New kesho mawashi

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Hokutofuji was presented with a new kesho-mawashi from Hakkaku-beya's Osaka koenkai.

[Rocks 1,809]

Very cool. It looks like a 70s prog rock album cover.

[Benihana 1,937]

Black, red, gold...looks somewhat familiar, can't put my finger on it...

 

I'd like to see a completely unfolded kesho-mawashi. Is the "decorative end" the same width as the rest of it? Or is it a separate piece that is stuffed into a normal mawashi? Maybe seems like a dumb question, but i can't remember any posts or articles on this topic. To be honest i've never seen a normal mawashi being put on. Anyone has a video?

Edited March 11, 2017 by Benihana

[Rocks 1,809]

16 minutes ago, Benihana said:

Black, red, gold...looks somewhat familiar, can't put my finger on it...

 

I'd like to see a completely unfolded kesho-mawashi. Is the "decorative end" the same width as the rest of it? Or is it a separate piece that is stuffed into a normal mawashi? Maybe seems like a dumb question, but i can't remember any posts or articles on this topic. To be honest i've never seen a normal mawashi being put on. Anyone has a video?

I don't really know but it seems to me there's a regular mawashi of a matching color, when it gets to the last belly wrap the kensho-mawashi is held against the belly and the last wrap of the regular mawashi holds it on. I think there is only about another foot of the kensho mawashi that you don't see in that pic and that the part which is sticking up at their belly when they wear it.

[Akinomaki 40,756]

35 minutes ago, Benihana said:

Black, red, gold...looks somewhat familiar, can't put my finger on it...

 

I'd like to see a completely unfolded kesho-mawashi. Is the "decorative end" the same width as the rest of it? Or is it a separate piece that is stuffed into a normal mawashi? Maybe seems like a dumb question, but i can't remember any posts or articles on this topic. To be honest i've never seen a normal mawashi being put on. Anyone has a video?

It is quite long - I haven't seen it completely unfolded, some part was rolled, but the closest I came to one was this

On 5.5.2014 at 07:48, Akinomaki said:

On 3.5.2014 at 08:51, Akinomaki said:

On display at the Kashiwa Takashimaya store till the 6th - a 10min ride on the local line from where I dwell, I think I will have a closer look.

I'm not that fond of this Facebook format, but it's the easiest way for me right now:

The closer look at Kisenosato's new keshō-mawashi

Morooka ordered that for Kisenosato from Takashimaya (their mark is on the kesho-mawashi and on the akeni to transport it) - Takashimaya let the Kyoto craftsman Hasegawa produce it.

Kise's hometown is close to Kashiwa.

[Benihana 1,937]

3 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

It is quite long - I haven't seen it completely unfolded, some part was rolled, but the closest I came to one was this

Thank you! I think i finally got an idea how it is folded...videos still welcome.

[Rocks 1,809]

I guess I was wrong then. Oh well.

[Akinomaki 40,756]

On 25.4.2017 at 13:07, rhyen said:

Wonder how earth shattering this will be. His first yokozuna kit will feature the titular 3 brothers from the "Fist of the North Star" manga series.

In the design for the Hokuto-no-ken kesho-mawashi set for Kisenosato for the first time manga characters from anime are used for a yokozuna set - so far only for individual kesho mawashi, recently Kinnikuman for Chiyotairyu, and also Tetsuwan-atom and Bakabon were used (I post the details later in "Older kesho mawashi")

In the koenkai formed for his ozeki promotion, 2years ago editor-in-chief Horie of Shonen-Jump, which published Hokuto-no-ken, promised a set to Kisenosato, then already struggling on a prolonged yokozuna run, should he make it at last. And Kise said: "Hokuto-no-ken is fine. With Raoh please."

Thus Kisenosato's will show the eldest, Raoh, though the hero is Kenshiro - but Raoh has the motto: "For me there's no retreat, nothing but advance and win" and "There is only one supreme ruler"

the tachi-mochi - till ozeki promotion fixed job for Takayasu - has the youngest, Kenshiro

and the tsuyu-harai (Shohozan) the middle brother Toki

The kesho-mawashi will also show 2 sets of the Big Dipper (Hokuto-7stars) and the North Star (Hokkyokusei) - 15 stars=wins in total. http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1812972.html

Kise with Horie

Edited April 26, 2017 by Akinomaki

[rhyen 1,846]

 

[Akinomaki 40,756]

Asanoyama got his 4th kesho mawashi, from the club of his locals who live in Tokyo, showing the symbol of Toyama pref., the Tateyama mountain range. http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1817417.html

[PawnSums 59]

On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2017 at 10:29, rhyen said:

 

Are... They... Wearing Anything Under That?

[Orion 431]

15 hours ago, PawnSums said:

Are... They... Wearing Anything Under That?

Decades ago I was informed that, unlike the regular silk mawashi worn for the actual bouts, which goes on next to the skin, they wear a plain loincloth to protect the valuable kesho-mawashi; but I have never attempted to verify this. 

Orion

[Kuroyama 715]

2 hours ago, Orion said:

I have never attempted to verify this. 

Well... One doesn't, does one?

[Churaumi 745]

I was curious about this, a little. Since a yokozuna's set gets shared by many different rikishi, and a mawashi gets crammed into some crevices, and cleaning them all the time would be a lot of wear and tear, how do they keep them from getting nasty. A loincloth makes sense. 

And may I never think about it too deeply ever again.

[Akinomaki 40,756]

On 2017/4/25 at 23:28, Akinomaki said:

In the design for the Hokuto-no-ken kesho-mawashi set for Kisenosato for the first time manga characters from anime are used for a yokozuna set

Thus Kisenosato's will show the eldest, Raoh, though the hero is Kenshiro - but Raoh has the motto: "For me there's no retreat, nothing but advance and win" and "There is only one supreme ruler"

presented today

 

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

A few pictures of the new kesho-mawashi set, and some of Kisenosato's other sets.
 

Spoiler

 

[Asashosakari 19,648]

I guess the 15th star on Kise's kesho is supposed to be the large stylized one behind Rao's head?

[rhyen 1,846]

Does Kisenosato now have more Yokozuna kits than Kakuryu & Hatumafuji?

[RabidJohn 1,854]

I'd seen the cranes set and I knew the manga set was coming, but this is the first I've seen or heard of the chrysanthemum and cherry blossom set and the Egyptian-looking 'Picasso' set. What're the stories with those?

[rhyen 1,846]

the chrysanthemum set comes from his local koenkai in Ibaraki. 

[Akinomaki 40,756]

New Yutakayama for makuuchi debut got a kesho mawashi from the local Niigata branch OB club of his university, Tounoudai, the first one from his locals. Like Terutsuyoshi with a map of home (in dark green) and the main local produce: as the head of a rice plant in yellow and yellow green, the new shikona in red. He plans to use this one from day 11 to 15. http://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/news/national/20170507322369.html

Edited May 9, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,756]

Hokutofuji from local Tokorozawa sponsor Uchino signboards got his 5th kesho mawashi, with the logo of the corporation. This logo like the new shikonas of the Onamis was inspired by the 3 arrows story for Mori Motonari's 3 sons and also carries the image of a pyramid - with the hope of "pyramid power". Hokutofuji : "Completely different color than the other 4, the blue is beautiful - my lucky color."

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[Akinomaki 40,756]

Kise switched to his local set on day 6

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the design esp. for the tsuyu harai looks quite similar to the old one of Kise from this his local koenkai

The chrysanthemum is the city flower of Ushiku, the tachi-mochi has it with the rising sun, the tsuyu-harai has the Ushiku city bird - the Japanese nightingale - with plum flowers. The landscape is the Ushiku swamp area with the mountain range of Mt. Tsukuba, the yokozuna has the peak - like the Fuji a divine mountain ("Fuji in the west - Tsukuba in the east"). http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20170520/sum17052005030006-n2.html

Likely Kise will use the one sponsored by Picasso inc. (real estate & investment business) on the last 5 days. http://www.zakzak.co.jp/sports/etc_sports/news/20170519/spo1705191700006-n2.htm

On 7.5.2017 at 09:44, RabidJohn said:

the first I've seen or heard of the chrysanthemum and cherry blossom set and the Egyptian-looking 'Picasso' set. What're the stories with those?

On 7.5.2017 at 11:55, rhyen said:

the chrysanthemum set comes from his local koenkai in Ibaraki. 

 

[Akinomaki 40,756]

On 25.4.2017 at 16:28, Akinomaki said:

In the design for the Hokuto-no-ken kesho-mawashi set for Kisenosato for the first time manga characters from anime are used for a yokozuna set

 

Kisenosato's will show the eldest, Raoh, though the hero is Kenshiro - but Raoh has the motto: "For me there's no retreat, nothing but advance and win" and "There is only one supreme ruler"

On 9.6.2017 at 14:53, Akinomaki said:

The manga set on display next week in the affiliated manga-kissa - Cafe Zenon - the sponsor's Monthly Zenon has started to publish the Kise story manga, their new mangahot app has it as well - the first episode, the 2nd usually will also be for free

On display till tomorrow.

5 kesho-mawashi craftsmen around pure-silk Hakata-ori artisan Hyosuke Kusaka 日下淼介  (77) had worked on the set for 2 ½ months. Usually 1 craftsman works alone on a kesho-mawashi/set - Kusaka did the McLaren for Ishiura in about 2 months www.as-web.jp/info/81659 ).

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/sumo/20170615-OYT1T50032.html

 

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I searched for Kusaka and found a short note from 2011 about him http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/kantei/kaiun_db/otakara/20110125/02.html

It was not in the family for him  - he somehow entered the company of a friend of his father who did embroidery at age 40. But by the quality of his work and natural sociability, he got famous rikishi to point him out to make their kesho-mawashi - Kitanoumi, Chiyonofuji, Asashoryu, Hakuho etc. - with a share of 40%.

I would love to find the 2004 documentary on him somewhere - the 6th owner of the Miyata embroidery shop: 2004-01-11 お江戸粋いき! 「宮田刺繍舗六代目 日下淼介」 TBS系列 11:40～11:45

[Amamaniac 2,079]

On April 25, 2017 at 10:28, Akinomaki said:

In the design for the Hokuto-no-ken kesho-mawashi set for Kisenosato for the first time manga characters from anime are used for a yokozuna set

It’s fortunate that they went with the Hokuto-no-ken theme.  Just imagine, a Yokozuna’s kesho-mawashi set featuring Hello Kitty!  Do Yokozunas have a say in the designs? (A similar question has been asked before, but I did not see an answer.)  More importantly, do the designs have to be approved by the JSA before they are made?  If not, I’m assuming the JSA would have the power to ban the use of an inappropriate kesho-mawashi or one unbecoming of a Yokozuna.