Hakuho/Miyagino promotes Hakuho-rice

[Yubinhaad 11,977]

Hakuho is in Mongolia to plant there Hakuho rice, fulfilling his long time his dream, starting 3 years ago with creating a variety of rice in Hokkaido that can grow in Mongolia.

He also plans to gives advice to a youngster's baseball team there.

Some pictures from the trip.

Planting the rice.

With the baseball team.

Instructing some rikishi of the future? Shiko, suriashi and butsukari.

Hakuho also attended a Mongolian wrestling training session.

Rainbow.

Edited April 20, 2014 by Yubinhaad

[Benevolance 2,534]

OMG! OMG! DOUBLE RAINBOW!

[Masumasumasu 902]

[torquato 1,075]

Question concerning the golf video. I thought sumotori have to wear traditional clothing. How ist it possible that Hakuho is dressed like that?

[Akinomaki 41,851]

At the Takushoku univ. Hokkaido campus they also want to produce Hakuho vegetables (potatoes, carrots etc.). Then they want to have together with the Hakuho rice a curry contest and make the superior entry into a marketable product.

[Akinomaki 41,851]

Hakuho planting rice, for the first time with a machine, planning to bring Hakuho rice to the world. The supporting Takikawa JA head: "The yokozuna is a cosmopolitan, so we want to expand overseas." The first step is to bring it to the Jakarta jungyo. Enough rice and equipment to make 4000 o-nigiri and distribute them for free.
Hakuho wants to give a planting machine also to Mongolia: "In Mongolia I got muscle ache from planting."





Hakuho as guest trainer at the Hokkaido Takushoku univ. girls basketball club on the 14th.

[Yubinhaad 11,977]

And a few more from Takikawa.

As well as rice, pumpkins will also be grown.

Edited April 20, 2014 by Yubinhaad

[Akinomaki 41,851]

At the Takushoku univ. Hokkaido campus they also want to produce Hakuho vegetables (potatoes, carrots etc.). Then they want to have together with the Hakuho rice a curry contest and make the superior entry into a marketable product.

Hakuho tasting a curry with Hakuho rice: “A taste you don't grow tired of”.

Other rice I guess:

Hakuho with tsukebito Ishiura at an event in the Fukushima area, pounding mochi.

[Akinomaki 41,851]

On the 14th Hakuho presented 120 kg of Hakuho rice to the sumo trainees, the new recruits from last basho.

It's the time again to donate Hakuho rice (100kg this time) to the sumo school

http://www.nikkansports.com/sports/sumo/news/f-sp-tp3-20140417-1286800.html

Sankei

With the head of the institute Tomozuna-oyakata

Mainichi

Edited April 17, 2014 by Akinomaki

[Yubinhaad 11,977]

A few more pictures from the rice-giving at the sumo school.

Hakuho with Tomozuna-oyakata (former Sekiwake Kaiki), the new head of the sumo school.

Giving rice to Abiko.

Commemorative picture with everyone.

Hakuho's Miyagino-beya stablemates Ishiura and Daikiho also attended.

Hakuho chats with reporters.

Ishiura is standing amongst the reporters, holding a video camera.

Daikiho with fellow ex-collegiate rikishi Abiko, Shiba and Kawabata.

Finally, with the rice-giving over, students Ichinojo and Kawabata return the tables and chairs to their proper places.

Edited April 20, 2014 by Yubinhaad

[Akinomaki 41,851]

planting Hakuho rice again as if nothing had happened

TBS
Hochi

http://www.nikkansports.com/sports/sumo/news/f-sp-tp3-20140531-1310100.html

Yomiuri

Edited October 24, 2015 by Akinomaki

[Yubinhaad 11,977]

A few more pictures from Hakuho's latest visit to Takikawa, Hokkaido.

[Manekineko 200]

Mud tegata. :-D

[Akinomaki 41,851]

It's the time of the year again for Hakuho to plant that Hakuho-rice - but it's getting tiresome: "My body is heavy and I sank (into the rice field)"
Now producing also sake with that rice is planned.
http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1492958.html
Another of his dreams still is to bring rice cultivation to Mongolia: global warming may lead to that possibility in 20, 30 years, and in 100 or 200 years, when the Mongolians are used to eat their own rice, they may remember that it was Hakuho who brought it there.
http://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/sumo/2015/06/16/0008126920.shtml?pg=2

PR with miniature rice bales

Edited June 16, 2015 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,851]

On the 23rd, a new brand of sake made of Hakuho rice was presented in Sapporo: Hinoshita-kaizan, for the event of 5 years since Hakuho rice was created. Hakuho gave it that name: Hinoshita-kaizan is a title in sumo for a strong veteran rikishi of unequaled quality, not limited to a yokozuna.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hokkaido/news/20151024-OYTNT50012.html

[Akinomaki 41,851]

Time for Hakuho to plant rice again, like every year since 2011 - for the 10th anniversary he wants to have a jungyo in Takikawa.

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70 signed 5kg boxes of his rice later all sold quickly for 4000Yen each.

[PawnSums 59]

On ‎6‎/‎11‎/‎2013 at 16:09, torquato said:

How ist it possible that Hakuho is dressed like that?

it's possible because they fit him, and he put them on.

[Churaumi 753]

Dumb question maybe, but is it officially Hakuho branded rice, or is it just a coincidence and he's doing PR for a company that has the same name? 

They sell a brand of rice at my local Asian megamarket called "Kagayaki," no relation. 

[Akinomaki 41,851]

In this thread you will find that Hakuho-rice is planted by Hakuho himself, he donates it to new recruits etc. and even sells it himself. He's not doing PR for a brand - his brand is PR for the city where it grows:

On 17.2.2013 at 15:12, Akinomaki said:

It's maybe even slightly different by now from the original rice variety in Hokkaido they took to "create" this Hakuho rice - his dream is to develop a rice to be grown in Mongolia:

On 19.6.2011 at 01:52, Asashosakari said:

- taking part in a rice planting ceremony in Takikawa-shi on Hokkaido on June 11 with local school children and...

...with his wife and eldest daughter (his son was also around, says Sports Hochi):

(The headband reads "Hakuho Rice". Apparently I didn't post about it last summer - Hakuho has been organizing some sort of cooperative effort with agricultural institutes in Takikawa with the goal of finding rice varieties that can grow well in the Mongolian climate and ultimately introducing them there.)

still the same on the headband, and now also on the t-shirt

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Edited June 12, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Churaumi 753]

Neat. Don't see many pro athletes doing stuff like this in the States. 

[Akinomaki 41,851]

Local NHK Hokkaido had a video - someone filmed it off TV

still on the NHK site, downloadhelper gets it: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/sapporo-news/20170610/3849391.html

else it's here for VLC and youtube-dl : rtmp://flv.nhk.or.jp/ondemand/flv/lnews/sapporo/7003849391_20170610185612.mp4

Edited June 13, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Kaminariyuki 519]

Rice paddy shiko, love it! And, I'd figured Hakuho for a tater guy...

Five year thread on Hakuho rice, too. I'm guessing he probably has the hang of it by now. Very hard work to do that all day, although clearly this is mostly for the photos and publicity.

[Akinomaki 41,851]

Time to plant Hakuho rice again: Hakuho was in Takigawa for the yearly event  - the rice it is based on is "yumepirika", which got the top "special A" rank for the 3rd year.

Local news pages with videos:

http://news.hbc.co.jp/c6b5bcd8bfe0b18c764297cde3341b38.html

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/sapporo-news/20180607/0000595.html

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Edited June 8, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Philioyamfugi 378]

If we had Hakahou rice at my Asian store....I'd buy some :)

[Akinomaki 41,851]

Not much was heard of Hakuho rice this year. Hakuho meanwhile on the 26th has helped with kids at another rice field, in Komatsu, Ishikawa - to harvest rice for the top member of the "gods of sake brewing" Nototouji 能登杜氏, Mr Noguchi 農口尚彦.

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