Rikishi extra activities

[Koorifuu 1,019]

2 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

plus 1 tsukebito

Unrelated but I'm surprised to hear Kototebakari is a full blown tsukebito, given his very obvious promise when he joined and that he's had a very quick rise so far; one year and a half to makushita joi, one soft MK in 9 career basho.

Edited July 27, 2023 by Koorifuu

[Tsuchinoninjin 1,276]

1 minute ago, Koorifuu said:

Unrelated but I'm surprised to hear Kototebakari is a full blown tsukebito, given his very obvious promise when he joined and that he's had a very quick rise so far; one year and a half to makushita joi, one soft MK in 9 career basho.

I think the more promise someone has the more likely they will be full time tsukebito, it’s kind of like an apprenticeship to get ready for the big time.

[Koorifuu 1,019]

On 27/07/2023 at 15:34, Tsuchinoninjin said:

I think the more promise someone has the more likely they will be full time tsukebito, it’s kind of like an apprenticeship to get ready for the big time.

My impression was that those expected to be a huge deal were given the privilege of being able to dedicate their whole time to themselves, which could even be part of their recruitment pitch. But my mind's probably muddled and thinking of makushita tsukedashi.

Edited July 29, 2023 by Koorifuu

[Akinomaki 40,739]

Takasago-beya's Asakoki and Asanojo with heya advisor Matsuda (Ichinoya) on the 24th last month were at a home for the elderly in Nagoya and demonstrated sumo, doing sumo also with staff members

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[Akinomaki 40,739]

On 05/06/2023 at 14:03, Akinomaki said:

On 14/05/2023 at 01:57, Akinomaki said:

Meisei has his actor debut. He appears in the new film with Sayuri Yoshinaga, Konnicha hwa okaa-san, as himself. The visuals were released today on Mother's Day.

Tsukebito Byakuen also appears in the film

It was shown in advance at Tatsunami-beya today

now the making of of Meisei's film debut

[Akinomaki 40,739]

The usual activity for sansho winners this time a year

On 22/12/2019 at 11:55, Akinomaki said:

Same procedure as every year 

This year Shodai, Daieisho and Asanoyama helped UNICEF with fund raising (maybe they are more generous with sansho for Kyushu and for the Aki basho before the red feather campaign?)

Not during Corona times and they were quite rude to the red feather by only awarding one sansho this time: Atamifuji in action today at the fund raising event at the Asakusa-dera, we'll see if they make up for that for UNICEF

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Edited October 1, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,739]

On 05/06/2023 at 14:38, Akinomaki said:

the Tatsunami-beya farm in Tokamachi city, Niigata for the Koshikihari variety 越後情話 Echigojowa brand rice - the name of an enka song of Sachiko Kobayashi

 

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Hoshoryu and others on the 2nd were at the rice planting ceremony together with Sachiko Kobayashi and made chanko nabe

https://tokamachi.yukiguni.town/l-news/193769.html

The farm of about 3000 square meter was created last year, the oyakata was there https://echigojowa.co.jp/topics/50/

Hoshoryu on the 1st was at the Tatsunami-beya farm for the harvest, with other celebrities from the sports and entertainment world oo o o

Edited October 2, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,739]

Yuma and the heya's tokoyama Tokoyu yesterday took part in the 6th rakugo ozumo Enjaku basho of Sanyutei Enjaku - and accordingly Enjaku told the rakugo story "Onomatsu" (here by Sanyutei Ensho  youtube?v=nz4IJwDFmhw), this year the subtitle was "get to know the tokoyama" - in the past Sadanofuji, Tobizaru and last year gyoji Kimura Ginjiro - enjyaku.net/kozinn-rakugokai/#sumo) have been at this event. Several ozumo related entertainment was performed.

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[Akinomaki 40,739]

One of the biggest hype rikishi at the moment: Onosato today was on sumo school duty to clean at the Nomino-Sukune shrine, Aonishiki as well

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of course with shrine visit

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[Akinomaki 40,739]

Takakeisho is PR character for the Hyogo pref. police campaign against drunken driving: Absolute No! ✋ to drunken driving. Push drunken drivers out (oshidashi) of society

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Last year he was on the prefecture PR poster for tsunami disaster drill

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[Akinomaki 40,739]

Sadanoumi on the 1st held a chanko nabe serving event for the locals in his hometown Kumamoto, the 3rd time he did this, last year two times.

First he had a walk in the shopping district and talk show with the chairman of its PR agency, showed shiko stamping and served chanko.

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Last September: o

[Akinomaki 40,739]

The 3 Nishonoseki sekitori on the 18th were at the event in heya location Ami town to celebrate the 50 000th inhabitant (enough to become a city),

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one of these 2 babies born on Oct 30th

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Edited February 19, 2024 by Akinomaki

[RabidJohn 1,850]

Wow, there must be a hell of a lot of cities in Japan!

I live between Scunthorpe in North LIncs. and Doncaster in South Yorks. 

Early internet problem town Scunthorpe has a population over 80k, but Doncaster has over 100k and remained a town until the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2022 when it was made a city by royal charter.

So in the UK we have some huge towns and tiny cities, the City of London being one of them. It's miniscule.

Edited February 19, 2024 by RabidJohn

[Akinomaki 40,739]

On 24/04/2023 at 10:28, Akinomaki said:

On 23/04/2018 at 15:44, Akinomaki said:

On 21/04/2014 at 17:29, Akinomaki said:

At the Welfare ministry today: the Koi-nobori banner hoisting ceremony for the child welfare week starting on kids day (5.5.) with Kakuryu and Sakana-kun
Kyodo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwUarlmJwvU

The traditional event with always Sakana-kun, again with Kakuryu and also Kumamon this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sxjPc0IRXI

Another traditional event revived, now at the new Children and Families Agency - Kiribayama was there with the obligatory Sakana-kun (behind him)

That was after 5 years again -  the announcement with last time photos shows 2018.  I thought I simply didn't find the 2019 event.

This year's announcement with photos from the event with Kiribayama https://www.cfa.go.jp/assets/contents/node/basic_page/field_ref_resources/ddf39553-0064-472a-8f11-a8e68abdd697/c236ec24/20240415_ddf39553-0064-472a-8f11-a8e68abdd697_02.pdf

Back to regular today for the Koi-nobori banner hoisting ceremony, Kotonowaka was at the Children and Families Agency with Sakana-kun and Kumamon o

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Except that because of the bad weather, it took place indoors

 

Edited April 22, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,739]

On 05/06/2023 at 14:38, Akinomaki said:

More from Tatsunami-beya, from the Tatsunami-beya farm in Tokamachi city, Niigata for the Koshikihari variety 越後情話 Echigojowa brand rice - the name of an enka song of Sachiko Kobayashi  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5SN39f7wUs

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Hoshoryu and others on the 2nd were at the rice planting ceremony together with Sachiko Kobayashi and made chanko nabe

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https://tokamachi.yukiguni.town/l-news/193769.html

The farm of about 3000 square meter was created last year, the oyakata was there https://echigojowa.co.jp/topics/50/

This year Hoshoryu again was at the farm for the rice planting ceremony together with Sachiko Kobayashi and others, but this time as ozeki - he had sung a duet with Kobayashi at his ozeki promotion party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enShkbRnuzo

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afterwards again chanko prepared by rikishi from the heya

Edited May 31, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,739]

Shirokuma and 7 other Nishonoseki-beya members on the 7th were invited for chanko with new Ibaraki chanko noodles by the vocational school for production of nutrition for medical treatment in Ushiku, near the heya - they have a close connection to the heya and events like this since 2022. o

[Akinomaki 40,739]

Tobizaru frequently appears on TV shows, now also in a fashion show - for KONISHIKI's brand (with Tenbo designer Takafumi Tsuruta) 52tenbo+ - KoniTenbopura (5 =go->Ko, 2=ni) - Spring 2025 kimono collection, presented today in Shibuya https://www.fashion-press.net/collections/20774

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Edited September 3, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 4,108]

Fashion is usually a bit outre to begin with, but I have genuinely mixed feelings about what on earth or under it that Tobizaru is wearing. 

[RabidJohn 1,850]

Oh man, I hope Tobizaru did a proper model strut down the catwalk, because them boys really are having a laugh.

That's all the off-cuts they had lying around the machine shop, stitched together randomly, and slung on to a rikishi. I bet he can't put it on the same way twice!

[Naganoyama 5,945]

Frankly he'd look better in a black refuse sack.

[dingo 1,293]

He's definitely not lacking in confidence though, wearing this shoulder-baring kimono

[Akinomaki 40,739]

On 03/09/2024 at 11:13, RabidJohn said:

Oh man, I hope Tobizaru did a proper model strut down the catwalk, because them boys really are having a laugh.

That's all the off-cuts they had lying around the machine shop, stitched together randomly, and slung on to a rikishi. I bet he can't put it on the same way twice!

There were 2 live streams of the koni-tenpura debut collection event, judge for yourself - he even added an extra pair dance performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7rbfllEJM&t=51m55s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njLtdZlZyjQ&t=42m55s

Japanese and English announcements

- made from old, worn-out kimono

Edit: the live streams have been replaced/edited, the links won't work  - the first stream video is now 38 min long, the 2nd is replaced with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sktlov7P070

Edited September 5, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Churaumi 745]

That's a lot of look.

[Morning 85]

Thanks for the videos.

There's some quite wearable pieces in there and others for which I wish it were acceptable to wear them casually out on the street.

[Bugman Re-Hatched 26]

I can't say the designs were my cup of tea, but then I'm willing to bet fashion is not an easy endeavour either.

The atmosphere of the show seemed pretty cool though, I can see why people would want to spend a fun evening at an event like this.

Edited September 4, 2024 by Bugman Re-Hatched