Sumo obituaries

[Kaiomitsuki 408]

Haru 1976 Day 13

Sekiwake Asahikuni wins against Yokozuna Kitanoumi by Yorikiri (from my YouTube channel )

With a 13-2 record (and the second Jun-Yusho in the row), Asahikuni is promoted Ozeki.

[Inside Sport Japan 762]

Former ozeki Asahikuni, also a trailblazing stablemaster, dies at age 77 - The Japan Times

 

[Akinomaki 40,802]

Today was the family funeral of Asahikuni, with former deshi attending as well (in the back Asahisho and Kyokutaisei), Kyokushuzan cam from Mongolia, he met with the shisho a month ago - also Asahisato/Nakagawa and Kyokudozan were there

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- the present Oshima-oyakata (Kyokutenho) took the real name of the shisho as his Japanese real name.

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Yesterday after the condolence call

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also by Kyokudozan and Hakuho

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the NSK posted a memorial video

 

Edited October 25, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,802]

Not much sumo related, but all over the sumo related news today: Tsuneo Watanabe died today at the age of 98, 9th YDC top, former Yomiuri shimbun top (thus 99% baseball) ...

Member from 1991-2005, during the Waka-Taka boom, YDC top Jan 2001-Jan.2003, during the record kyujo of Taka, giving him the strict order to compete or retire after 7 basho kyujo

http://www.sankei.com/article/20241219-3K4RB5VP6ZCJ3P7H6F7CVVPG3Y/

at the keiko soken April 2004

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Jan. 2004 with female member Uchidate

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2003

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first keiko soken as the new YDC top in Jan. 2003

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inviting NSK members to a baseball game of his team in 1992, with Dewanoumi-rijicho (left)

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Edited December 20, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Kintamayama 45,530]

Kuniazuma the Brazilian has died of a heart attack at the age of 49. Very eventful career, worth checking out- one of my favorite foreign rikishi in the day. 1.92/ 180 kilos. 5 yushos!! 1 in Jonokuchi, 1 in Sandanme, then Jonokuchi again, back to back next basho in Jonidan, and  later in Makushita. 10 bashos in Juryo. Injuries  galore. Missed 146 days in all, 45 of them during his tenure at Juryo. RIP.. After leaving sumo, he became a businessman, dividing his time between Japan and Brazil.

Edited February 4 by Kintamayama

[yorikiried by fate 2,029]

1 hour ago, Kintamayama said:

Kuniazuma the Brazilian has died of a heart attack at the age of 49. Very eventful career, worth checking out- one of my favorite foreign rikishi in the day. 1.92/ 180 kilos. 5 yushos!! 1 in Jonokuchi, 1 in Sandanme, then Jonokuchi again, back to back next basho in Jonidan, and  later in Makushita. 10 bashos in Juryo. Injuries  galore. Missed 146 days in all, 45 of them during his tenure at Juryo. RIP.. After leaving sumo, he became a businessman, dividing his time between Japan and Brazil.

Noooooo! Not the quasi-namesake of my erstwhile sumo games shikona!!

Never saw you fight bro, but peacefully RIP. I won't forget you.

[Akinomaki 40,802]

2 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

Kuniazuma the Brazilian has died of a heart attack at the age of 49

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during his career height - as j5e in the yusho parade at the first yusho of Tochiazuma, Hatsu 2002

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[Asashosakari 19,668]

Hmm, I can't find any trace of this having been mentioned on the forum until now. (I ran into it on ja.wiki.) On December 8, 2023, Lynn Matsuoka reported the passing of her ex-husband, former maegashira Iwatora. They had moved to the US following his active career, first to Hawaii and then to New York, where he eventually established a Japanese restaurant, nowadays run by their two sons.

Edit: A local paper reported the date of death as December 5.

Edited April 2 by Asashosakari

[Akinomaki 40,802]

Shikihide-beya's Wakatozakura has died yesterday 14:43h JST in a hospital in Ibaraki pref. at age 33 due to necrotizing fasciitis

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The NSK announced it today https://www.sumo.or.jp/IrohaKyokaiInformation/detail?id=691

day 11 last basho

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Edited April 15 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,802]

Makimoto Eisuke, 牧本英輔, as sekitori also under the shikona Todoroki, has died on Apr. 3rd. at age 84. The local Kumanichi shimbun had posted an article, but it is restricted to Japan and in addition behind the paywall.  o 

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[rokudenashi 328]

It took Makimoto just over 10 years to establish himself in sekitorihood following a brief stint in 1965, then following his final demotion from jūryō, he stuck around for a further decade in the lower ranks, therefore witnessing the yokozuna promotions of both Taihō and Chiyonofuji during his active career.

Makimoto was viewed as so much of a prospect during his high school days that ex-Kagamisato would routinely travel down to Kumamoto by plane to visit him, eventually coercing the young wrestler to join Tokitsukaze stable.

However, following Futabayama’s passing and the ensuing battle over who would inherit the stable, Makimoto opted not to follow the man who brought him into ōzumō to the newly-established Tatsutagawa stable, instead remaining at Tokitsukaze until retirement.

Edited yesterday at 13:16 by rokudenashi
Forgot he spent a couple of tournaments in jūryō in 1965