Tsuchinoninjin

Kehaya, Maruyama, Jinmaku, and Tsunenohana

If they wanted to get rid of him I guess they’d move him to Nishonoseki beya far from his beloved Tokyo

The akeni is not old, its just a trick of the light as the very shiny lacquer reflection looks like white-damage. Here's another picture of a newly made akeni https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2023/12/25/gazo/20231225s00005000554000p.html And some words with the maker as he made this specific kotozakura akeni (already delivered in early March per the article) https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202403080000587.html

The oobeya prophecy will come true

Takanohana 1994.09 O2w 15-0 Y Takanohana 1994.11 O1e 15-0 Y Takanohana 1995.09 Y1e 15-0 Y Takanohana 1996.09 Y1e 15-0 Y Asashoryu 2004.01 Y1e 15-0 Y Asashoryu 2004.03 Y1e 15-0 Y Asashoryu 2005.01 Y1e 15-0 Y Asashoryu 2005.05 Y1e 15-0 Y Asashoryu 2006.11 Y1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2007.05 O1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2008.07 Y1w 15-0 Y Hakuho 2009.03 Y1w 15-0 Y Hakuho 2009.11 Y1w 15-0 Y Hakuho 2010.03 Y1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2010.05 Y1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2010.07 Y1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2010.09 Y1e 15-0 Y Harumafuji 2012.07 O2w 15-0 Y Harumafuji 2012.09 O1e 15-0 Y Harumafuji 2013.01 Y1w 15-0 Y Hakuho 2013.03 Y1w 15-0 Y Hakuho 2013.05 Y1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2015.01 Y1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2016.05 Y1e 15-0 Y Goeido 2016.09 O2e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2017.05 Y2w 15-0 Y Hakuho 2018.09 Y1w 15-0 Y Hakuho 2019.03 Y1e 15-0 Y Hakuho 2021.07 Y1e 15-0 Y Terunofuji 2021.11 Y1e 15-0 Y Tell me again how many Ozekiwakes are on this list?

Why is the Makuuchi promotion queue empty on Day 11?? You guys don’t even know how to yaocho properly

Onosato went wild on Takakeisho, the difference in size was really apparent.

If I was Asaskayama-oyakata I'd hold out as long as possible to maximize hardship compensation to house the extra rikishi.

Kintamayama doesn't jinx anyone, he just tells it like it is and we don't listen

I think Shibatayama believes it, he seems to be a hakuho supporter. Whether he can convince the raging masses to agree with his statement, probably not.

I wonder too how much his presence at the remote control incident has been adding to that decision. Maybe not enough distance for the decision-makers.

I don't think I've ever even seen $50 wine at the store before, so probably you shouldn't open a store in Michigan.

From the pics it looked like Tamagaki got ambushed in a random parking lot by a group of reporters, so probably talking off the cuff in the moment in any case. It looks dire for Hakuho, I think the pendulum will swing back, but will it be in time? A couple of guys in Japan who are the only people I know in real life that follow sumo closely were both life long Hakuho haters, have been upset about NSK treatment of Hakuho. It really makes me wonder if things are happening in the background of relevant koenkai. Well, I'm sure there were the same voices for Takanohana as well...

If you're being charitable you could say most of those rules are to protect rikishi from the media storm but it does seem like he is saying that if the heya is gone then all the rikishi are gone too with no chance of transferring elsewhere. Imagine getting bullied by Hokuseiho and then you get punished for it, not a great look there.

I see, they didn’t get that far yet. I couldn’t find much about it in my searches so it makes sense I was conflating two things in my mind.

It’s a minor detail, but Hakuho owns the Miyagino building outright, yeah? Is Tamagaki really going to search for a new place just to retire in 5 ish years?

Y’all stop writing the script for the fourth installation of the Godfather movie and just wait and see if more info comes out. Kensho money gets withheld to pay taxes. Nobody has blood debt to the yakuza. A marketing company that works with Samsung and Walt Disney isn’t the zainichi toa-kai

What should we send you as an apology?

I had a vinegar grandpa too, but you know there's France, Italy, Spain, Portugal all there. Could spend a lifetime just getting through all those.

I would surely bet its just a 'private label' wine, a wine that is non-exclusively sold under other labels as well. He is probably not allowed to sell it outside of Japan to be honest, not that a $40 Georgian wine would do well in the middle of Europe anyway. Something like this would probably be really close http://grw.ge/details.php?id=13 But the point of private label is you're not gonna find out which one it actually is.

If you truly believe this then show up to the Nagoya basho with a winter coat on

Honestly I’m game for this even if we don’t tie.

Ishiura but maybe he’s gone so it doesn’t count. Hakuho never got over getting rejected from heya for being too short did he

Kitanofuji 北の冨士 -> 北の富士 I thought that 冨→富 was a weird one but there seems to be a somewhat standard if not well known saying for this. If you have some wealth (冨 wealth) it will compound over time and finally bloom into a great estate (家　house) so they take the top of 家 and put it there 富 So going from 冨 to 富 means a maturation of something great, even if it is just the addition of the smallest mark. It makes me feel like current oyakata are lacking in their kanji lore :D

As an addendum to the above post I have never manually tabulated my score correctly so please take my judgement of other banzukes with a grain of salt