New recruits March 2024

[Yarimotsu 584]

7 hours ago, RabidJohn said:

Miyagino-san has at least one exception (to prove the rule), but he's far from the only one to go for dinky deshi

He's certainly not the only one, but now it's Kiho, Raiho, Enho and Matsui all struggling to make 170 on a good day. If you include Jonidan rikishi he does in fact now have 7 such rikishi. Having recently been in Japan, yes it's a normal height amongst adult men there - however on the dohyo is another matter.

[Kaitetsu 294]

Nishonoseki has 2 new recruits, Endo Daishin (遠藤大心, same surname as maegashira Endo) 15 year old from Ami city, Ibaraki prefecture, will make his debut in March.

The not-for-long-Endo and the stablemaster at his school.

 

And Matsuzawa Yoshihiro(?) (松澤美博), 15 year old from Saigo town in Fukushima prefecture. Nishonoseki doesn't say that he will or will not start in March, just saying that he has joined.

(Source: Nishonoseki-beya Twitter page)

 

[RabidJohn 1,795]

@Yarimotsu The dinky deshi trend continues and Nishonoseki-san is playing catch up. ^

[Akinomaki 40,621]

Yuma Hamada  濱田優誠 (17, 169cm, 100kg) from Tsubata town, 3rd year at Kanazawa-gakuin-dai attached high school joins Shikoroyama-beya, (still) Tatsutagawa was at the school today: "He's small, but does interesting sumo."

in August 2022 with same town, same youth club shusshin Onosato, who came for a visit

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Hamada started at the club in 5th grade, after losing to a smaller kid at a tournament. In middle school he suffered from spondylolysis, in 2nd year high school he was runner-up at the pref. newcomer tournament, but due to knee and back injuries didn't enter national tournaments. He wanted to quit sumo with high school, but got the motivation to go on by the success of his 2 gentle "o-niichan" friends Onosato and Oshoumi. He was at several heya and was approached by Shikoroyama-beya, where the 2 high school sempai Seigo and Kawabuchi are members, he'll be the 12th from the school's sumo club to join ozumo.

The oyakata wants him to become like Endo and Enho and give vigour to the disaster stricken locals. His main goal is to become the 3rd sekitori from the town, and he wants to have bouts once with the other 2, Onosato and Oshoumi.

[Bunbukuchagama 732]

 

3 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

He's small

...and the march of the dwarfs continues.

[Tochinofuji 385]

On 16/02/2024 at 09:43, RabidJohn said:

Miyagino-san has at least one exception (to prove the rule), but he's far from the only one to go for dinky deshi. Check out any recent 'New recruits for ...' thread and you'll see quite a few oyakata standing next to a new recruit who's several inches shorter. 

I've nothing against it if they turn out like Ura or Midorifuji, but I'm less thrilled by Roy Batty types like Ishiura and Enho.

Roy Batty types? I love Blade Runner, but must admit I can't follow the reference! 

[RabidJohn 1,795]

8 hours ago, Tochinofuji said:

Roy Batty types? I love Blade Runner, but must admit I can't follow the reference! 

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very brightly."

[Tochinofuji 385]

8 hours ago, RabidJohn said:

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very brightly."

Perfect quote and explanation. Very much appreciated!! 

[Akinomaki 40,621]

Proper size recruit for Takadagawa-beya: Kirimaru Kokufugata (15, 181cm, 120kg), from Tsuru, Yamanashi - already decided as 2nd year (180cm, 108kg):

Recommended by his grandad he started sumo in 5th grade. He was 2 years in a row in the individuals at national middle school tournaments and once in the team. During the Kofu jungyo 2 years ago he received again an autograph of Ryuden and that led to an experience stay at the heya, after which his entry was decided (he first met Ryuden at the 2019 Kofu jungyo) - with the dream to surpass first Ryuden and then Hakuho and Futabayama.

He had a farewell party today at Tsuru First middle school, with his family and the oyakata, and received the graduation certificate earlier than his classmates.

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Totally different voice now, goal the same: Become yokozuna as fast as possible

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Edited February 21, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Kintamayama 45,202]

Sora's Sandanme tsukedashi qualification was acknowledged today. Tokitsukaze beya.

Edited February 23, 2024 by Kintamayama

[Koorifuu 1,003]

On 16/02/2024 at 20:06, Yamanashi said:

Hey, thanks, pal, I got a mental picture of Hokuseiho as Snow White and had to send back my lunch order.

That's taken quite the twist since, hasn't it?

Turns out Hokuseiho's version of Snow White was more like Rammstein's take! (ref: look up "Rammstein - Sonne" on YouTube)

Edited February 23, 2024 by Koorifuu

[Yubinhaad 11,712]

On 21/02/2024 at 12:53, Akinomaki said:

Proper size recruit for Takadagawa-beya: Kirimaru Kokufugata (15, 181cm, 120kg), from Tsuru, Yamanashi - already decided as 2nd year (180cm, 108kg):

Recommended by his grandad he started sumo in 5th grade. He was 2 years in a row in the individuals at national middle school tournaments and once in the team. During the Kofu jungyo 2 years ago he received again an autograph of Ryuden and that led to an experience stay at the heya, after which his entry was decided (he first met Ryuden at the 2019 Kofu jungyo) - with the dream to surpass first Ryuden and then Hakuho and Futabayama.

He had a farewell party today at Tsuru First middle school, with his family and the oyakata, and received the graduation certificate earlier than his classmates.

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I never knew there was a shindeshi variant of the "retired sekitori has tie adjusted by his wife" pictures:

[Yubinhaad 11,712]

Joining Kasugano-beya is 18-year-old Yutaro Shintani? (新谷 雄太朗) from Miura, Kanagawa prefecture. He's been involved in sumo since elementary school, and won the Wanpaku Sumo Miura Basho in three successive years. Later on he helped Minoshima High School in Wakayama prefecture to third place in the team competition at the Inter-high.

Send-off party in Miura:

Otowayama-beya has another recruit for the Haru basho, the only information offered so far is his shikona: 象竜. Zoryu?

Here he is on the left, new Takeuchi brother in the middle, Hakuryu on the right.

 

Asakayama-beya also has three recruits this basho, pictured below on banzuke-folding duty. I don't know which is which, but the names are 氏家 (Ujiie?), 中山 (Nakayama) and 玉置 (Tamaki?).

[Chartorenji 237]

Probably good for Asakayama to start recruiting heavily again. Kaisho looks unlikely to make it back to Juryo for a while. Having a younger Kaisei to recruit has to help too 

[Akinomaki 40,621]

15 hours ago, Yubinhaad said:

for Takadagawa-beya: Kirimaru Kokufugata (15, 181cm, 120kg), from Tsuru, Yamanashi - already decided as 2nd year (180cm, 108kg):

He had a farewell party today at Tsuru First middle school, with his family and the oyakata

Quite a celebrity in Yamanashi, judging from the so far 2 video designs by local TV, even in middle school

[Akinomaki 40,621]

Takadagawa was at another new recruit farewell party yesterday, for Norifumi Narita 成田憲史 (173cm, 107kg), 3rd year at Ochiai middle school in Maniwa, Okayama. He had an experience stay in the heya last October and decided to go into ozumo, from the city the brothers Maniwayama and Sachinoyama are in the heya - and it is one hometown of Kimura Shonosuke as well (he went to primary school there). Narita wants to catch up with the other 2 (moderate task, they are jd and jk)

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[Akinomaki 40,621]

On 27/02/2024 at 23:21, Yubinhaad said:

Joining Kasugano-beya is 18-year-old Yutaro Niiya (新谷 雄太朗) from Miura, Kanagawa prefecture. He's been involved in sumo since elementary school, and won the Wanpaku Sumo Miura Basho in three successive years. Later on he helped Minoshima High School in Wakayama prefecture to third place in the team competition at the Inter-high.

Yutaro Niiya 新谷　雄太朗（にいや・ゆうたろう）(180cm, 135kg from last August)  started sumo in 5th grade at the Yokohama Konan sumo club and the Yokosuga Aoi sumo dojo. Middle school at Kashiwa dai-2 middle school (classmate of Shunrai from Tatsunami-beya), he was captain in the team there and vice captain at the Minoshima High sumo club. Kasugano-oyakata is his dai-sempai from the school, sempai Wakazakura and Tochimusashi are at the heya. Best individual result was a best 8 at the national select Hirosaki tournament February last year.

The captain of the Minoshima High sumo club goes to Fujishima-beya, open weight and team junior world champion Tenga Noda 野田　典雅（のだ・てんが ） (183cm, 125kg from last October) from Osaka pref., he started sumo in 3rd grade at the Higashi-Osaka sumo dojo and was also at Minoshima middle school - at last we have him properly in the thread, read again from the beginning: http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/43495-new-recruits-march-2024/

Their graduation ceremony is on March 1st, they take part and move to Osaka, the shindeshi kensa is on the 2nd

Niiya, coach, Noda

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[Akinomaki 40,621]

A new low, after last year 33 now 27 new recruits for the worst ever Haru basho https://www.47news.jp/10589271.html

13 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

Feb. 29th, 1992 was the biggest ever shindeshi kensa, 160 new recruits: enough for 3 full years now, after Hatsu with the first yusho of Takahanada at the record young age of 19y5m. http://www.47news.jp/news/10586637.html

Now both a dream and a nightmare for the NSK:

Kyokutenho and Kyokushuzan on the left in a record breaking group of 6 Mongolians for Oshima-beya sumodb.sumogames.de/Banzuke.aspx?b=199203&heya=-1&shusshin=59

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Edited February 29, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,621]

8 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Yutaro Niiya 新谷　雄太朗（にいや・ゆうたろう）(180cm, 135kg from last August) 

Kasugano-oyakata is his dai-sempai from the school, sempai Wakazakura and Tochimusashi are at the heya.

The captain of the Minoshima High sumo club goes to Fujishima-beya, open weight and team junior world champion Tenga Noda 野田　典雅（のだ・てんが ） (183cm, 125kg from last October) from Osaka pref.,

Noda is now reported as 184cm, 130kg, Niiya as 179cm, 125kg.

Niiya had injured his right knee last April and thought about quitting sumo, but the coach gave him the motivation to go on: "Even if you leave sumo, what you wanted to do was sumo." He wants to do bout by bout without getting injured and become a successful rikishi. Another sempai in the heya is Iwatomo (Kimurayama)

Niiya and Noda yesterday at the club

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Niiya June 3rd, Noda Sep. 28th

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[Akinomaki 40,621]

There is Matsui, and another new recruit joins Miyagino-beya - this is the last then. Apparently a Mongolian half, (guess:) Enerel Ayumu Ono 小野歩エネレル, 18y old without sumo experience, from rugby background. Both already are (completely innocent, but confined like the others) at the heya and take part in keiko. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/02/29/kiji/20240229s00005000420000c.html

[Akinomaki 40,621]

On 16/10/2018 at 14:04, Akinomaki said:

Ooki Shirakawa 白川大貴  (18, 182cm, 160kg) from the Kagawa prefecture Takamatsu Minami high school sumo club enters Oitekaze-beya

Taiyo Shirakawa  白川 大陽 （しらかわ・たいよう）(188cm, 175kg)  joins his brother Daikisho at Oitekaze-beya. Winner with the Nichidai team at the East Japan student championships, best individual result a 3rd place in the above 135kg category at the national student weight class championships. He already trains at the heya, 17-0 against sempai Satsumasho and 4 other jd.

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His younger brother Daito 大翔 is 2nd year at Nichidai, he absolutely has to join there, that would make Oitekaze-beya a heya with 2 sets of triplets:

The 3rd Kajino brother joins the heya as well, Kira Kajino 梶野煌 (15), after Daiyusho (who joined with real name Ishioka) and Daihisho - the 3rd set after the Onamis at Arashio and the Kiyotas at Dewanoumi, Kiyota, Kiyonohana and Kiyonoyama

On 03/01/2023 at 11:52, Akinomaki said:

The 3rd of the Kiyota brothers - also from Fukushima pref., from Koriyama city - Teppei 清田哲平 (15, 175cm, 89kg)  joins Dewanoumi-beya, where the eldest Kiyota and the 2nd Kiyonohana are active, sons of ms Kiyonoumi from the same heya, now  rijicho of the local sumo fan club. They lack a sekitori as grandfather, but have the same goal as the Onami's, sekitori at the same time. The eldest dropped back to jd after a neck injury and is now in sd again, the 2nd dropped back to jd after makekoshi last basho.

Edited March 1, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Katooshu 3,250]

Around Otani level, although with notable improvement between years 3 and 4, so perhaps he's only recently found what works for him and has more potential for growth. 

Edited March 1, 2024 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 40,621]

Most for a heya this time are 3 new recruits, 3 heya have that: Otowayama, Nishonoseki and Asakayama-beya o

On 28/02/2024 at 15:05, Akinomaki said:

Takadagawa was at another new recruit farewell party yesterday, for Norifumi Narita 成田憲史 (173cm, 107kg), 3rd year at Ochiai middle school in Maniwa, Okayama. He had an experience stay in the heya last October and decided to go into ozumo, from the city the brothers Maniwayama and Sachinoyama are in the heya - and it is one hometown of Kimura Shonosuke as well (he went to primary school there). Narita wants to catch up with the other 2 (moderate task, they are jd and jk)

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Local TV about Narita and his personal graduation party

On 29/02/2024 at 00:29, Akinomaki said:

Joining Kasugano-beya is 18-year-old Yutaro Niiya (新谷 雄太朗) from Miura, Kanagawa prefecture. He's been involved in sumo since elementary school, and won the Wanpaku Sumo Miura Basho in three successive years.

Niiya now:

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Miura Basho yusho as 6th year

Edited March 1, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,621]

Graduation day: at Oita Hita-rinko high, sumo club member Kazuki Iwamoto 岩元風樹  (170cm, 145kg), Hita local, afterwards had the press conference to join Ikazuchi-beya. The oyakata was at the school for the announcement today. He started with sumo age 3 and wanted to become a rikishi from early on, one loved and supported by all, aiming for yokozuna. He won at the prefecture interhigh and was at national tournaments. o o

[Akinomaki 40,621]

At Hyogo Hotoku gakuen high in Nishinomiya, Keigo Imamura 今村圭吾（180cm, 115kg) from Itami, the 3rd for Nishonseki-beya. Best 16 at the kokutai and best 8 at the March national select tournament. The oyakata was there today - Imamura was his big fan: at his yokozuna yusho Haru 2017, he ran after him till the outside. He wants to become sekitori within 5 years.

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https://www.hotoku.ac.jp/news/24822

Edited March 1, 2024 by Akinomaki