New kesho mawashi

[Wakaebala 151]

57 minutes ago, Amamaniac said:

 

It’s fortunate that they went with the Hokuto-no-ken theme.  Just imagine, a Yokozuna’s kesho-mawashi set featuring Hello Kitty!  Do Yokozunas have a say in the designs? (A similar question has been asked before, but I did not see an answer.)  More importantly, do the designs have to be approved by the JSA before they are made?  If not, I’m assuming the JSA would have the power to ban the use of an inappropriate kesho-mawashi or one unbecoming of a Yokozuna.

 

Good question! I'm also interested about the answer.

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Tobizaru got the traditional kesho-mawashi from Saitama Sakae high.

with the headmaster and sumo club head coach Yamada

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In return there is the customary rule of donating 500kg of rice to the sumo club. At the moment there are 8 sekitori of Saitama Sakae origin, Goeido at the top. During the 3 years in school, a sumo club member eats about 750kg of rice, and in one month all members at the moment devour about 450kg - so the 500kg aren't that much.

The bento for the 21 members of the sumo club, prepared by Yamada.

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Edited June 23, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Benihana 1,937]

1 hour ago, Akinomaki said:

In return there is the customary rule of donating 500kg of rice to the sumo club. At the moment there are 8 sekitori of Saitama Sakae origin, Goeido at the top. During the 3 years in school, a sumo club member eats about 750kg of rice, and in one month all members at the moment devour about 450kg - so the 500kg aren't that much.

Rice Rice Baby

About 1kg per student and weekday, not bad.

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Rikishin got a new kesho-mawashi from his local "Cheer for Rikishin Club". It was formed in March for the first sekitori from Taragi-town and has 376 members, about 100 were there for the presentation. It shows the coat of arms of the town (designed from the kanji タ) , with his shikona on the left and the name of the town 多良木 on the right.

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASK6S4WM6K6STLVB00B.html

with his parents and the head of the koenkai

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[Akinomaki 40,814]

On 3.7.2016 at 17:53, Akinomaki said:

Another one from the Clay Decoration Society for Yoshikaze. http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1672822.html

On 5.7.2015 at 18:37, Akinomaki said:

Veteran Yoshikaze again got a new and extravagant, a 3-dimensional one.
The material used for this is resin clay with oil paint knead into, by way of the clay decoration technique.
http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1502473.html
Presented by a representative of the Clay Decoration society, a friend of his wife

And this year again - after each new one from the Clay Decoration Society, so far Yoshikaze got a sansho. A much lighter than the other 2 and without the shikona. The 3 together are meant to represent shin-gi-tai, and the last one is for gi/waza - technique, title: 3 arrows crane (looks more like a duck to me though). The society representative explains the 3 arrows at the center of the crane as the symbol for a sharp attack: "The tachiai is 50% of the win in sumo. The tachiai is the first arrow, then to shoot a 2nd arrow and a third, this is the image for the design." http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/sumo/20170702-OHT1T50126.html

[Akinomaki 40,814]

16 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

And this year again - after each new one from the Clay Decoration Society, so far Yoshikaze got a sansho. A much lighter than the other 2 and without the shikona. The 3 together are meant to represent shin-gi-tai, and the last one is for gi/waza - technique

The first was the red Mt. Fuji (has to be tai - body), the 2nd a dragonfly (the never retreating worm of victory: shin - spirit). And before he got the first, Yoshikaze had 6 make-koshi in a row in Nagoya. http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/sumo/20170702-OHT1T50256.html

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[Akinomaki 40,814]

Tobizaru got a new kesho mawashi - and a monkey - from the Yasuragi-en (garden of serenity) care center for the elderly in Asahi-city, Chiba, as one of 5 rikishi of Oitekaze-beya that have close relations with the facility http://www.yasuragien.or.jp/news/

The design is a duck - the 5 rikishi love to eat that at the local top-restaurant(s) when they come to the center - carrying bananas (not negi - kamonegi ) - the favorite monkey food. http://www.chibanippo.co.jp/news/local/421594

->http://admin.chibanippo.co.jp/assets/enews/chibanippo/20170708/ebook5/contents/image/book/large/image-0010.jpg

more pics of the event for Tobizaru: http://www.yasuragien.or.jp/news/906/

Edited July 9, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,814]

I think I missed the tiger kesho mawashi for Asanoyama while I was in Japan  - the local paper has the article behind the pay wall, which means one has to piece it together from the search result display of short texts http://search.webun.jp/index.html?q=闘虎

It was the 3rd kesho mawashi he received, from the family of his late mentor Urayama Hideki, whose name is on it as the donor

On 26.1.2017 at 18:22, Akinomaki said:

Asanoyama Hideki emphasized the first name of his new full shikona 朝乃山英樹 to honor his former high school sumo coach Urayama Hideki who died on the 21st at the young age of 40 - he took 3 kanji from the name of his mentor.

闘虎 - fighting tiger is written on it, and below the shikona 朝乃山

Edited July 10, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Senkoho 552]

Any info on the all-black kesho-mawashi that Terunofuji wore today?

[fwuzzle23 66]

4 hours ago, Senkoho said:

Any info on the all-black kesho-mawashi that Terunofuji wore today?

http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/32154-rikishi-or-heya-support-events/?page=2#comment-286242

He's had the black one (though I think it's more of a very dark blue) since his ozeki promotion. It's the sixth one down in that comment.

[Akinomaki 40,814]

To have them in this thread

On 13.9.2015 at 00:08, Yubinhaad said:

Here's a closer look at those nine kesho-mawashi.

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The dark blue one has 照ノ富士 - Terunofuji written on it - on TV it really looks like a totally boring black one。It's from the Asia goodwill koenkai - no info about the background.

Edited July 13, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Takayasu gets a fireworks kesho mawashi from his local koenkai, the design was shown at the ozeki promotion party yesterday in Tsuchiura. The city hosts each year in October a national fireworks contest, one of the top 3 of such festivals in Japan. https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1863331.html

Edited July 29, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,814]

On 4/1/2017 at 20:34, Akinomaki said:

On 10/6/2016 at 11:47, Akinomaki said:

The son of Takanohana, Yuuichi Hanada (21) will appear

on NTV

to promote his shoes.

Actually to talk about why he didn't go into sumo and rather studied shoe making in Italy for 3 years, after leaving home at age 15 to study in the US. http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2016/10/06/024/

He was on promotion tour again, on the show "Another GuySky":

And he gets more and more attention, again on Ni-Tere, the show: Shabekuri-007 http://www.ntv.co.jp/007/

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vez6z?start=1424

The good part is at 23:44, 1min, his designs: he also designed (with his sign) the dragon-type kesho mawashi of Takakeisho and Takagenji (in Caduceus style), sponsored by the Ryuujin 龍神 (shrine dragon deity) 総宮社 souguu-sha, the shrine in Kyoto where Takanohana-beya stays for Haru https://www.ryujinsogusha.or.jp/平成２９年度貴乃花部屋宿舎/

- the shrine's channel about the heya: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqmhv0VqJIvy3Oxi90OE-rw

Takakeisho Natsu

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Edited August 2, 2017 by Akinomaki

[rhyen 1,846]

 

Hakuho's newest set, debuted at the ceremonial dohyo iri today

https://mobile.twitter.com/azechiazechi/status/892774450743070723

 

Edited August 4, 2017 by rhyen

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Yutakayama from Niigata TV (NST) on the event of his local Niigata jungyo basho got a new fishy kesho mawashi: with nishiki-goi, the Japanese coloured carps, highly valued especially in Niigata. From the story of carps climbing up waterfalls, the sponsor did chose the koi as the symbol of a successful career. http://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/news/sports/20170804338994.html

Edited August 4, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,814]

On 8/3/2017 at 10:52, rhyen said:

Hakuho's newest set, debuted at the ceremonial dohyo iri today

The set is from Hakuho's new Niigata koenkai, the Shohou-kai 翔鳳会 , formed in February - 翔 is Hakuho's shikona's first name, 鳳 is another kanji for the phoenix in Hakuho. Ready for the dohyo-iri in Shibata, Niigata.

The one for Hakuho shows the kanji 翔 in the form of a phoenix - exactly a 翔鳳

The one for the tachi-mochi shows the Bishamonten, of which Uesugi Kenshin was seen to be an incarnation, and the Niigata prefectural bird, Nipponia Nippon, which is especially cared for in Niigata, on Sado island.

And Niigata is of course famous for top rice, main area to cultivate koshihikari - and the most famous son of the region is Uesugi Kenshin. The one for the tsuyu-harai shows his image and a design of rice plants - but it is not known who created the English phrases.

http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1866474.html

Edited August 7, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Yago got his traditional university kesho-mawashi for juryo promotion: from Chuo university, together with a shimekomi  (silk mawashi for the basho) and akeni to transport them - the status signs of a sekitori http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1881243.html

with the Chudai main coach

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Edited September 2, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Takayasu got a new kesho mawashi from the Tagonoura-koenkai at his ozeki promotion party yesterday. It the shows the Philippine mythical dragon bakunawa. This dragon is said to eat moons - it ate all the other moons there were in myth, so now there only is one. The design equals the banzuke ranks with the moons, the dragon is shown having eaten the lesser 9 moons jk, jd, sd, ms, j, m, k, s and ozeki - and the last remaining in the sky is yokozuna (kutchau - devour - is often used in the meaning of to absolutely overcome someone or master something). The wish to get the 10th, the yokozuna moon as well is what the donors wanted to express with this kesho mawashi (but the bakunawa is always trying and didn't manage to eat the last moon, so this might not be a very fitting symbol for the hope to get the rope). Asked about getting a wife (yome-tori): "Tsuna-tori - getting the rope (comes first), I guess." http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/sumo/20170902-OHT1T50268.html

Edited September 3, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Yubinhaad 11,768]

All three of Takayasu's Ozeki kesho-mawashi were on display at the promotion party, including the fireworks design from his local koenkai.
 

Spoiler

 

[Akinomaki 40,814]

The next standard kesho-mawashi for Yago: from his high school, the well known Saitama Sakae one.

At the presentation: the headmaster, student representatives and sumo coach Yamada, who scouted Yago for the school in his 1st year middle school at a tournament. And when he entered high school, he first couldn't do proper keiko because both knees were injured.

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On 2/3/2017 at 11:52, Akinomaki said:

Amateur yokozuna Yago (22, 186cm, 170kg, Hokkaido, Memuro shusshin) enters Oguruma-beya and plans to start for Haru with his msTD15 qualification, but his knee problems may lead to a later dohyo debut at the Natsu basho

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Daiseido at the party in Hachinohe for his juryo promotion got 2 new kesho mawashi https://this.kiji.is/276890799282652662?c=115337229812450809

the NSK shows another party on the 4th on twitter, but only 1 kesho mawashi in full

From the real estate investment company Partners inc., showing the local Hachinohe Kabushima with the shrine for the umineko gulls that breed there

the other is partly visible, it shows his Sasayama family crest, donor is Kise-beya sponsor HomeTech, a renovation company

Edited September 7, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Yutakayama got a new kesho-mawashi from the Niigata Tokitsukaze tomo-no-kai koenkai. It shows rice ripe for harvest and the protected bird oohishikui which flies at his local Fukushimagata lagoon.

http://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/news/sports/20170930349195.html

[kawika 123]

On 5/5/2017 at 00:06, Orion said:

Decades ago I was informed that, unlike the regular silk mawashi worn for the actual bouts, which goes on next to the skin, they wear a plain loincloth to protect the valuable kesho-mawashi; but I have never attempted to verify this. 

Orion

i asked Yamato, he told me yes, he wore a fundoshi underneath his kensho-mawashi....

[Benihana 1,937]

Otherwise it would be a little bit gross for the tsuyuharai and the tachimochi.

[Akinomaki 40,814]

Asanoyama today got a kesho-mawashi from Kinki daigaku (now Kindai university in English): "At last I got it."

He graduated there in 2016. At present there are Takarafuji, Homarefuji and Tokushoryu from Kindai. Usually the rikishi get it for juryo promotion, but he rose too fast and it wasn't ready.

"I'll give it a try at the basho and if the effect is bad, I change it" (jokingly) - He plans to use it from day 1 to day 8. The kindai top: "Gambarize and aim for yokozuna in the end!"

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"It's very beautiful."

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Edited October 31, 2017 by Akinomaki