confirmed on the Kyokai's English gyoji page.

[kaiguma 0]

All of Kintamayama's inages show up for me as "posted image."

It doesn't seem like they are old enough to have expired . . .

I really would like to see more images of these recruits!

EDIT: Ok, not at all, but quite a few on page 1 of the thread.

Edited March 8, 2012 by kaiguma

[Kintamayama 45,524]

All of Kintamayama's inages show up for me as "posted image."

It doesn't seem like they are old enough to have expired . . .

I really would like to see more images of these recruits!

EDIT: Ok, not at all, but quite a few on page 1 of the thread.

Some news sites take those photos off rather quickly so I'm pretty sure that's the case here.

[Asojima 2,874]

All of Kintamayama's inages show up for me as "posted image."

EDIT: Ok, not at all, but quite a few on page 1 of the thread.

The missing images are from Yahoo. Yahoo picks up images from other providers and publishes copies of them using their own link. Most Yahoo links only last about 1 week. I only use them as a last resort.

[Naganoyama 5,947]

One of the height-challenged new recruits is an ex-speed skater, 19 year old 茅野 Kayano.(Kajino? Does he gamble?).He left school at the second year of Junior high but dreamed of being a rikishi since he was small. After seeing Ootake Oyakata on TV attempting to recruit new deshi, he decided to join his heya."It's a cheerful heya, and I would like to gradually add to my physical strength," he said.

*no:

Chino.

Although he isn't wearing his chinos at the moment...

I have the full data now but I haven't worked out how to post it.

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

And fingers crossed that Kiyosato does enter, after all!

Not on the list. (Shaking head...) Maybe next time.

Nice to see Minezaki-beya getting a couple more new recruits. I think I'm right in saying that it is the only current heya which has yet to develop a sekitori since opening (which was in 1989).

[Naganoyama 5,947]

NSK data:

SHIKONA	KANJI	NAME	HEYA	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	DOB	BIRTHPLACE
Aoki	青木	Kurumi Aoki	Takanohana	174	89	20 - June - 1996	Nagano
Arakaki	新垣	Yuya Aragaki	Naruto	188	133	16 - July - 1996	Chiba
Asatsurugi	朝剣	Tsurugi Shibazuka	Takasago	181	104	21 - May - 1996	Saitama
Asayudai	朝雄大	Yudai Shimokawa	Takasago	180	100	30 - January - 1997	Oita
Chino	茅野	Takahiro Chino	Otake	175	68	06 - April - 1993	Nagano
Fujita	藤田	Yoshiro Fujita	Shikoroyama	190	139	11 - May - 1996	Kanagawa
Fukushima	福島	Takahiro Fukushima	Nishikido	179	125	06 - June - 1996	Hyogo
Fukuzato	福里	Yuya Fukuzato	Kokonoe	186	124	27 - December - 1993	Okinawa
Goto	後藤	Naoya Goto	Kasugayama	175	141	18 - August - 1993	Tochigi
Haruminato	榛湊	Takahiro Nakajima	Minato	175	90	12 - January - 1997	Gunma
Hasegawa	長谷川	Yuya Hasegawa	Sakaigawa	183	166	04 - August - 1993	Aomori
Honda	本多	Shunpei Honda	Nishikido	177	95	11 - March - 1997	Tokyo
Ichiki	市来	Yutaka Ichiki	Hakkaku	181	147	21 - September- 1993	Hokkaido
Ishiharayama	石原山	Yu Ishihara	Shikoroyama	167	86	15 - April - 1996	Tokyo
Kai	甲斐	Shota Kai	Hakkaku	181	107	14 - January - 1994	Hiroshima
Kinjo	金城	Shuta Kinjo	Dewanoumi	190	179	14 - December - 1993	Tochigi
Kotomanabe	琴真鍋	Taishi Manabe	Sadogatake	173	103	16 - July - 1996	Aichi
Kotouruga	琴宇留賀	Hibiki Uruga	Sadogatake	184	69	06 - August - 1993	Nagano
Kudo	工藤	Ryohei Kudo	Sadogatake	180	103	28 - January - 1994	Iwate
Matsuo	松尾	Masashi Matsuo	Sadogatake	167	87	29 - June - 1996	Saga
Matsuyama	松山	Hiromi Matsuyama	Dewanoumi	180	100	12 - November - 1996	Okinawa
Morigaki	森垣	Shin Morigaki	Hakkaku	178	137	29 - July - 1993	Kyoto
Nakano	中野	Shota Nakano	Hakkaku	173	104	16 - August - 1993	Hokkaido
Nakazono	中園	Sora Nakazono	Matsugane	174	81	18 - May - 1996	Kagoshima
Okawara	大河原	Hamandoreiken Okawara	Azumazeki	186	111	01 - December - 1996	Shizuoka
Omura	大村	Daichi Omura	Sadogatake	177	83	25 - February - 1997	Fukuoka
Rikiyushi	力優士	Yuji Morooka	Minezaki	177	96	02 - August - 1996	Osaka
Sadanohana	佐田ノ華	Daichi Inoue	Sakaigawa	180	100	15 - December - 1996	Tokyo
Takahashi	高橋	Hikaru Takahashi	Kokonoe	170	98	12 - November - 1996	Akita
Uno	宇野	Masanobu Uno	Tamanoi	174	88	06 - April - 1996	Chiba
Yamaguchi	山口	Masahiro Yamaguchi	Miyagino	182	152	13 - May - 1989	Tokyo
Yamamoto	山本	Isato Yamamoto	Minezaki	175	139	09 - May - 1996	Kyoto
Yamenishiki	八女錦	Kenta Iwamoto	Takadagawa	175	103	13 - January - 1997	Fukuoka
Yoshida	吉田	Yuta Yoshida	Kasugayama	175	98	30 - August - 1996	Kanagawa

Edit: shikona at presentation

Edited March 21, 2012 by Naganoyama

[Asashosakari 19,653]

Meh...Yamaguchi with a Tokyo-shusshin. I was hoping he'd stick to Tottori.

[Asashosakari 19,653]

Shindeshi by stable:

5 - Sadogatake

4 - Hakkaku

2 - Dewanoumi, Kasugayama, Kokonoe, Minezaki, Nishikido, Sakaigawa, Shikoroyama, Takasago

1 - Azumazeki, Matsugane, Minato, Miyagino, Naruto, Otake, Takadagawa, Takanohana, Tamanoi

11 high schoolers and 22 from middle school. No collegiate deshi other than tsukedashi Yamaguchi...

Takasago-beya has its first new recruits since Haru 2009.

Edited March 11, 2012 by Asashosakari

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

SHIKONA

KANJI

NAME

HEYA

HEIGHT

WEIGHT

DOB

BIRTHPLACE

Okawara大河原Hamandoreiken OkawaraAzumazeki18611101 - December - 1996Shizuoka

Hamandoreiken seems like an unusual name.

The French blog has shikona listed for the two Minezaki-beya recruits. Morooka is shown as Rikiyushi, while Yamamoto is shown as Oisato.

Edited March 11, 2012 by Yubinhaad

[Raishu 208]

Three recruits from Nagano this time, nice.

There haven't been that many Haru shin deshi from that place since 1993 (4).

EDIT: And three from Okinawa, which is pretty rare too (4 in March 1976). Mehh, only two. Need new specs.

Edited March 11, 2012 by Raishu

[Asashosakari 19,653]

Hamandoreiken seems like an unusual name.

It's listed as a strange mix of kana and kanji, too: ハマンドレイ健. I guess that's actually first and middle names, although I'm not sure what actual name "Hamandorei" is supposed to be the phonetic equivalent of...

The French blog has shikona listed for the two Minezaki-beya recruits. Morooka is shown as Rikiyushi, while Yamamoto is shown as Oisato.

Thanks - two fewer names I'll have to puzzle out from the juvenile yobidashi and gyoji voices later tonight and tomorrow. ;-)

Also, there's some confusion on the Kyokai site as to whether the Naruto deshi's name is read Aragaki or Arakaki. That's probably getting fixed at some point.

Edited March 11, 2012 by Asashosakari

[Asashosakari 19,653]

Day 2 / Group A maezumo - enjoy the mesmerizing pictures, as the sound (ranging somewhere between dreadful and non-existent) is going to make it somewhat difficult to identify actual deshi:

Results (winners in red):

Mz6

Edited March 13, 2012 by Asashosakari

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

Also, there's some confusion on the Kyokai site as to whether the Naruto deshi's name is read Aragaki or Arakaki. That's probably getting fixed at some point.

On Okinawa that name is common and is usually read as Arakaki.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Hamandoreiken seems like an unusual name.

Ken Hamandley-Okawara.

I'm lying, but it would be cool..

[Asashosakari 19,653]

Hamandoreiken seems like an unusual name.

Ken Hamandley-Okawara.

I'm lying, but it would be cool..

Ah, a double surname, that's also possible, especially with the haphazard way the Kyokai site transfers three-piece names from the Japanese to the English side. Probably Okawara-Hamandley then, though. :-)

(And that's a Yubinhaad quote up there, not mine.)

[Asashosakari 19,653]

Also, there's some confusion on the Kyokai site as to whether the Naruto deshi's name is read Aragaki or Arakaki. That's probably getting fixed at some point.

On Okinawa that name is common and is usually read as Arakaki.

Thanks for the semi-confirmation; that also dovetails with my notion that the shikona entry (with specifically entered kana reading) is more likely to be correct than the romanized name field.