Another Sekitori Marriage

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

7 hours ago, Yamanashi said:

So, traded in the 44-year-old model for a 22-year-old?  Wild.

And the wife traded in the Oyakata for an also-ran rikishi. 

[Yamanashi 3,238]

13 hours ago, Kaninoyama said:

And the wife traded in the Oyakata for an also-ran rikishi. 

Let me be crystal clear: I was referring to the okamisan.  Tagonoura was born in 1976, the rikishi in 1998.

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

47 minutes ago, Yamanashi said:

Let me be crystal clear: I was referring to the okamisan.  Tagonoura was born in 1976, the rikishi in 1998.

Got it. For some reason I thought you were referring to the Oyakata. 

[Akinomaki 36,933]

6 hours ago, Kaninoyama said:

Got it. For some reason I thought you were referring to the Oyakata. 

Because the (ex-)okamisan looks like a (super-)model? (Kise new yokozuna, 3 years ago)

Edited April 12, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

1 hour ago, Akinomaki said:

Because the (ex-)okamisan looks like a (super-)model? (Kise new yokozuna, 3 years ago)

Not at all unattractive to my eyes (Okamisan, not Oyakata).

On another note, has it really already been three years since Kisenosato was promoted to Yokozuna? 

 

[Ender Wiggin 43]

So okamisan ran off last September, just when Takayasu sat out with an injury and started his MK streak. Aside from his nagging injury, I wonder if that played any part in his downward spiral.

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

57 minutes ago, Ender Wiggin said:

So okamisan ran off last September, just when Takayasu sat out with an injury and started his MK streak. Aside from his nagging injury, I wonder if that played any part in his downward spiral.

Indeed, it sounds like things are far from stable at the Tagonoura stable. 

Edited April 12, 2020 by Kaninoyama

[Yamanashi 3,238]

7 hours ago, Kaninoyama said:

Indeed, it sounds like things are far from stable at the Tagonoura stable. 

Maybe Netflix Japan can do a sleazy "docudrama" about the heya.  It might kick this insufferable Tiger crap off the Internet in the US.

[WAKATAKE 2,411]

10 hours ago, Kaninoyama said:

Indeed, it sounds like things are far from stable at the Tagonoura stable. 

Which may be all the more why we may be seeing Araiso stable here as soon as he meets the requirements.

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

10 hours ago, Yamanashi said:

Maybe Netflix Japan can do a sleazy "docudrama" about the heya.  It might kick this insufferable Tiger crap off the Internet in the US.

Should we call it "Cougar King"?

[hakutorizakura 504]

23 hours ago, Kaninoyama said:

Indeed, it sounds like things are far from stable at the Tagonoura stable. 

It's good to note that such nontechnical factors may affect rikishi performance, beside the usual things like injury... It might be interesting to see an analysis on how a rikishi performs after a major event (marriage/engagement, stable instability etc.) in a form of a simple graph like number of wins per basho 1yr before and after, if someone has the time to do it of course.

 

13 hours ago, WAKATAKE said:

Which may be all the more why we may be seeing Araiso stable here as soon as he meets the requirements.

Does he still hang around in Tagonoura or what? Or mostly busy trying to get the "requirements"?

 

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

26 minutes ago, hakutorizakura said:

Does he still hang around in Tagonoura or what? Or mostly busy trying to get the "requirements"?

He still regularly dons the mawashi and spars with Takayasu--usually still getting the better of the former Ozeki despite being retired. 

[Akinomaki 36,933]

In this February video of a food donation to Tagonoura-beya, it's all Araiso acting for the heya. The donation is meant for him, Takayasu and then all rikishi of the heya. http://ibarakinews.jp/news/newsdetail.php?f_jun=15813360090059

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE_s8GH8G1E

Edited April 13, 2020 by Akinomaki

[RabidJohn 1,373]

Takayasu had been on the decline since way before last September, so I'm not sure okami-san buggering off with a younger rikishi had anything to do with it. Unless, of course, he was getting some 'special treatment' from her before she switched to the young guy!

[WAKATAKE 2,411]

I think the real rift would be if Takayasu follows Araiso to the new stable.

[Kaminariyuki 493]

The Japanese seem so staid and conformist as a rule, but my experience has been that they're as wild as the next culture given half a chance.

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

5 hours ago, Kaminariyuki said:

The Japanese seem so staid and conformist as a rule, but my experience has been that they're as wild as the next culture given half a chance.

Indeed, a walk into any izakaya after work hours will confirm this is to be true. 

[Akinomaki 36,933]

Not a sekitori anymore, but Ryuo is the manager of Hakuho, and Hakuho managed to get him marry the daughter of his aunt, Hakuho's cousin. Kakuryu and Harumafuji were also at the wedding, and Miyagino-oyakata. The video focuses on the making of the special horse head fiddle, Ryuo and his wife got as a wedding present - with a dragon head as well, for the Ryu-. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19g4y187Rq

[Yamanashi 3,238]

7 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Not a sekitori anymore, but Ryuo is the manager of Hakuho, and Hakuho managed to get him marry the daughter of his aunt, Hakuho's cousin. Kakuryu and Harumafuji were also at the wedding, and Miyagino-oyakata. The video focuses on the making of the special horse head fiddle, Ryuo and his wife got as a wedding present - with a dragon head as well, for the Ryu-. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19g4y187Rq

Loved the background tunes: Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" , and "Colonel Bogey March".  The horsehead/dragon headstock was so ornate!  And yet the body was just a carefully proportioned box; that's what makes or breaks the tonal quality.

[ryafuji 792]

20 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Not a sekitori anymore, but Ryuo is the manager of Hakuho, and Hakuho managed to get him marry the daughter of his aunt, Hakuho's cousin. Kakuryu and Harumafuji were also at the wedding, and Miyagino-oyakata. The video focuses on the making of the special horse head fiddle, Ryuo and his wife got as a wedding present - with a dragon head as well, for the Ryu-. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19g4y187Rq

His second marriage? There’s a wife and son mentioned by you back at the time of his retirement ceremony in 2013.

 

Edited April 26, 2020 by ryafuji

[Akinomaki 36,933]

2 hours ago, ryafuji said:

His second marriage? There’s a wife and son mentioned by you back at the time of his retirement ceremony in 2013.

looks like it  - rather not the case of "at last a wedding reception"

Edited April 26, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 36,933]

On 28/10/2019 at 18:18, Akinomaki said:

The engagement  of Takayasu (29) and enka singer Konomi Mori (30 - same year in school) 杜このみ was made public today.

No change, just like with Ikioi: when she is in the news, the engagement is mentioned, but no wedding date for the near future. Both Takayasu and Konomi Mori are 30 at the moment, she has a new song released 杜このみ 郷愁おけさ, practices the songs of sempai okami-san Takada Mitsue (Nishonoseki), trains for homemaking, learns with a cooking book to prepare dinner for Takayasu. Less work due to Corona and "more days where we can meet", "we are proceeding with preparations to live together". http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/20200617/geo20061704000002-n1.html

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On 10/10/2019 at 22:47, Akinomaki said:

It has become known that Endo had married in May and with that  has started to live outside the heya. His wife is an ordinary, thus so far anonymous member of the public. He didn't tell the so called related local people, and also the date for the wedding reception is not yet fixed.

On 11/10/2019 at 14:25, Akinomaki said:

His local paper already has some more - by interviewing his father and the koenkai top who knew already. Endo in May told it to the head of his local koenkai, the Anamizu town mayor, and asked him to keep it a secret for a while.

She works in medical care, a friend had introduced them.

With this Endo apparently has lost his bigger koenkai, Fuji no kai, around the Nichidai rijicho Tanaka and wife. The tabloid Weekly Flash reported during the Haru basho that this personal koenkai with branches in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya and at its peak up to 1000 members now is virtually dissolved - they had no meeting since the marriage. The Tanakas had introduced him to another woman, with the intention to have that be his fiancee. http://smart-flash.jp/sports/105230

Looks like a repeat of Akebono's story, the loss of his koenkai after marriage http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/5865-featured-heya-azumazeki-asahiyama/?tab=comments#comment-55139

- at least Endo owns a kabu already

Edited June 20, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Kaninoyama 1,430]

Shiko Master Abi has gotten married.

The bride is a woman in her 20s. They had been dating for three years prior to the marriage.

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Kaninoyama

[Kintamayama 42,324]

Kaisei got married on June 20th to a Japanese lady in her late twenties, born in the USA. "We decided we wanted to see each other more these virus times, so we thought getting married and living together might be a good idea.." he said during a phone interview.*

In the meantime, the whole article disappeared..

 

Edited July 15, 2020 by Kintamayama

[RabidJohn 1,373]

1 hour ago, Kintamayama said:

 "We decided we wanted to see each other more these virus times, so we thought getting married and living together might be a good idea.." he said during a phone interview.

In other words, getting married in order to have sex, which seems such a quaint and old-fashioned notion these days.

What an unexpected outcome of the pandemic!

Edited July 15, 2020 by RabidJohn