Yamanashi

Of course the real test will come when he starts working against real sekitori.

That's what it looks like to me.

Well, why not, " It's The Hakuho Sho."

Thanks for joining the group! Thankfully, you don't have to put on lots of weight to watch sumo. Most of us are just fans, and only a few of us live in Japan. But we love this sport.

Reincarnation as a tsukebito: a little more Hindu than Buddhist, but I like the irony.

The New Takanofuji Scandal begins to resemble a shotgun marriage of the Old Takanofuji Scandal and the Takanohana Scandal.

Thanks for your question. It is a delicate matter. I have tried to enter the same heya as Kintamayama, so that I won't have to verbally joust with him during a basho. Most of the tsukebito are a little "snarky" (have I translated 皮肉な correctly?). I'm currently using the heya's Sutenogurafa-yobidashi.

For those of you residing in Tokyo: please go do a quick "health and safety" check on John G.

To me, what seems very "Japanese" is the idea that there is a necessary one-to-one relationship between athletic success and character (gravitas? hinkaku?). In American football (similar because of the physicality involved) there are several current scandals over players who are elite athletes but deplorable people on the field (dirty players) or off the field (wife-beaters, etc.). No one would ever make them mentors of other players; but a rikishi who has made it to a certain rank is automatically assigned underlings to cater to him.

Hakuho clip: he's already got that attitude: knock me over with a matta, huh? Well, have a henka!

He is the French PM I most remember.

Is the difference that to "retire voluntarily" means he keeps all of his deferred salary and other bonuses?

"(And not the bad points)"

Where would you want Kakuryu to go? What heya would offer the best match? My evil twin thinks Kak should transfer to Miyagino, just so we could watch the brains explode ...

What made me think this worthy of trivia (vs. Greatest Feats of Sumo!!) is the timeliness of the Murata connection. Incidentally, Jokoryu lost to a (non-sekitori HR) 39 basho after his Hatsu Dohyu.