New recruits Kyushu 2024

[Asashosakari 19,023]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_dKk76PPRU/

Well, a new recruit at least for the Kyushu shindeshi kensa - Musashigawa's new foreign deshi, brother of its previous one Musashikuni and nephew to the shisho, has announced that he passed his recruiting interview(?) with the Kyokai today. His instagram reel does have him promising to ganbarize for the Kyushu maezumo, but of course it's almost certain that Daniel will have to wait the usual extra two months and we'll only see him mount the dohyo in January.

Short earlier thread: http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/43164-new-musashigawa-hawaiian/

Various individual comments:

On 17/10/2023 at 17:05, Akinomaki said:

On 16/10/2023 at 14:56, Kaitetsu said:

Not really a recruit for this year's Kyushu but probably for the next, Musashigawa has announced on twitter that Musashikuni's younger brother Daniel has joined the stable and has started his period to make a debut in pro-sumo

Not just probably, the above tweet says he had his (obligatory/successful) meeting with NSK officials and got a cultural activities visa the other day - he aims to be at the shindeshi kensa in one year (6 months are enough though, we'll see)

On 18/10/2023 at 01:49, ryafuji said:

On 17/10/2023 at 22:17, Yamanashi said:

Musashikuni is 29 now; how old is his younger brother?

The Musashigawa beya post says he graduated from high school this summer, so 18 presumably. 

On 18/10/2023 at 10:03, Akinomaki said:

Musashigawa-beya today started the 6th Kyushu training camp in Beppu, Oita, after 4 years again, till the 24th - with 15 rikishi - and nephew II

On 21/10/2023 at 23:15, Akinomaki said:

Keiko with kids - nephew Daniel in t-shirt and only watching - at this pace he really needs a year to join the NSK

 

On 03/11/2023 at 22:28, Akinomaki said:

Musashigawa-beya for Kyushu now for the first time stays in Noogata (Kaio's hometown) at the Taga shrine https://tagajinja.net/大相撲-武蔵川部屋宿舎が開設されました/

nephew 2 Daniel

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[Akinomaki 40,098]

The general age limit of so far below 23 for applicants to the shindeshi kensa will be below 25 now, like already for those with an appropriate athlete career https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2024092601112

[Asashosakari 19,023]

On 26/09/2024 at 13:49, Akinomaki said:

The general age limit of so far below 23 for applicants to the shindeshi kensa will be below 25 now, like already for those with an appropriate athlete career https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2024092601112

Do I read that right that those without particular qualifications will have to undergo separate physical tests (presumably the same tests as those under the 167 / 67 size standards)?

[Akinomaki 40,098]

58 minutes ago, Asashosakari said:

Do I read that right that those without particular qualifications will have to undergo separate physical tests (presumably the same tests as those under the 167 / 67 size standards)?

Indeed, they have to pass (a) separate physical test(s), I hadn't noticed that part

[Akinomaki 40,098]

Not both are joining the heya right now - 2 new members for Otowayama-beya from the sumo club of Nagano pref. Sarashina agricultural high school, but one as gyoji.

Both are 18y-old 3rd years and just had their final keiko at the club - they are the only 2 members and Yuuki Ishikawa 市川友輝 leaves for the heya to start his gyoji training: "We'll meet again!"

Aoi Yamagishi 山岸蒼生 joins as rikishi - maybe for Hatsu, maybe for Haru. He lost the first bout of the Kokuspo juniors individuals final tournament yesterday

Ishikawa, Yamagishi

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Edited October 8 by Akinomaki

[Jakusotsu 5,876]

Are you sure those aren't old pics of Takanohana and Kotomitsuki?

[Akinomaki 40,098]

The shindeshi kensa is on Nov. 1st http://www.sanspo.com/article/20241011-Z3KUB2IXQFLA7DMEMGOQ4PVBBA/

- day 1 of the basho with the announcement of those who passed is on the 10th - quite a long span this time

[Yubinhaad 11,603]

Bringing this over from the '25 Haru thread, because a press conference was held today at which it was announced Okada will join in Kyushu. Weight 160kg.

On 03/09/2024 at 23:51, Asashosakari said:

From what I can tell this news didn't go beyond a single-digit amount of Japanese Twitter comments and one sparsely populated Reddit thread so far, and I'm not even sure if this is the right basho thread to post it in, nor am I certain that this is actually going to result in a dohyo appearance in the end, but...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SumoMemes/comments/1f1xtb2/a_senior_university_student_mentored_by_paris/

Credit to the creator of that thread for much of the information. So apparently Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Aaron Wolf, OB of Tokai University's judo club (the club in Japan, from what I gather), went to Takadagawa-beya for one of those typical "star athlete from another sport tries sumo" visits back in April. A current member of the club, 4th year student Ryotaro Okada 岡田 綾太朗 went with him, in what - at the time - looked like him just tagging along for the experience. But a week ago, it turned out that Okada has seemingly made the decision to actually join Takadagawa when he graduates early next year.

This is of course highly unusual for a number of reasons. There's very little history of university graduates coming into ozumo without having done any sumo there at all (I don't believe Tokai even has a sumo club, not even intramural), and there's even less history of the current Takadagawa-oyakata (ex-Akinoshima) recruiting from university - in fact, the number of such deshi is zero across his 15-year tenure, and even the heya's share of high school grads is distinctly below average, so the focus has clearly been on finding recruits at age 15.

In any case, according to the Tokai judo club website, Okada stands 176 cm tall and based on the video evidence he may be 140+ kg already (he competed in the top, 100+ kg category in judo, unsurprisingly). Your guess is as good as mine as to whether we'll see him in maezumo in Kyushu, Hatsu or Haru, if he doesn't quit before it gets that far, but I've made the potentially stupid assumption that they won't be throwing him in early given his lack of a sumo background, so this comment has ended up here in the Haru thread for the time being.

BTW, the connection to Takadagawa-beya is that Akinoshima's son is also a recent Tokai judo club OB.

 

Pictures from the press conference:

  

Aaron Wolf was also present:

  

Handshake with Takadagawa-oyakata (former Sekiwake Akinoshima):

Edited October 16 by Yubinhaad

[Asashosakari 19,023]

I've put a note at the top of the original comment. I'm relatively surprised that we're seeing him this early because university graduates basically never show up in ozumo before January, but now that I'm thinking about it I suppose that's less because of anything related to their university education and more because the University and All-Japan sumo tournaments only take place in November/December, which isn't a hindrance for Okada.

Edited October 17 by Asashosakari

[Chiyozakura 130]

He looks very short and not like 176cm. Takadagawa is only 176cm himself (at best) and looks a lot taller then the kid.

[Akinomaki 40,098]

On 16/10/2024 at 18:09, Yubinhaad said:

Bringing this over from the '25 Haru thread, because a press conference was held today at which it was announced Okada will join in Kyushu

Quite an overwhelming news and pics coverage for this announcement. About 40 media people were at the campus of Tokai university (more pics:) https://www.u-tokai.ac.jp/news-campus/1087298/

Okada aims for makuuchi - hinting at the lack of sumo experience: "In judo being slow in applying techniques, I often lost by the shido penalties for that. I haven't shown results, but I think the clear decision of win and loss in sumo is suited for me."

First time someone from this club joins ozumo, joining sumo coming from a university club alone is very rare, with a proper career there is only ozeki Kaiketsu, who joined from the Nichidai judo club, but he did quit university in first year.

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[dingo 1,212]

Wow, that's a lot of photos about one event with the same people in slightly different poses. Hope he'll stay in sumo long enough to make it to makuuchi. At least he should have some throwing techniques which hopefully will make his sumo more interesting. 

Edited October 21 by dingo

[Akinomaki 40,098]

The planned new recruits for Kyushu has joined the new Hidenoyama-beya at the location in Yanagawa

On 03/06/2024 at 22:44, Akinomaki said:

The start of the heya is planned for late October, ready for the Kyushu basho, with his 4 uchi deshi and one planned new recruit for Kyushu.

On 26/10/2024 at 00:10, Akinomaki said:

Hidenoyama-beya started posting pics from the start of training today at the heya location in Yanagawa

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the members were at the city hall on the 23rd - without Kotomotomura, but with a new guy

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the new on the right, another 16 year old (only Kotokoguchi is 19): Taiyo(?) Ideno  出野太陽, who graduated from Kashiwa 2. middle school this year.

[Yubinhaad 11,603]

Two third-year students from Oita high schools are joining Ikazuchi-beya for this basho.

Sota Araki (荒木 颯太) studies at Yoshikan High School in Sakuragaoka, Oita, and it's there that he began doing sumo seriously. 187cm, 88kg.

Meanwhile, Shion Nagamatsu (永松 知恩) studies at Usa High School of Industry and Science in Usa, Oita. The shisho (former Komusubi Kakizoe) and Nagamatsu's mother were students at the same junior high school. He wants to reach Juryo in five years and surpass the shisho's career-high rank. 184cm, 104kg.

News video in this article
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/oita/20241028/5070019877.html

[Akinomaki 40,098]

After the Onami brothers, now the 3 Miyazaki brothers, but all in different heya. The 4th of 4 brothers from Tosashimizu, Kochi, Toranosuke Miyazaki 宮崎虎之介 (17, 171cm 123kg) joins the Takekuma-beya of Saitama-Sakae high sempai Goeido and aims to become like sempai Takakeisho. Together with another from Saitama-Sakae, with already the proper first name, Gota Kimura 木村豪太 (18, ?), the younger brother of Goseiryu - his first name taken from that of the oyakata: Gotaro. The eldest of the Miyazakis is Tosashimizu (27, Tokitsukaze), the 2nd Shimizuumi (23, Sakaigawa), who joined from Nichidai and won the jk and jd yusho in the last 2 basho.

Kimura, Miyazaki at the Fukuoka location of the heya in Nakagawa today

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Edited October 30 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,098]

9 have applied for the shindeshi-kensa, 2 nephews of yokozuna, apart from Daniel,

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also another nephew of Asashoryu, a son of the Blue Wolf, Serjbüdee (definitely not:)Rubusangonbo ルブサンゴンボ  (18), who dropped out of the family traditional high school Meitoku Gijuku in 2nd year to join Shikoroyama-beya, about a year ago. He was in Japan since middle school (Meitoku of course), where he started sumo in 3rd year - his older brother went into baseball instead, in first year high school he was at the interhigh and made it to the best 16 in the 100kg category. He trains on sandanme level by now.

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interhigh 2 years ago https://www.kochinews.co.jp/article/detail/581869

the brother

On 19/03/2021 at 14:00, Akinomaki said:

Asashoryu has another nephew in Japan, セルジブデ・サンダガバザル (3rd year high school, 175cm, 75kg), the son of his elder brother who was pro wrestler in Japan. The lad is onto baseball, what his father loves, and due to Asashoryu's connection he joined Meitoku gijuku middle school when he came to Japan as first year. The school has a top class baseball club and he was a baseball novice, Asashoryu told him: "It will be hard". After graduation he wants to go to a Japanese university and continue with baseball, studying engineering. His future dream is to become national baseball coach in Mongolia, where baseball is only a minor sports.

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Edited October 30 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,098]

21 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Gota Kimura 木村豪太 (18, ?), the younger brother of Goseiryu -

Kimura is 187cm, 140kg, he wants to become a rikishi who drives out the opponent in one go - denshamichi.

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Both name as goal sekitori - Kimura: first of all juryo, Miyazaki: sekitori as fast as possible o

Edited October 31 by Akinomaki

[Asashosakari 19,023]

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also another nephew of Asashoryu, a son of the Blue Wolf, Serjbüdee (definitely not:)Rubusangonbo ルブサンゴンボ  (18), who dropped out of the family traditional high school Meitoku Gijuku in 2nd year to join Shikoroyama-beya, about a year ago. He was in Japan since middle school (Meitoku of course), where he started sumo in 3rd year - his older brother went into baseball instead, in first year high school he was at the interhigh and made it to the best 16 in the 100kg category. He trains on sandanme level by now.

Luvsangombo is the reading I've seen.
 

2 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

9 have applied for the shindeshi-kensa

So we've got:

Taiyo(?) Ideno (Hidenoyama)
Sota Araki (Ikazuchi)
Shion Nagamatsu (Ikazuchi)
Daniel Ailua (Musashigawa)
Kenya(?) Tanaka (Onomatsu)
Luvsangombo Serjbüdee (Shikoroyama)
Ryotaro Okada (Takadagawa)
Gota Kimura (Takekuma)
Toranosuke Miyazaki (Takekuma)

Tanaka 田中健也 was briefly introduced on Onomatsu-beya's X account a few weeks ago, and confirmed as part of the Kyushu shindeshi kensa by Sponichi today. He is 17 years old and has no prior sumo experience, according to the paper.

 

Edited October 30 by Asashosakari

[sahaven111 174]

So, is he Hoshoryu's brother, or Hoshoryu's cousin?

[Yarimotsu 550]

3 hours ago, sahaven111 said:

So, is he Hoshoryu's brother, or Hoshoryu's cousin?

Cousin, according to the wikipedia text. Hoshoryu's dad is the only 1 of 4 brothers without a wikipedia article, which aligns with my memory.

[Akinomaki 40,098]

All 9 passed the initial check and wait 9 days till the announcement (of those who also passed the medicals=all) on shonichi

The 2 nephews, who have to wait for their entertainer visa and won't be in maezumo this basho

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Luvsangombo was 186cm, 116kg, he joined Shikoroyama-beya August last year, so both are in training for over a year now. Like his brother he was into baseball in Meitoku middle school - to please the baseball-loving father, but both the Blue Wolf and Asashoryu (and others) suggested sumo to him. He decided to join the sumo club instead when he proceeded to Meitoku high school "I can gambarize individually, can become stronger than anybody" - and wants to become sekitori as fast as possible. When he told uncle that he joins he got "A good heya, gambare!"

Daniel today was 181cm, 129kg - "Japanese is difficult, but I'm happy". He came to Japan in August last year and to the heya, is into oshi-zumo.

His dream is "yokozuna like the oyakata". In high school he was 120kg, lately he measured 134kg, 184cm (put something on the hair to flatten it today?)

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Edited November 1 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,098]

Measuring - mainly Luvsangombo

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Daniel

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Square judoka Okada: 170cm, 171kg

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Edited November 1 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,098]

On 28/10/2024 at 20:14, Yubinhaad said:

Two third-year students from Oita high schools are joining Ikazuchi-beya for this basho.

Sota Araki (荒木 颯太) studies at Yoshikan High School in Sakuragaoka, Oita, and it's there that he began doing sumo seriously. 187cm, 88kg.

Meanwhile, Shion Nagamatsu (永松 知恩) studies at Usa High School of Industry and Science in Usa, Oita. The shisho (former Komusubi Kakizoe) and Nagamatsu's mother were students at the same junior high school. He wants to reach Juryo in five years and surpass the shisho's career-high rank. 184cm, 104kg.

Nagamatsu and Araki

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The Asahoryu family

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Edited November 2 by Akinomaki

[Naganoyama 5,881]

NSK data:
SHIKONA	KANJI	NAME	HEYA	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	DOB	BIRTHPLACE
Airua	アイルア	Daniel Ailua	Musashigawa	181	129	07 - November - 2005	America
Araki	荒木	Araki Sota	Ikazuchi	186	90	28 - April - 2006	Oita
Ideno	出野	Ideno Taiyo	Hidenoyama	170	125	10 - April - 2008	Chiba
Kimura	木村	Kimura Gota	Takekuma	185	140	09 - April - 2006	Saitama
Miyazaki	宮崎	Miyazaki Toranosuke	Takekuma	169	121	21 - January - 2007	Kochi
Nagamatsu	永松	Nagamatsu Shion	Ikazuchi	183	104	09 - February - 2007	Yamanashi
Okada	岡田	Okada Ryotaro	Takadagawa	170	171	11 - May - 2002	Shimane
Serjbudee	セルジブデー	Luvsangombo Serjbudee	Shikoroyama	186	116	15 - September- 2006	Mongolia
Tanaka	田中	Tanaka Kenya	Ounomatsu	172	105	01 - February - 2007	Osaka

 

[Yubinhaad 11,603]

Tanaka will use the shikona Daiko (大光,  だいこう). No sumo experience and from Hirakata city in Osaka, same as stablemate Yuma.

 

Assuming no future extensions to the shindeshi age limit, it looks like Agora will be the last recruit who was born in the 1990s.