I have photos with famous people

[Kintamayama 45,145]

[Rocks 1,809]

Moti thinking "These photos were a lot more fun when I had hair too, but I'll treasure it anyway."

[Benihana 1,929]

This is the result when an extremely good looking man shaves his beard...so sad.

[Jakusotsu 5,981]

11 hours ago, Benihana said:

This is the result when an extremely good looking man shaves his beard...so sad.

It's the other way around actually.

[Kintamayama 45,145]

Let's ramp it up a bit, hair or no hair, beard or no beard..

Edited March 28, 2019 by Kintamayama

[Kintamayama 45,145]

On 26/03/2019 at 21:28, Benihana said:

This is the result when an extremely good looking man shaves his beard...so sad.

This was before I could afford a beard.

[Eikokurai 3,437]

You look like a young Michael Moore-style 90s investigative documentary maker in that photo with Takanohana. I’m imagining that you just walked up to him uninvited and started grilling him about some sumo scandal or other. 

“Can you look me in the eye and tell me you’ve never fixed a bout? Lies! All lies!”

[Kintamayama 45,145]

On 30/03/2019 at 19:41, Eikokurai said:

You look like a young Michael Moore-style 90s investigative documentary maker in that photo with Takanohana. I’m imagining that you just walked up to him uninvited and started grilling him about some sumo scandal or other. 

“Can you look me in the eye and tell me you’ve never fixed a bout? Lies! All lies!”

1998. Different era. The main worry was if his chiropractor was brainwashing him.

[Eikokurai 3,437]

2 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

1998. Different era. The main worry was if his chiropractor was brainwashing him.

There’s always someone putting Takanohana’s back up.

Out of curiosity, how good would you say your Japanese is? I presume you actually chat with the rikishi you meet.

[Kintamayama 45,145]

22 hours ago, Eikokurai said:

There’s always someone putting Takanohana’s back up.

Out of curiosity, how good would you say your Japanese is? I presume you actually chat with the rikishi you meet.

My Japanese is good enough to chat and even be funny.. you can get a sense here..  Bear in mind that I left Japan when i was 13 (52 years ago), and I don't get a chance to use my Japanese a lot, but I can still manage.

[Gernobono 466]

5 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

My Japanese is good enough to chat and even be funny.. 

I can't bring myself to believe that your kind of humour (i like btw), is the kind of humour an average japanese thinks is funny.....

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

3 hours ago, Gernobono said:

I can't bring myself to believe that your kind of humour (i like btw), is the kind of humour an average japanese thinks is funny.....

There just happen to be plenty of characters in Japan, just like everywhere else.

[Kintamayama 45,145]

9 hours ago, Gernobono said:

I can't bring myself to believe that your kind of humour (i like btw), is the kind of humour an average japanese thinks is funny.....

Actually, I grew up in Japan during my formative years (1-13) and a lot of my sense of humor derives from the Japanese-word play and mostly because a tractor does not eat fish for breakfast.

[Yamanashi 3,847]

2 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

Actually, I grew up in Japan during my formative years (1-13) and a lot of my sense of humor derives from the Japanese-word play and mostly because a tractor does not eat fish for breakfast.

So YOU invented Google Translate.

[Naganoyama 5,913]

7 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

Actually, I grew up in Japan during my formative years (1-13) and a lot of my sense of humor derives from the Japanese-word play and mostly because a tractor does not eat fish for breakfast.

No, because of course a tractor is a vegetarian, eating mostly cereal crops and grass.

[Otokonoyama 2,735]

Strong like ox, smart like tractor.

[Kintamayama 45,145]

During the between basho lull, a few more..

Wakanohana;

Chiyotaikai:

 

My favorite-Hoshitango-the Jewish rikishi:

 

Some Makushita guy back in May 2000:

 

 

 

[Kintamayama 45,145]

And from two months ago:

 

[Eikokurai 3,437]

I looked up Hoshitango and noticed both his real name and shikona include ‘Imachi’. Apparently this can mean ‘sitting while waiting’ in Japanese (居待ち), which is just perfect for a rikishi.*

I also noticed he suffered the ignominy of going 0-15 in Juryo once. Ouch. That was his final basho as a sekitori.

 

*Yes, I’m aware those aren’t the characters of his name. I thought perhaps he had some Japanese heritage as ‘Imachi’ sounds somewhat Japanese, so I looked it up to see if it’s a Japanese name and came across this other word.

Edited July 28, 2019 by Eikokurai

[Kintamayama 45,145]

4 hours ago, Eikokurai said:

 

I also noticed he suffered the ignominy of going 0-15 in Juryo once. Ouch. That was his final basho as a sekitori

 

He was 37 years old by then I think.

[Benihana 1,929]

What? That hoshi is from Argentina? TANGO! Glad he didn't hail from Spain und entered sumo in the mid 90s...Hoshimacarena would've been too much.

Edited July 28, 2019 by Benihana

[Kintamayama 45,145]

38 minutes ago, Benihana said:

What? That hoshi is from Argentina? TANGO! Glad he didn't hail from Spain und entered sumo in the mid 90s...Hoshimacarena would've been too much.

There were two. The other one was Hoshiandesu.