Questions For Kintamayama

[x77x 0]

*1 per post please*

ill start...

who in the hell is the old guy with the white and red tophat with the red, white and green jacket? (in the crowd)

=)

Edited August 1, 2016 by x77x

[Kintamayama 45,505]

That's Orimpikku Jijii- a famous fan with a famous fan. Translation- Olympic Old Fart.

[Orion 431]

That's Orimpikku Jijii- a famous fan with a famous fan. Translation- Olympic Old Fart.

Notorious for self-promotion at minimal expense. When he sits in a front seat it's because he's made friends with the people who have really paid for it. Once tried to climb into the NHK box (which had a special guest) and was firmly refused. Surely there's already an old thread about this?

Orion

[d_golem 213]

My turn :-D

What started your fascination with sumo? and what's keeping the fire going until now?

PS : Oh and what do you do in your "spare" time away from sumo stuff?

Edited August 2, 2016 by d_golem

[CT3* 331]

Notorious for self-promotion at minimal expense. When he sits in a front seat it's because he's made friends with the people who have really paid for it. Once tried to climb into the NHK box (which had a special guest) and was firmly refused. Surely there's already an old thread about this?

Orion

http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=29205

[CT3* 331]

That's Orimpikku Jijii- a famous fan with a famous fan. Translation- Olympic Old Fart.

I tried to get a picture with him last year at the Kokugikan, but he was surrounded by too many people.

[Kintamayama 45,505]

My turn :-D

What started your fascination with sumo? and what's keeping the fire going until now?

PS : Oh and what do you do in your "spare" time away from sumo stuff?

I grew up in Japan in the late fifties/early sixties and watched Taihou and Kashiwado etc as I was growing up. Then I left and got back into sumo in the early 90s with the advent of the Internet bless its soul. Sheer love of the sport keeps the mansion running. Spare time-I'm a professional musician so it's actually the other way around. I also like to eat, sleep and am addicted to Words with Friends and Word Streak which I have been playing for an hour every morning for the last three years as brain calisthenics, for at my age I must kick-start my brain daily otherwise mush mush mush. I like the power of words, the beauty of sumo, the life of rock and roll, and Humus.

Edited August 2, 2016 by Kintamayama

[x77x 0]

gold hat, interesting... ive only seen white and red... maybe cuz im a noob =P

[808morgan 814]

*1 per post please*

ill start...

who in the hell is the old guy with the white and red tophat with the red, white and green jacket? (in the crowd)

=)

You must mean gold hat, he usually has a very shiny gold one. I met him last May, nice guy.

Edited August 3, 2016 by 808morgan

[hamcornheinz 839]

Ok my question for Kinta: Top 5 sumo bouts of all time, ranked.

[Kintamayama 45,505]

Ok my question for Kinta: Top 5 sumo bouts of all time, ranked.

I can't do that.. Simply because there are too many. The biggest one for me was the Takanohana-Musashimaru playoff, not because the bout itself was so great, but because it was SO great.

[Fukurou 534]

Ok my question for Kinta: Top 5 sumo bouts of all time, ranked.

I can't do that.. Simply because there are too many. The biggest one for me was the Takanohana-Musashimaru playoff, not because the bout itself was so great, but because it was SO great.

Hatsu 2001? Natsu 2001?

[Akinomaki 40,760]

who in the hell is the old guy with the white and red tophat with the red, white and green jacket? (in the

You must mean gold hat, he usually has a very shiny gold one.

At the danpatsu-shiki of Kyokutenho he didn't wear a hat at all: https://youtu.be/6rg_ynoOGxU?t=8m19s

- he was doing some odd things - but all played along and the crowd loved him.

Olympic oji-san was going around the tamari-seki to important cutters and let them sign a poster of Kyokutenho - I thought he would do something else, but didn't think he'd have a cut.

An unusual applause for a plain cutter made me look inside and he already was stepping down from the dohyo.

There was a lot on TV on him last week as he turned 90 now and Rio is coming, I think he runs 2 hotels. Edited August 3, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Kintamayama 45,505]

Ok my question for Kinta: Top 5 sumo bouts of all time, ranked.

I can't do that.. Simply because there are too many. The biggest one for me was the Takanohana-Musashimaru playoff, not because the bout itself was so great, but because it was SO great.

Hatsu 2001? Natsu 2001?

Natsu -the devil face one. The one Akinomaki likes too..

[RabidJohn 1,855]

Is it true that you coined the word 'gambarize'?

If so, many congratulations on coming up with one that's stuck!

[Kintamayama 45,505]

Is it true that you coined the word 'gambarize'?

If so, many congratulations on coming up with one that's stuck!

Yes, I did. There was a real need..I coined a few others but they never stuck. Except for the neck thing.

[Koorifuu 1,020]

Just how many languages can you speak?

[Atenzan 1,084]

Is it true that you coined the word 'gambarize'?

If so, many congratulations on coming up with one that's stuck!

Yes, I did. There was a real need..I coined a few others but they never stuck. Except for the neck thing.

Somewhere amid all the keruffle there is a pun waiting to be made involving "sansho de kubi ga mawaranai".

[Kintamayama 45,505]

Just how many languages can you speak?

Three - Hebrew, English and Japanese. I can get by with French and a bit of Arabic.

Edited August 4, 2016 by Kintamayama

[Orion 431]

Is it true that you coined the word 'gambarize'?

If so, many congratulations on coming up with one that's stuck!

Yes, I did. There was a real need..I coined a few others but they never stuck. Except for the neck thing.

I think your fake plural(s) for "yokozuna" got into Collins Dictionary. I sent them a polite note saying that Japanese doesn't have plurals and words like "yokozunae" or "yokozuni" (?) were insider jokes.

Orion wearing one of her other hats

[Kintamayama 45,505]

I think your fake plural(s) for "yokozuna" got into Collins Dictionary. I sent them a polite note saying that Japanese doesn't have plurals and words like "yokozunae" or "yokozuni" (?) were insider jokes.

Orion wearing one of her other hats

Wow.. that is cool!! I made it into the urban dictionary with gambarize, but Collins is better.. I know Japanese doesn't have plurals but I think as foreign sumo fans who need the plural "feel', Yokozunae should be allowed. It's not Yokozunas which is very pleb-it's the high-brow Yokozunae.. I will start a petition.

Some day.

Edited August 4, 2016 by Kintamayama

[Benihana 1,937]

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/yokozuna

[d_golem 213]

Is it true that you coined the word 'gambarize'?

If so, many congratulations on coming up with one that's stuck!

Yes, I did. There was a real need..I coined a few others but they never stuck. Except for the neck thing.

I thought gambarize is a proper Japanese expression??

Edit: ah, found the urbandictionary article. Very nice.

Another question : what other terms have you coined and haven't yet stick? We'll make sure it does :)

Edited August 4, 2016 by d_golem

[rhyen 1,846]

Your favourite era/year for ozumo and why.

[Kintamayama 45,505]

Another question : what other terms have you coined and haven't yet stick? We'll make sure it does :)

Oshiwashi, slippiotoshi, Yokozunae, Johnny Dunne (fifth division), 9-Joe, and others I forgot along the way and probably rightly so..

Edited August 4, 2016 by Kintamayama