Kitanoumi kyokai funeral

[Akinomaki 40,569]

The official kyokai funeral for Kitanoumi in the kokugikan on the 22nd is about to become the biggest ever, with about 1000 NSK related persons taking part: including all sandanme and above rikishi and all urakata (from gyoji to sewanin). The oyakata will not be in suits but all in Japanese style formal attire.

With fans more than 5000 persons are a real possibility.

This will have very many pics and videos, so I put it in an extra topic.

the first videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMbBund1FLw

Edited December 22, 2015 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,569]

900 members of the sumo kyokai and 1600 from the outside (ex members included) were at the kyokai funeral today. The flag at the kokugikan was again at half-mast.
Later about 1600 fans expressed their condolences - not the about 2500 which would have made it 5000 in all. It was the 23rd kyokai funeral, the last was 10 years ago for Takanohana I, with 800 kyokai members and 4000 fans, which thus remains the one with the biggest attendance.
http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1582558.html
TBS video: http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye2664492.html

Link to paste into VLC or similar media players to watch and record or save the raw input of the video:
rtmp://flv.nhk.or.jp/ondemand/flv/news/k10010349621_201512221723_201512221727.mp4
NHK news page (remains for a week): http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20151222/k10010349621000.html
The video remains for a month.







th family arrives with the funerary urn





























Funeral service chairman Hakkaku rijicho reads the memorial address





the yokozuna in the back, looks like Miyagino-oyakata next, behind Myogiryu and Tochiozan



Toyonoshima in the corner

with Terunofuji, Tochinoshin, Okinoumi, ex-Tomonohana, -Mitoizumi (Nishikido), -Kitakachidoki (Isenoumi), -Takamisugi, -Ryogoku (Sakaigawa)

Hakuho, Kakuryu











Ichinojo

Endo

ex: Asashoryu, Wakanohana



Tospo

Kyokudozan







ex prime ministers: Mori

Hatoyama

I skip the other external guests
the family leaves









memorial pics
the 1 million yen wedding cake

a duet with his wife at the Kyushu 2013 senshuraku party

Edited December 26, 2015 by Akinomaki

[Manekineko 200]

Who is the lady who walked in the procession before the widow? (Hakkaku, some oyakata(?), the lady, the widow with the tablet, the sons with ashes and the photo).

The photos made me tear up. Sniff.

Edited December 23, 2015 by Manekineko

[Naganoyama 5,927]

Is 'some oyakata' Yamahibiki?

If so, is the lady Mrs Yamahibiki?

Or perhaps Mrs Hakkaku?

[Manekineko 200]

Another source had the same idea as Naganoyama (Yamahbiki and his okamisan), so that sounds right.

[CT3* 331]

Akinomaki

Thank you so much for sharing these photographs. Much respect to you.