Akinomaki

After the 6 months trainee period, Tamanoi's new Mongolian Otgonbat joins for Aki, with dohyo debut in Kyushu, after he has the performer visa Oggie (nickname オギー ) came to Japan May 2019, invited by Meitoku gijuku high sumo club coach Yamada, encouraged by Takasago/Asasekiryu. He started with sumo as 1st year at Meitoku, before that he did Mongolian sumo and basketball. As Toyodai 3rd year, after Towada he won the national select university/corporate sumo Kariya tournament and later left university - he had waited for the chance to join ozumo. In January he knocked at the door of Tamanoi-beya, the oyakata had watched him at tournaments. o With 197cm (21, ,175kg) taller than the heya's active top height Yoshiazuma (195cm - doesn't look that way in the pic, but that's perspective - and the hair cut down to 5mm) o - top in makuuchi is Onosato (192cm), tallest since the NSK started proper measuring for Aki 1953 are Akebono, Kotooshu and Hokuseiho with 204cm, before that, since the start of Showa 100 years ago, Fudoiwa is the tallest with 212cm.

Yomiuri sponsors high school sumo, Mainichi university sumo. The east and west Japan weight class tournaments were earlier this month, on the 31st the national weight class championships will be streamed live

Kawaigari for Oshoumi and Shirokuma (emoji error) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pk9xT51xmU Before the Shizuoka basho on the 27th, the obligatory yakuza eviction pledge performance took place at the local police - the game "Spot the ex-rikishi" is difficult here Nakagawa was there for the NSK

Now 2nd year Soshin Sugama lost in the sf to Hashimoto. TBS news feature on the best Japanese in the tournament, Sugama, now in his last year 173cm, 133kg, was aiming for middle school yokozuna, but lost to Chilgun in the sf. http://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2130487?display=1

Nice pic of Mienoumi on yokozuna run, interviewed before Nagoya 1979 o - I thought this might be something for What was today in sumo, but actually the article is about the grandson after his model debut having his actor debut next. In the film Junai https://www.junai-movie.com/, based on a manga, to be released next year

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/