Local characters with sumo touch

[Akinomaki 34,816]

Iruma-city, Saitama, has a new one as tourist ambassador, and calls for name proposals till the 12th this month. The city's bird is a skylark, sumo is popular there and tea 茶 is produced, sayama-cha, the hiragana say Iruma - the story thus:

It's a young skylark-boy who wants to win the Iruma wampaku sumo tournament.

So how do we call him?

http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/saitama/list/201601/CK2016011502000152.html

Edited February 1, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 34,816]

On 1.2.2016 at 19:50, Akinomaki said:

Iruma-city, Saitama, has a new one as tourist ambassador, and calls for name proposals till the 12th this month. The city's bird is a skylark, sumo is popular there and tea 茶 is produced, sayama-cha, the hiragana say Iruma - the story thus:

It's a young skylark-boy who wants to win the Iruma wampaku sumo tournament.

So how do we call him?

IruTea is the name. http://iruma-kanko.jp/新たな観光大使「いるティー」を紹介します！！/

An update on other macots

On 27.10.2013 at 17:27, Akinomaki said:

JA (Japan Agricultural Cooperatives) Kahoku, Ishikawa pref. mascot Hokunosato: carrying rice bags, (no) hair like an amateur rikishi but a green mawashi (rather just a fundoshi) like an ozumo sekitori and trousers like a non-rikishi, 180cm, 100kg.

not much about this one, no profile page and not in the mascot contest so far - at least he looks more like a rikishi now

On 7.6.2015 at 11:57, Akinomaki said:

This one looks better but is said to actually be still weak. Komakiyama from Komaki-city in Aichi prefecture

Komakiyama has a very big page now, wallpapers, a picture book etc.

 

Last year the number of local and corporate mascots in the election was over 1600, a search for the ones with sumo relation: 相撲 OR 力士 site:www.yurugp.jp/vote/

Mostly mascots that like sumo or are good at it, but not many who really look like that.

Kamin is one, from the town where kami-zumo is played: he represents the small god that always wins.

the mascot isn't black though

On 12.8.2016 at 11:21, Akinomaki said:

Kami-zumo is said to be the oldest puppet show in Japan and is held every 4 years, at the Hachimankohyō shrine in Yoshitomi town, Fukuoka.

- the small black one, Sumiyoshi-no-ookami, last standing from the west side, always wins, regardless how many from the east side go against him

 

Edited November 9, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 34,816]

6th national mascot character sumo tournament in Tsugaru city today
o o o o

Edited September 17, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Yamanashi 2,919]

5 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

a mascot character sumo tournament in Tsugaru city today

o o o o

Relaxed rules, no doubt, as none of the contestants can get their hands on the ground before tachiai.

 

[Naganoyama 5,366]

24 minutes ago, Yamanashi said:

Relaxed rules, no doubt, as none of the contestants can get their hands on the ground before tachiai.

 

I can just see Kimura Konosuke bellowing at them to get their hands down.

[Akinomaki 34,816]

7 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

6th national mascot character sumo tournament in Tsugaru city today

22 mascots - local TsuGirl(tsugaaru)-chan won the yusho

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1st round - Fukurou 福ロウ, the local paper's mascot lost

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last year the same torikumi in the final

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Aomori prefecture produce mascot Kimete-kun always is (2nd)  gyoji

Edited September 17, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Yamanashi 2,919]

So sad.  Young mascots dine on cabbage for years to get such large heads, and then retire at 30, no longer kawaii, with a lifetime of headaches awaiting them.