Masuiyama activities

[Akinomaki 41,184]

Enough for a thread just for him

Singer Masuiyama again with mage, as magistrate from the Edo period in the parade of the 23rd Echigo nishikawa jidaigeki matsuri in Niigata-city. http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/1722191.html

from other threads

Masuiyama new career as a singer

On 28.11.2015 at 17:04, Akinomaki said:

As Mihogaseki-oyakata he was the 2nd shisho of Kitanoumi: now singer Masuiyama will open a "Chanko Masuiyama" at the keiko ground of the old Mihogaseki-beya, with the old name plates of Kitanoumi, Hokutenyu etc. on the wall like in the heya. http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1572350.html

 

On 30.11.2015 at 11:40, Orion said:

Good luck to Chanko Masuiyama. What memories! My first visit to this place (yes, it's the same place!) must have been in the later 1970s when I was first starting as the Foreign Press Center's employee taking foreign journalists to watch sumo training. The original Ozeki Masuiyama, then Mihogaseki oyakata, was in charge, and his son (later the second Ozeki and much later the shisho) and others were training. Halfway through the keiko session Andy Adams, who was working hard to publicize his English-language magazine "Sumo World" walked in without a greeting and helped himself to a seat on one side. The master gave me a withering glower, but I just pointed to my own group of young visiting journalists from all over Asia,who were sitting properly and just making notes. "No connection!" was the implication.

As I live nearby I have kept tabs on the building (which was first loaned to another shisho) and also to how things were going in the singing career. He seemed to have a charmed life and somehow stayed in his mid-forties for about 20 years. It seems now, however, that it is time to move on, and I wish all success to the newest venture. Whatever you call him, this is a good man, and a man of many talents. Best wishes in his old age.

Orion

 

On 20.1.2016 at 13:47, Akinomaki said:

PR at his Chanko Masuiyama for the former ozeki's new single 男のコップ酒 "A man's cup-sake"

http://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_geinou/articles/hot_20160120_080.html

He had a try at the production of a glass for that drink as another PR event.

 

 

On 14.2.2016 at 20:28, Akinomaki said:

And he sang it live on NHK recently

2 1080p versions awere on YouTube /replaced with 720p still there, but maybe soon gone as well

this from the last NHK Kayou concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfpP3L7LTag

this from NHK BS New - Songs of Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmYF1Gs35NI

On 9.7.2016 at 14:19, Akinomaki said:

in this rikishi song collection on NicoNico it might be included: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8459919

Of course with the usual Masuiyama songs - a playlist with Kotokaze and Masuiyama songs:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-cXcLHsm0haDkAw6Lgtl9L_pN5qgo2xm

 

On 24.12.2015 at 16:18, Akinomaki said:

I hadn't noticed it yet, but presently singer Masuiyama, like his father Masuiyama I, both as Mihogaseki-oyakata shisho of Kitanoumi, is a reasonably good painter as well. Both have had paintings in Nikakai exhibitions, Nikaten.

on the net several sumo paintings of Masuiyama the singer son can be found

http://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20100412/05/motofox501/47/dd/j/o0800106710492858409.jpg

from the nikaten site (2002 exhibition)

I couldn't find any information if the cover for his single "Sonna Yuko ni ..." was painted by himself

 

 

Edited November 10, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,184]

I removed the escaping pics layout to use the thread for more. Tedious to first hide the pics (to be able to edit) and then try to grab them from the post.

All about Masuiyama's geinou activities: http://www.nikkansports.com/search/top-search.html?q=増位山太志郎&ch=芸能

He has a new song to promote 白雪草 shirayuki-sou (white snow grass, some from the edelweiss family)

Karaoke full version with the flower as background  -  text

This means all kind of PR activities for him - for cup sake he had a try at glass making, now at (Chitose-)sweets making (for his sweet voice), in a candy shop in Ometesando. http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/1735790.html

this candy is meant to show he himself as Kintaro

 

there was another nice pic as tono-sama with the 2 other geinou-jin playing wife and daughter.

[Akinomaki 41,184]

Masuiyama on the 3rd this month had a big success with a song show at the boat races in Kurashiki, Okayama. He talked about his deep connection with Okayama, the memorial stone for his great-grandfather, also a rikishi, is at the Saidai temple there. http://www.daily.co.jp/horse/2016/12/03/0009720364.shtml

 

some of his songs on YouTube:

Shirayukisou

Otoko no cup-sake

Sonna Yuko ni horemashita

Yuko no o-mise

Akiko bojou

Fuyuko no blues

Sonna Onna no hitori-goto

Mawari-michi

Yume no hana sakasou

Otoko no senaka

Ima wa shiawase kai

Aman - duett with Mika Shinno  

 

shortened low-res versions without texts from his record company:

Yakatabune - duett with Madoka Kukuchi

Otoko to onna no orugouru - duett with Naomi Matsui

Hisoyaka ni hanayaka ni - duett with Naomi Matsui
 

 

Edited December 9, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,184]

Masuiyama's song debut was in 1972. His 2nd song "Sonna Yuko ni horemashita" (1974) had at first sold 600 000 times - the record company then went bankrupt and at the new one he for the first time got a royalty contract. Afterwards another 650 000 records were sold.

In 1978 he won a best hit award for 1.3 million sold records of his 1977 song "Sonna onna no hitori-goto" and also had a chance for the best record of the year award, but didn't get it. Looks like he also got an offer for the NHK year end kouhaku uta-gassen song festival, but apparently the NSK refused.

Later the NSK prohibited song recordings and only after finishing there at 65 he released new songs. http://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20170205_488943.html

with the award

Edited February 11, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Benihana 1,948]

Oh i wish they had prohibited german football pros from singing *shudder* Compared to them what i hear here and that other thread, is pure gold.

Edited February 12, 2017 by Benihana

[Akinomaki 41,184]

Another new song by Masuiyama - again about sake.

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and women

For this he learned cocktail making - his own creation, with the name of the song: Sake miren

to serve to the 2 beauties

He says he drank too much in his youth and now only had a drink on 3 days in the last 12 months - with his wife. http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/1812737.html

 

Edited April 26, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,184]

For each new single a new performance: this time Masuiyama is ship captain for a day, for his single: "The harbor, the women, the tears." It will go on sales tomorrow.  http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/201809180000061.html

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Edited September 18, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Washuyama 648]

 

"Set a course for adventure, Your mind on a new romance"   

 

Bonus points if you're old enough to get this joke.  (BTW, we need a singing emoji...)

[Yamanashi 3,988]

4 hours ago, Washuyama said:

 

"Set a course for adventure, Your mind on a new romance"   

 

Bonus points if you're old enough to get this joke.  (BTW, we need a singing emoji...)

That's from the great 70's Hakuho show, "The Love GOAT".

[Akinomaki 41,184]

Masuiyama was guest today at NHK variety life laugh encyclopedia http://www.miomio.tv/watch/cc412330/

sumo at 0:33h - vs. Wajima, Masuiyama going for ozeki Hatsu Sh55

http://www.nhk.or.jp/shouhyakka-blog/311155.html

[Akinomaki 41,184]

A new single for Masuiyama and a new trade he shows to promote it: "Gomen ne (sorry), Reiko" - not the Reiwa rei in Reiko and not the one for freezing, which he shows here, but he made a pun of it with rei-ko as abbreviation for his new ice coffee - and he served it to passers by

oo o o

[Akinomaki 41,184]

Masuiyama on the 28th brought chanko to a record shop near his Chanko Masuiyama, in the hope for a new spring for the recording industry, hinting at his latest song, otona no haru ni, in a grown up's spring

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