New recruits for Hatsu 2019

[Akinomaki 40,783]

Ooki Shirakawa 白川大貴  (18, 182cm, 160kg) from the Kagawa prefecture Takamatsu Minami high school sumo club enters Oitekaze-beya and will be in the shindeshi kensa for the Hatsu-basho and in maezumo, to have his dohyo debut at the Haru basho (here maezumo does not count). He'll be the 3rd from this school to enter the sumo world.

He won the Shikoku high school tournament in June, but lost in the 2nd round of the interhigh best 32 decider http://kirokukensaku.net/0IH18/detail_20180804_12002020260.html

just like last year

On 05/08/2017 at 16:37, Akinomaki said:

Shirakawa (Takamatsu) made it to the 2nd day, but not to the best 32

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He had thought about proceeding to university, but decided to go for the challenge in ozumo. During primary school he had visited the heya's location for the Haru basho and made the decision to enter Oitekaze-beya.

The oyakata: "Depending on his efforts, makuuchi is not just a dream. If he won't get injured, he'll make it to juryo for a start." - he wants him to further polish his specialty oshi-zumo

Shirakawa: "Getting used to the environment, without thinking about the future, I want to do my best to concentrate on the one bout after the other in front of me ."

http://www.shikoku-np.co.jp/sports/local/article.aspx?id=20181016000133

the oyakata was at the school on the 15th for the announcement

Edited October 16, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Asashosakari 19,655]

8 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

(...) will be in the shindeshi kensa for the Hatsu-basho and in maezumo, to have his dohyo debut at the Haru basho (here maezumo does not count).

That doesn't make any sense and probably means the writer at his local paper has no idea what "hatsu-dohyo" actually means.

Edited October 16, 2018 by Asashosakari

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Joining Sadogatake-beya is 17-year-old Koki Susumu (進 洸希) from Ibigawa town in Ibi District, Gifu prefecture. Currently a third-year student and member of the judo department at Chukyo High School in Mizunami, Gifu. The former principal of the school is a close friend of the heya's koenkai chairman, and through them Susumu received an invitation to visit the heya, which he did in his first year at the school. After several more visits he decided he would later join ozumo.

Sadogatake-oyakata (former Sekiwake Kotonowaka) visited the school for a press conference with his new deshi.

 

Spoiler

Susumu received flowers from a fellow judoka and someone else.

Double no-flag.

With the shisho.

A rousing send-off from his friends in the judo department.

 

[Akinomaki 40,783]

Yuuto Suzuki 鈴木優斗 (18, 181cm, 150kg) from Hiryu high (in Numazu, Shizuoka) joins Fujishima-beya. 3rd at the interhigh, 2nd in the national select tournament in March and yusho there with the team. Getting to makuuchi and perform successfully is his goal, he wants to do sumo like the oyakata (Musoyama). http://www.daily.co.jp/general/2018/12/12/0011898459.shtml

The oyakata was at the school today.

local NHK video: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/shizuoka/20181212/3030001410.html

local TV https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20181212-00000006-sut-l22

to get the video outside of Japan: youtube-dl  https://gw-yvpub.c.yimg.jp/v1/hls/XJRdi1uO3GKmQKgR/video.m3u8

Edited December 20, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Joining Fujishima-beya is 18-year-old Yuto? Suzuki (鈴木 優斗), currently in his final year at Hiryu high school in Numazu, Shizuoka prefecture. He started doing sumo in elementary school, his power caught the eye of Fujishima-oyakata (former Ozeki Musoyama) and he later visited the heya for keiko while in middle school. Earlier this year he reached the semi-finals of the interhigh competition, and helped the school to third place in the team competition.

He currently stands at 181cm, 150kg and is a tsuki-oshi specialist, wanting to do sumo like the shisho. He also hopes to meet his "natural enemy" Daisuke Saito (high school Yokozuna) on the ozumo dohyo, having lost five times to him across their school years.

Edit: Ahh, just too slow!  Picture removed as it's above.

 

Edited December 12, 2018 by Yubinhaad

[Katooshu 3,334]

From what I've seen he looks pretty handy. He was in the recent Otoi-ozumo event with Hoshoryu and Naya, where he crushed some jonokuchi/jonidan rikishi. His style and build are like Musoyama's.

I'm hoping his 'enemy' Saito turns pro as well...he is the complete package. 

Edited December 12, 2018 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 40,783]

On 06/12/2018 at 22:55, Yubinhaad said:

Joining Sadogatake-beya is 17-year-old Koki Susumu (進 洸希) from Ibigawa town in Ibi District, Gifu prefecture. Currently a third-year student and member of the judo department at Chukyo High School in Mizunami, Gifu. The former principal of the school is a close friend of the heya's koenkai chairman, and through them Susumu received an invitation to visit the heya, which he did in his first year at the school. After several more visits he decided he would later join ozumo.

Future Kotosusumu is 185cm, 140kg and wants to become a gentle rikishi like Kotoshogiku: "A sumo bout is over in seconds, but the fascination is to go for it trying all kinds of things in that time." The oyakata: "I want him to grow into a rikishi his juniors aim to become like." http://www.gifu-np.co.jp/news/20181207/20181207-96366.html

 

On 12/12/2018 at 18:02, Akinomaki said:

Yuuto Suzuki 鈴木優斗 (18, 181cm, 150kg) from Hiryu high (in Numazu, Shizuoka) joins Fujishima-beya. 3rd at the interhigh, 2nd in the national select tournament in March and yusho there with the team. Getting to makuuchi and perform successfully is his goal

the goal is to get there within 4 years

o o  o

Edited December 20, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,783]

On 12/12/2018 at 18:02, Akinomaki said:

Yuuto Suzuki 鈴木優斗 (18, 181cm, 150kg) from Hiryu high (in Numazu, Shizuoka) joins Fujishima-beya.

Suzuki was at the city hall of his hometown Fuji-city today to report to the mayor that he joins the kakkai 角界 (sumo world): "Aiming at 3 years to juryo, 4 to makuuchi". Suzuki as 4th grader had joined the Fuji wampaku sumo club. At Hiryu high he also was team captain. http://www.at-s.com/sports/article/shizuoka/579935.html

[mikawa 1,794]

On 12/12/2018 at 17:02, Akinomaki said:

Yuuto Suzuki 鈴木優斗 (18, 181cm, 150kg) from Hiryu high (in Numazu, Shizuoka) joins Fujishima-beya. 3rd at the interhigh, 2nd in the national select tournament in March and yusho there with the team. Getting to makuuchi and perform successfully is his goal, he wants to do sumo like the oyakata (Musoyama). http://www.daily.co.jp/general/2018/12/12/0011898459.shtml

Suzuki Yuto is definitely someone to look forward to. He has sekitori potential, but his sumo is perhaps a bit one-dimensional (preferring oshi-zumo), which probably explains why he has such a bad record against the much more skilful Saito Daisuke. However, Yuto does have the power, and the build, to make it work, so he'll get to Sandanme in no time. He has a younger brother called Suzuki Manato, who has a much smaller stature, but imo more skilled.

Here's when he led his club, Fuji Wanpaku Sumo Club, to second place at the 11th National Club Championships, narrowly losing to the then dominant Iruma Junior Sumo Club.

Edited December 20, 2018 by mikawa

[Gurowake 4,107]

12 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Suzuki was at the city hall of his hometown Fuji-city today to report to the mayor that he joins the kakkai 角界 (sumo world):

 

As anyone familiar with Google translate can tell you, that actually means "horny world".

(No, it actually doesn't.)

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Joining Takadagawa-beya is 18-year-old Hikaru Hasegawa (長谷川 輝), currently in his final year at Awa High School in Chiba prefecture. Although his background is in judo in middle and high school, his uncle is a former rikishi and so he started thinking about joining ozumo in his second year of high school. He stands at 177cm and 162kg at the moment, with grip tests showing 97kg on the right hand and 80kg on the left.

He will be the first from Awa High School to enter ozumo.

[Akinomaki 40,783]

9 hours ago, Yubinhaad said:

Joining Takadagawa-beya is 18-year-old Hikaru Hasegawa (長谷川 輝), currently in his final year at Awa High School in Chiba prefecture. Although his background is in judo in middle and high school, his uncle is a former rikishi and so he started thinking about joining ozumo in his second year of high school. He stands at 177cm and 162kg at the moment, with grip tests showing 97kg on the right hand and 80kg on the left.

He will be the first from Awa High School to enter ozumo.

I had posted him for Haru, because there was no indicator that he enters already in Hatsu - but as from Chiba it is easier to commute to school than for the one from Hokkaido

On 19/12/2018 at 12:24, Akinomaki said:

Another one without indication of the precise basho

Hikaru Hasegawa 長谷川 輝 (18, 177.7kg, 162.3kg) from Kamogawa-city, 3rd year at Chiba-pref. Awa high school will enter Takadagawa-beya, as the first ever from that high school. Grip power: right 97kg, left 80kg. In middle and high school he did judo, this year he was 3rd in the over 100kg category at the pref. level soutai. One relative is a former rikishi, and in his 2nd year he thought about entering ozumo.

"At least juryo, maegashira, and from there aiming for higher. I want to become a rikishi loved and cheered for by a variety of people."

Ex-Akinoshima: "Building a body that won't get injured, and from there on I want to pack technique into him rapidly. Endeavour doesn't betray." http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/chiba/news/20181219-OYTNT50114.html

the press conference on the 18th with the oyakata at Kamogawa city hall

Edited December 22, 2018 by Akinomaki

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On 13/12/2018 at 10:02, Akinomaki said:

(...)wants to become a gentle rikishi like Kotoshogiku: "A sumo bout is over in seconds, but the fascination is to go for it trying all kinds of things in that time." (...)

[Akinomaki 40,783]

Kamiyama (17, 178cm, 160kg) from Saitama-sakae high joined Kasugano-beya (a natural choice without hesitation) and had the entry press conference today at the heya with the oyakata. The shikona is planned to be Tochikamiyama 栃神山 (or maybe with another reading). He started at the Iruma youth sumo club and there from 2nd grade on caught the eye of Kasugano oyakata. In middle school he took part in keiko at the Kasugano-beya Iruma training camp, and already there had trained with Tochinoshin. He had excellent results this year in his high school club (see below).

"I want to reach makushita within a year"

http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/201812270000616.html

 

interhigh 3rd

On 04/08/2018 at 18:44, Katooshu said:

Former middle school yokozuna Ryuichi Kamiyama made the best 4. He is a teammate of Saito's at Saitama Sakae.

Kokutai juniors runner-up

On 01/10/2018 at 07:48, Akinomaki said:

Saito won the final against Saitama teammate Kamiyama http://kirokukensaku.net/5NS18/detail_20181001_24035020120.html

Edited December 27, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,783]

Today Ryou Kiyama (?) 木山稜  (17, 168cm, 81.5kg) joined the local Nakagawa-beya, as 3rd year from the pref. Mukainooka industrial high sumo club. In middle school he was at the then Kasugayama-beya as his school's a occupation experience, in first year high school he first met Nakagawa-oyakata and told him of his dream to become rikishi. In the heya, Kasugaryu and Yoshikasuga are from Mukainooka industrial high and Kiyama went to the heya to train with his sempai. He aims for sekitori.

http://www.townnews.co.jp/0203/2019/01/01/463647.html

on Dec. 18th the oyakata was at the school

Edited January 1, 2019 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,783]

10 have applied for the shindeshi exam on the 7th, 1 more than last year for Hatsu.

Kamiyama and Suzuki are in the focus, Fujishima-beya has 2 recruits, 1 each are for Nakagawa-, Oitekaze-, Sadogatake-, Onoe-, Tatsunami-, Takadagawa, Kasugano- and Sakaigawa-beya.

http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20190104/sum19010418040005-n1.html

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Good to see Nakagawa making progress, the first new recruit since the heya re/opened. Rumour has it that middle school Yokozuna Ko Yoshii will also enter Nakagawa (in March presumably, after finishing school). That sounds like quite a coup, although I don't really follow middle school sumo enough to know how big a deal it would be. In any case we'll have to wait and see if the rumours are true.

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

10 new recruits passed the physical exam today, being at least 167 cm tall and weighing-in at least 67 kg.

[Kintamayama 45,527]

The new guy in Tatsunami is  (19 years old. 1.82/115 )  須藤将貴 (Masaki Sutou?) and was raised in the Philippines -Filipino mother but has his shusshin as Kanagawa. He arrived in Japan in July and is learning Japanese. Asked why he decided on sumo he answered in English: "I would like to help my family." He says he was introduced to sumo through YouTube. Probably Jason's channel..

 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Kintamayama

[Akinomaki 40,783]

For Onoe-beya Hodaka Isa 伊佐穂嵩, from the Kumamoto Buntoku high sumo club. Shodai's performance was encouragement, esp. because he couldn't train properly for half a year at the school after the Kumamoto quake in 2016 - he trained at home. http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20190107/sum19010717530010-n1.html

with Hakuho in 2010 http://ameblo.jp/sazare-m/entry-10697036344.html

Kamiyama

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Suzuki

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Hasegawa measured by his oyakata

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Edited January 9, 2019 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,783]

Hasegawa wants to start as "Hasegawa", the shikona of his uncle - from the same Kamogawa, Chiba, so it was this Hasegawa

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last year at the city hall of Kamogawa

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Hasegawa was 177.7cm, 162.3kg, grip strength: right 97kg, left 80kg, back strength 280kg - but maybe it was just 180kg and an error by Asahi, because Hochi reported that Suzuki was far away top among the 10 with 195kg - grip strength: 67kg right kg, left 72kg, 181cm, 145kg

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Kamiyama was 179cm, 154kg, grip strength: right 63kg, left 80kg

[Akinomaki 40,783]

On 07/01/2019 at 14:47, Akinomaki said:

For Onoe-beya Hodaka Isa 伊佐穂嵩, from the Kumamoto Buntoku high sumo club. Shodai's performance was encouragement, esp. because he couldn't train properly for half a year at the school after the Kumamoto quake in 2016 - he trained at home.

with Hakuho in 2010 http://ameblo.jp/sazare-m/entry-10697036344.html

His local Kumamoto paper had an article early December last year about Isa joining Onoe-beya, but that paper isn't covered by the ceek search I use to check the papers.

Isa really got into sumo when he won the city tournament as 4th grade - the paper doesn't mention it, but the winners of the tournament (4th-6th grades) got a bout with Hahuko - of which the blog above recorded his - maybe that led to an extra boost in enthusiasm.

He then went to the Shichijo sumo nurture club - he is from Kikuchi-city - and went on to Shichijo middle school, which assembles the members of that first club. During middle school he was runner-up at the pref. level championships. Last year as Buntoku club member his best results was best 8 in the open category of the high school national select tournament. With 167cm, 140kg not tall - Onoe-oyakata, who scouted him: "Moving forward - I saw the good disposition in him."

http://this.kiji.is/442928590784414817?c=92619697908483575

lending his chest to a primary school kid at his old Shichijo sumo nurture club

[Naganoyama 5,948]

NSK data:
SHIKONA	KANJI	NAME	HEYA	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	DOB	BIRTHPLACE
Hasegawa	長谷川	Hasegawa Hikaru	Takadagawa	177	166	18 - May - 2000	Chiba
Isa	伊佐	Isa Hodaka	Onoe	167	135	09 - August - 2000	Kumamoto
Ishizaka	石坂	Ishizaka Kohei	Fujishima	179	146	01 - August - 2000	Nagano
Kamiyama	神山	Kamiyama Ryuichi	Kasugano	179	154	11 - January - 2001	Saitama
Kiyama	木山	Kiyama Ryo	Nakagawa	167	81	25 - January - 2001	Kanagawa
Oishi	大石	Oishi Takanobu	Sakaigawa	179	106	26 - December - 2000	Yamaguchi
Shirakawa	白川	Shirakawa Oki	Oitekaze	182	158	18 - August - 2000	Kagawa
Sudo	須藤	Sudo Masaki	Tatsunami	182	115	13 - April - 1999	Kanagawa
Susumu	進	Susumu Koki	Sadogatake	186	142	01 - March - 2001	Gifu
Suzuki	鈴木	Suzuki Yuto	Fujishima	181	145	26 - July - 2000	Shizuoka

 

[Akinomaki 40,783]

5 returners and 10 new recruits for maezumo this time - NSK

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Kamiyama is Tochikamiyama, NHK had a report after the Ikioi bout

The Hattorizakura fan channel posted day 1 of maezumo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv0Cu863jx0&t=5m40s

Hopefully Miselet will post a video from Abema later (there was no stream on YT today, a sign that it may be quite late at best)

Edited January 15, 2019 by Akinomaki

[Muhomatsu 246]

Who are the five returnees?  I gather that one of them is Terasawa.