Oyakata activities

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Furiwake and Mihogaseki were at a presentation of NSK official goods designed by students of Jissen Women's University  at an open campus event on Aug. 5th

with items for having a photo taken outside the kokugikan during the Natsu basho

o o o

The NSK held the 35th national sumo educator courses last month, at different locations

Kagamiyama as head of the guidance department gave the opening address, newbie Onogawa had a special lecture: "Sumo and me"

ooo

day 2: putting on the mawashi

o o

day 3 in Kusatsu

o o

actual keiko, Kagamiyama and Mihogaseki watch, Otowayama lends his chest, he and Kabutoyama instruct, with the help of Toho

oo o o

Edited September 1, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Benihana 1,971]

Does that mean they are now selling fake giant macarons? Please say yes and please say they are reasonably priced.

 

[Akinomaki 41,784]

10 hours ago, Benihana said:

Does that mean they are now selling fake giant macarons? Please say yes and please say they are reasonably priced.

Unfortunately the article doesn't say if the girls designed also this macaron version - the kensho banners were listed to be real ones when I was there to have a photo taken with it - and I don't think Nagatanien had them designed by Jissen. That fake macaron gets spent during one basho's event - it crumbles:

On 23/05/2018 at 06:59, Akinomaki said:

at the Sumo market outside, the macaron is a small and already quite battered version

looks only big with kawaii girls like this - the kensho banners and the kensho pack (empty envelopes) are real ones though

o o

kensho banners are for Nagatanien and for Mochi-kichi sembei, which also are a present option (also o-cha-zuke from N.) when you get a photo taken with the items - by NSK part time helpers - in the hope you buy more sembei at the nearby Mochi-kichi booth

maybe the part time helpers and the girls on the photos above at the sumo market event also were from Jissen univ.

[Benihana 1,971]

Mmmh, too bad. Fortunately Amazon sells giant plushie macarons (alt. link for delivery to yurop). And both are reasonably priced.

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Michinoku-oyakata (as Kirishima the Alain Delon of sumo) today had his kanreki celebration in the kokugikan event floor  - his 60th birthday is on Apr. 3rd.  About 200 guests, KONISHIKI among them.

in the traditional kanreki outfit

  o o  o o

a zabuton from Kiribayama, the new juryo at last

o

Edited February 13, 2019 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Tomozuna (Kyokutenho) won this year's Sponichi charity golf tournament

o

 

Nakamura (Yoshikaze) went with his brothers to Sanji, one of their apparently favorite restaurants, to start a Sanji low carbs diet

o

I guess oyakata are not yet obliged to appear in public with a proper shave

Edited October 17, 2019 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Takasago-oyakata (Asasekiryu) took part in the dohyo-shime year end ceremony of the sumo club of Fujinomiya Kita high school. He has close connections to the location, since his active days he took part in the setsubun festivities at the Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha, had in Fuji city a party to celebrate his name succession and more: "I want to raise  ozeki/yokozuna from Fuji, Fujinomiya in the future". http://www.at-s.com/news/article/shizuoka/1004696.html

a translation gem about it on the Facebook site of the school

Quote

北高相撲場にて令和３年　土俵締めが行われ、元関脇　朝赤龍太郎が激励に来てくれました。

At the Kita High Sumo Theater reiwa The ground was buried for 3 years, and former Seki-cho Shintaro Asaka came to encourage us.

Edited December 26, 2021 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Nakamura (Yoshikaze) today had a Zoom online talk event on to present his biography, which goes on sale Feb.14th. Of course he also did PR for his danpatsushiki on Feb 5th. https://hochi.news/articles/20220130-OHT1T51156.html?page=1

https://yoshikazebookevent20220130.peatix.com/

[Akinomaki 41,784]

A good old sumo tradition revived: golf tournaments

The 3 new ex-yokozuna had one last December, Nishonoseki, Kakuryu and Magaki with Nakamura (Yoshikaze) - and not ex-Ikioi - plus Onogawa and Otowayama as hosts. For the event of reaching 100 000 YT channel subscribers the NSK posted 3 videos of it, with a campaign to win presents.

1st half

2nd half https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-09GFnoMgY

Extra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clrRWmvefQs

Extra Nishonoseki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWt0i0kO1oc

Extra Magaki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKkYKq8tLM

Extra Kakuryu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlcXz1TsbpQ

Extra Yoshikaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXGWlYAPBGw

o o o o o

 

Nishikido (Mitoizumi, 59) has VTR interview appearances at the YT pay-stream live online concerts of his wife Yukiko Ono, opera singer (soprano). On the 17th she has a birthday concert (born March 18th 1984), last year she had 2 concerts - the appearances by the oyakata are particularly popular.

o

One concert she had to drop due to a corona infection, which she passed on to the oyakata as well, causing the heya to shutdown for a basho. Coughing went on for a month after she recuperated for 10 days at home, and a soar throat in the morning. https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/entame/news/4036277/

Edited March 13, 2022 by Akinomaki

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Magaki does PR for the pro-wrestling even in the kokugikan on April 10th

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Hidenoyama/Kotoshogiku was home in Yanagawa and on the 2nd held an outdoor sumo class for about 200 primary school kids/600 citizens. He told them that he wants to open an Hidenoyama-beya.

o  o

there to demonstrate sumo was Kotomyozan

Edited April 11, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 4,109]

Not sure whether this is the right place for NSK between-basho activities not strictly sumo-related, but it seems that some of the oyakata (apparently from the Societal Contribution department) had a training session conducted by Japanese civil defence forces:

Quite a long thread, with images variously of Magaki (ex-Hakuhō), Sanoyama (ex-Chiyootori), Ajigawa (ex-Aminishiki), Kasugayama (ex-Ikioi), and various others practicing the use of fire hoses, fire extinguishers, and conducting CPR.

Perhaps worth bringing up the case of the Sakaigawa rikishi who rescued a woman from drowning in a nearby river, so such information is always good to have knocking around the general sumo community.

Edited April 13, 2022 by Seiyashi

[Akinomaki 41,784]

4 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

a training session conducted by Japanese civil defence forces:

Tokyo main fire department members conduct these regular training sessions, I usually posted them in the basho preparation threads, but the first time in this thread search/?&q=fire oyakata&author=Akinomaki&search_and_or=and

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Sadogatake-oyakata with Kotonowaka took part in an event in the oyakata's home prefecture Yamagata, the opening of a supermarket, and had a talk-show afterwards. The new chief shimpan about the mono-ii conference explanation: "The most troubling while reading out the name is Wakatakakage, he himself says it's difficult to call."

with video: http://www.ybc.co.jp/nnn/news119fkly7j893asv6sp8.html - get with youtube-dl:

Spoiler

youtube-dl -q -o v.mp4  "http://manifest.prod.boltdns.net/manifest/v1/hls/v4/clear/3974243805001/fd242424-05d8-4db1-a33e-d767b8d33556/5e994323-9b97-43d0-bc42-6ad6c364cffe/10s/rendition.m3u8?fastly_token=NjI3ZTdiZWRfODczYmNjNGZkNDgxYzdkZGI0MjE2ZTk5NDA3ZTZjNjZjNmRhMTI3NjcxMjY2YjQ2Y2I2NDU4NTE3NDU1OTE2MA%3D%3D"
youtube-dl -q -o a.mp4  "http://manifest.prod.boltdns.net/manifest/v1/hls/v4/clear/3974243805001/fd242424-05d8-4db1-a33e-d767b8d33556/45cb2f20-fe9f-4af9-9739-f2cb9c81c506/10s/rendition.m3u8?fastly_token=NjI3ZTdiZWRfN2RiZDEyMWMwNTBiNzFlNDNkNTc5YTU4MTBmODQ3MzFhOTdlZjM3MTJhMjcyNjkxZmE4YzE2ZTJlYTQ4ODkyOA%3D%3D"
ffmpeg -i "v.mp4" -i "a.mp4" -c copy -map 0:v  -map 1:a  "「三役目指す」　佐渡ヶ嶽親方と琴ノ若がトークショー 山形 NNN.mp4"

the local paper had a video on YT, but it is private now https://www.47news.jp/localnews/7664888.html

Edited April 18, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 4,109]

14 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

"The most troubling while reading out the name is Wakatakakage, he himself says it's difficult to call."

In before the shimpanbu decide to promote Wakatakakage on an otherwise weak record, just so he has an excuse to take up his grandfather's shikona.

(Obviously kidding...)

[Seiyashi 4,109]

On 13/04/2022 at 16:56, Seiyashi said:

it seems that some of the oyakata (apparently from the Societal Contribution department) had a training session conducted by Japanese civil defence forces:

The NSK's posted the video digest of the training.

Highlights:

• 0:20: Magaki finds out why, in CPR, they say you break a rib if you do it properly. Sounds like he broke more than just a rib, though...
• 0:40: Arashio demonstrating crowd control drills, by specifically directing members of the crowd to go for assistance. Specifically, he asks one oyakata (can't tell who it is) to go call an ambulance, and gets Kasugayama to fetch an AED. (For future reference, this is actually standard practice in a crisis: directing specific members of the public avoids onlooker/bystander syndrome.)
• 1:10: Subtitles state that all heya are provided with an AED.
• 1:30: Firefighting training with water extinguishers, showing Magaki alongside Nakamura.
• 1:55: Lessons on the use of the fire hose, with Magaki taking point and communicating with those actually operating the valve.
• 2:40~: Spray can be adjusted by means of a rotatable nozzle on the end.
• The oyakata were split into A and B teams. The aforementioned were in the A team; Shiranui, Takekuma, Kakuryū and Izutsu were in the B team.
• 3:56: Shiranui gets a small lesson on how to best use the nozzle.
• The digest rounds off with some interviews, including Kakuryū doing PR for Natsu and Ajigawa advertising his danpatsu on 29 May.

Edited April 19, 2022 by Seiyashi

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Shibatayama was the NSK representative and raised a toast at the party in the kokugikan banquet hall (down below) to celebrate 150 years of Hochi shimbun and the move of the paper's head office to a location near the kokugikan. o

Takasago's Kunio and Rikinojo gave a taiko performance

Edited September 30, 2022 by Akinomaki

[rhyen 1,858]

Kiyomigata & Tateyama oyakata at a Q&A session

 

[Kintamayama 47,194]

[Akinomaki 41,784]

Soccer news: "I support the national team of Japan" - Kakuryu - the hope to make it through in Group E against Germany, Spain and Costa Rica

http://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/japan/news/202211110000848.html 

o

Edited November 12, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,784]

On 12/11/2022 at 18:36, Akinomaki said:

Soccer news: "I support the national team of Japan" - Kakuryu - the hope to make it through in Group E against Germany, Spain and Costa Rica



NSK soccer expert Kakuryu had declared after the loss to Costa Rica: "I told you, don't become a 2nd Saudi Arabia" - he'll be happy now

 

Hidenoyama was at RDonald McDonald House Fukuoka on the 28th to mingle with the families of hospitalized children, doing kami-zumo with them http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/item/n/1020789/

 

Tateyama (Homarefuji) talked to the local Aomori paper about his time at Goshogawara agri./forest. high school. He's the 5th sekitori graduated from there http://www.toonippo.co.jp/articles/-/1430111

The sumo club was established in 1936, top from there was sekiwake Dewanohana

o

Edited December 2, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,784]

After 3 years a yokozuna-kai was held again, usually it's before the Kyushu basho. First time as shisho for Miyagino and Nishonoseki, who was the coordinator of the event. 7 took part, the only active Terunofuji, Hakkaku, Isegahama, Shibatayama and Musashigawa - Kakuryu (the only non-shisho among the oyakata) was absent o

o

Half of the 8 now in the NSK are foreign born

Edited December 19, 2022 by Akinomaki

[RabidJohn 2,060]

I've never been much of a collar & tie man (and thankfully never worked anywhere that required it), so I'm wondering about Nishonoseki's curled up collar. 
Is it "the latest style" or just ignorance about the need for starch?

[Jakusotsu 6,390]

It's called origami.

[Seiyashi 4,109]

Bad laundry and an ill-fitting shirt, by the looks of it. That tie knot looks too wide, too. Hakuhō has less going for him in the pocket square and haircut department, but at least his shirt and tie look better.

Sartorial matters aside, what's the main remit of the yokozuna-kai? Just basically an old-boys club for ex-yokozuna?

Edited December 20, 2022 by Seiyashi