Akinomaki

Day 20 Kanazawa, Ishikawa - Onosato basho, with about 4600 spectators oo o torikumi - Takayasu and Kirishima are back o Takayasu also back to tachimochi - carrying the earth on the new set ooo o o o o oo o o o o o training with pref. local Oshoumi o o o o o Onosato also with Hoshoryu oo oooo of course a win over Hoshoryu in the last bout o o o o o presentation of the new set the day before ooo o also in the local news on the jungyo day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89GrKvK9U0 Oshoumi vs. Kotoshoho o Also local Kagayaki vs. Kotoeiho o both locals on kids duty o plenty of videos - a digest

Day 19 Nagaoka, still Niigata - nothing in the media, even the local Niigata Nippo just mentions that it also happens torikumi - Wakatakakage still on schedule, so it was nothing serious o Kaiyo high shusshin semi locals Oshoumi and Shirokuma in the talk corner o

I was at morning keiko only once, Doreen took me there, otherwise I didn't like to rise up that early. Nowadays going there later is possible as well. The best entry ticket is a membership in the koenkai, but that costs a bit as well of course. It doesn't have to be an international one, if you have a way to pay the member fee - and some address in Japan to have the banzuke sent to. Else being taken there by a koenkai member. At the time you want to be there, preparations for Kyushu will be under way and many heya away on training camps - and the (uninjured) stars with tsukebito and locals at the Aki jungyo (no schedule out yet). Likely that will be not near Tokyo though.

While Onosato fires up the sumo boom today in the home jungyo in Kanazawa, the sumo dojo of Seinan middle school in Kanazawa is about to close down - Endo, Kagayaki and Enho trained there. Not enough kids come from primary school, sumo is dying down in Japan - the end at the zenchu is no surprise

Preparations for the Onosato triumph jungyo in the capital of his home prefecture tomorrow - article by the promoter Hokkoku shimbun, with 3 videos of dohyo making http://www.hokkoku.co.jp/articles/-/1846400 Onosato in preparation got a new kesho mawashi set, the presentation today was on a trailer of the company his father works for, at the company in Kanazawa, by the company president o o o

No information yet about the set, Onosato was using so far at the jungyo - only the tachimochi piece is always in proper view, but the other 2 look similar, with the donor name Muta written in the kanji form yume/mu tatsu 夢達 on the one for the yokozuna - he brought it from Nagoya, where the headquarters of the parent company of Muta-Japan are located, and the company boasts with the concept "luxury and unique" https://muta-japan.com/pages/company - just the thing for the unique and never again yokozuna o

Doesn't look that expensive, a rather simple fabric, but a special design. The sun for the yokozuna who shall cast light (on the dark sumo world). Usually a set has no shikona on it, this one implies it as another motto for Onosato, 我即宇宙 宇宙即我 I exist in the universe and the universe exists in me - searching for it gives it as the reverse of a phrase by reiki founder Usui (no links, may lead to religious context). The earth, not the moon is for the tachi-mochi, a close-up on Ishikawa and Niigata pref., with a design to have his hometown Tsubata and his school town Itoigawa glitter. With soul written on it, tamashii 魂. The moon has some quietness 静寂. o oo o o o o The presentation was on a trailer of the company, at the company, by the company president

Day 18 Niigata, about 3500 spectators torikumi o Onosato went to school in the pref. and is semi-local - accordingly he won his yokozuna bout o yokozuna keiko o dohyo-iri with the daughter of a classmate from Itoigawa middle school o o o report from Yurihonjo - Hoshoryu won the yokozuna bout

Ajigawa-beya has a training camp in Ichinoseki, Iwate, till Sep. 3rd - nice display at the location, where they stay, the Matsukawa citizen center o Dewanoumi-beya first had their Sasagawa training camp in Kimitsu, Chiba o o o and from the 22nd till the 24th one at the hometown of their heya's 3 brothers from Fukushima, the Kiyo(ta)-brothers from Koriyama o o Reports from the Soma training camp of Tamanoi-beya - with sumo entertainer Akatsu and with kids o Report from the Oshiogawa-beya training camp in Ogata village

I forgot that if NHK airs something, no stream is available anytime - though only the team final had a broadcast, shown on NHK-E on the 22nd, with Takakeisho (Minatogawa) as commentator https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/ZV2ZY9WK2G/episode/te/W5LJ4X8GM1/

Ibaraki PR ambassador Nishonoseki was appointed 1st PR ambassador for the "satsuma-imo department" of Namegata city, which is 3rd biggest producer of the sweet potato in Japan local news clips o

Doesn't look good for Wakatakakage - after the triumphant return yesterday, he injured his ankle today, somewhere else than asageiko, and had to quit - not at the dohyo-iri and not in the bout against Kotozakura the triumphant Day 17, Fukushima, with about 2500 spectators o torikumi - first the brothers, Wakatakakage was also mage making model o o training bout with the son o o and dohyo-iri oo the brothers also did sumo with other kids o Hakuoho now 22 o o o Asakoryu is back o emoji error for the report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJTyldjELK8

The regular Isegahama-beya encouragement rally in Goshogawara by the local koenkai this time was a day before the jungyo in Aomori city, where the heya's 3 Aomori sekitori didn't take part - and Goshogawara local heya top Takerufuji wasn't at the rally. Takarafuji declared that he won't quit and wants to get back to makuuchi. I can't get used to it: heya top advisor Miyagino-oyakata spoke about the heya to the about 350 koenkai members and got flowers o Isegahama-oyakata apparently wasn't there - another pic with the sekitori: o

Day 16 Yurihonjo, Akita, about 4500 spectators torikumi o semi local Oho - his grandmother is from Akita and they adopted him - with an older kid while the 2 Abis are watching o winning his bout o Y/O oo Akita pref. local Shohoryu (Tokitsukaze) did the yumitori after Hoshoryu had his bout o preparations for Kanazawa - Kimura Sakuranosuke writes the ita-banzuke o local Onaruto (Dejima) does PR at the promoters offices - Hokuriku shimbun o and on local TV - news clip: o o report from Yamanobe longer feature on Ichi in Hokkaido - bilingual and subtitles

Day 2 of the health checks, more injured ones and lower ranked without jungyo duty - the NSK posted a set for both days o o o Asanoyama ooo Kiryuko o Tomokaze o o Akua o Suyama o Hatooka o o after the quite irregular unfazed (even happy) pics this time, at last an appropriate painful face, by Kaishin - I can attest that from the back of the hand it really is torture oo o o o Nabatame does it before the needle is even close o o but nothing while the blood is flowing o