Seiyashi

He's already started losing some weight, it seems.

The latter.

You mean Haruo Kirishima.

I would say Mitakeumi simply because if Miyabiyama is any precedent, Mitakeumi's not going to get easily repromoted to ōzeki without an outstanding performance.

I don't think it's about career ranks but how many basho in makuuchi, plus some of them might have been grandfathered in or opened their heya before criteria were tightened.

Not Sadanoumi?

That would have been me among others, but tabloids might have started it first.

It has to, and given what was discussed in the thread apropos of Kakuryū, means Hakuhō probably had a hand in buying him out.

The intai isn't surprising. The shūmei is. I wonder how this fits into his plan to succeed his father. Did that fall through, or is Ishiura simply the first of a line of Hakuhō deshi that will occupy Magaki when need be?

I know what you meant but this caused me to do a double take.

Interesting that Kakuryū is in a suit instead of mon-tsuki kimono. Did he not get the memo?

Better still, I hope Hidenoumi is demoted instead of Enhō, forlorn hope though that may be.

So I guess we need a new one now?

Will he go low and slow like Harumafuji? Harumafuji's dohyō-iri was beautiful. But given it's Miyagino, they're probably going to do Hakuhō's variant of Shiranui, which tbh I'm not a big fan of.

Probably also a good time to mention Herouth's observation: Kirishima II is the 6th Mongolian to be promoted to ōzeki. The other 5 were all subsequently promoted to yokozuna. No Mongolian has ever capped out at ōzeki (but at least two have capped out at sekiwake that I can remember offhand, though).