New recruits for Hatsu 2017

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Fukuyama Sena  (21 - 4th year, 172cm, 100kg) member of the Sendai sumo club (not the prefecture, Senshu university) will join Fujishima-beya. From Amami-city, Kagoshima, 3rd at the 100kg class of the national weight divisions students championships in September. http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20161209/sum16120920540001-n1.html

in September:

http://sensupo.com/news/detail/id/4992

 

Edited December 13, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,852]

Ex-Homasho has scouted rugby club member Harada (17, 184cm, 85kg) for Shikoroyama-beya. Takagawa-gakuen high 3rd year from Yamaguchi-city: "I want to become a rikishi loved by the Yamaguchi and the Japanese people."

His rugby club was 2nd this year in the Yamaguchi championships, in middle school he only did baseball: he is without sumo experience, but thinks that sumo like rugby is a contact sport and wants to make use of his height.

Tatsutagawa-oyakata had a lecture at the high school this year and went to the rugby club to watch training, where Harada caught his eye. In September Harada visited Shikoroyama-beya and then decided to enter. Till the shindeshi kensa in January he plans to increase meals to 6 a day and to train his muscles.

Ex-Homasho: "I think I will advance as an oyakata while he advances."

Ex-Terao: "I had the same physique when I entered."

http://www.minato-yamaguchi.co.jp/yama/news/digest/2016/1210/5p.html

Both oyakata were at the school yesterday

 

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6 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Till the shindeshi kensa in January he plans to increase meals to 6 a day and to train his muscles.

I was re-watching the Lord of the Ring movies and this reminds me of 

 

[Akinomaki 41,852]

On 9.12.2016 at 16:45, Akinomaki said:

Fukuyama Sena Seiwa(?)  (21 - 4th year, 172cm, 100kg) member of the Sendai sumo club (not the prefecture, Senshu university) will join Fujishima-beya. From Amami-city, Kagoshima, 3rd at the 100kg class of the national weight divisions students championships in September.

He was named after F1 racer Ayrton Senna: he was in the womb of his mother when Senna died during a race. His father was apparently a great Senna fan - reminds me of this:

On 27.12.2012 at 12:10, Akinomaki said:

The name Baraki comes from a Charles Bronson mafia film the father liked, The Valachi papers, "Baraki" in Japanese

A training camp at Fujishima-beya in May made Fukuyama enter there: "I thought I'm too small for sumo, but the training camp got me interested. Because there are popular small ones now, I wanted to give it a try as well." Satoyama is his Amami-city and Kagoshima commercial high school senior, and he is his ideal for a rikishi.

Fukuyama has no interest at all in motor racing, but asked about F1-sumo (the label for Kotonishiki): "I'll do my best to get to that." http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/sumo/20161213-OHT1T50094.html

the oyakata came to the Kawasaki campus for the announcement to the press

 

[Akinomaki 41,852]

Fukuyama will start not next, but at the Haru-basho http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2016/12/13/kiji/K20161213013903120.html

He may do an izori before Ura - he did none this year but before that 1 or 2 a year in university and once at a high school tournament. "I want to become a juryo and makuuchi rikishi loved at home", "I want to get to 120kg", "I want to do a powerful sumo like the oyakata" and of course "The goal is yokozuna." Fujishima-oyakata is his Senshu university senior.
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Edited December 14, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Benihana 1,974]

6 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

He was named after F1 racer Ayrton Senna: he was in the womb of his mother when Senna died during a race. His father was apparently a great Senna fan - reminds me of this:

A training camp at Fujishima-beya in May made Fukuyama enter there: "I thought I'm too small for sumo, but the training camp got me interested. Because there are popular small ones now, I wanted to give it a try as well." Satoyama is his Amami-city and Kagoshima commercial high school senior, and he is his ideal for a rikishi.

Fukuyama has no interest at all in motor racing, but asked about F1-sumo (the label for Kotonishiki): "I'll do my best to get to that." http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/sumo/20161213-OHT1T50094.html

the oyakata came to the Kawasaki campus for the announcement to the press

 

Where does the "Baraki" come from? I'm confused.

[Akinomaki 41,852]

1 hour ago, Benihana said:

Where does the "Baraki" come from? I'm confused.

That's just me being always confused by the way the first names of the present youth get selected sometimes - and especially the incomprehensible representation in the kanji characters used for that.

I had seen the film under the title"Baraki" (as katakana representation of Valachi, the character Charles Bronson played)  in Japan, so I immediately knew what the news then were about (and didn't bother to explain it further).

But I'm confident ex-Musoyama won't use some of the Sena part of Fukuyama's name for his shikona - that is what Shikihide did with Baraki - though he also liked the similarity to Ibaraki prefecture, where the heya is - which made Baraki's full shikona being derived from the slogan "Ibaraki genki!"

Edited December 13, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Benihana 1,974]

28 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

That's just me being always confused by the way the first names of the present youth get selected sometimes - and especially the incomprehensible representation in the kanji characters used for that.

I had seen the film under the title"Baraki" (katakana representation of Valachi, the character Charles Bronson played)  in Japan, so I immediately knew what the news then were about.

But I'm confident ex-Musoyama won't use some of the Sena part of Fukuyama's name for his shikona - that is what Shikihide did with Baraki - though he also liked the similarity to Ibaraki prefecture, where the heya is - which made Baraki's full shikona being derived from the slogan "Ibaraki genki!"

Aaah, jetzt ja.

In your first post you say "The name Baraki comes from a Charles Bronson mafia film the father liked, The Valachi papers, "Baraki" in Japanese", without any reference. I didn't know there was a rikishi called Baraki with a slightly similar story.

[Akinomaki 41,852]

14 minutes ago, Benihana said:

you say "The name Baraki comes from a Charles Bronson mafia film the father liked, The Valachi papers, "Baraki" in Japanese", without any reference.

The reference is always the quote: it has the (barely visible) link (as an arrow in the top right corner) to the original post, where the whole story can be checked.

Edited December 13, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Benihana 1,974]

1 minute ago, Akinomaki said:

The reference is always the quote: it has the link to the original post, where the whole story can be checked.

Well, how do i put this: This is a really cool feature, i did not know about...

[Yubinhaad 11,977]

4 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

He may do an izori before Ura - he did none this year but before that 1 or 2 a year in university and once at a high school tournament.

Indeed, and you can see one in the bout starting at 6m:18s in this video, from an East Japan competition at Yasukuni jinja last year. I think the opponent is the same Nishizawa who was part of the winning Nittai-dai team in this tournament three months ago.
 

 

[Akinomaki 41,852]

The 2nd private deshi for Futagoyama-oyakata (Miyabiyama, who will some day get independent) will enter Fujishima-beya and be at the shindeshi kensa for Hatsu, Yabuoka (18, 180cm, 91kg). A former koushien high school baseball player from Osaka Kaisei Gakuen high without sumo experience, but bench press power of 90kg and dead lift of 230kg and with the answer of "I have confidence" to make it in sumo, which the oyakata comments as "He has a big mouth." Yabuoka has a koenkai acquaintance which brought him to sumo and also fits into some plan of the sports ministry to scout baseball kids for other sports.

http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/sumo/20161214-OHT1T50063.html

http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1751774.html

 

 

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The riji-kai approved of the first to profit from the new higher age limit of below 25 instead of 23 for experienced athletes (not just the tsukedashi ones): it is Yamamoto (23, 187cm, 125kg) for Nishonoseki-beya. He's from Chuo university and was in the best 16 of last year's student championships, but he first took on a job in Hokkaido, at the town hall of Fukushima (the home of Chiyonofuji). "I wanted to give real fighting another try." The oyakata: "I want him to reach sekitori in 2 years."

http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20161221/sum16122118290003-n1.html

 

Edited December 21, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 41,852]

On 14.12.2016 at 11:52, Akinomaki said:

The 2nd private deshi for Futagoyama-oyakata (Miyabiyama, who will some day get independent) will enter Fujishima-beya and be at the shindeshi kensa for Hatsu, Yabuoka (18, 180cm, 91kg). A former koushien high school baseball player from Osaka Kaisei Gakuen high without sumo experience, but bench press power of 90kg and dead lift of 230kg and with the answer of "I have confidence" to make it in sumo, which the oyakata comments as "He has a big mouth." Yabuoka has a koenkai acquaintance which brought him to sumo and also fits into some plan of the sports ministry to scout baseball kids for other sports.

Yabuoka is from Higashi-Osaka city. At around age 10 he became acquainted with Miyabiyama via that koenkai member and had been asked to join the sumo world after middle school, but he wanted to polish his skills in baseball and went to high school first. In baseball he couldn't become a regular and had to decide what to do after graduation:  "I wasn't good at studying, but I'm confident about my physical strength."

The sports ministry in autumn did an aptitude test for high school athletes who would retire from their sports after the great tournaments, koushien and inter-high, and published a plan with recommendations to which other sports to switch. Yabuoka: "I was fascinatied by sumo."

http://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2016122400039&g=spo

Edited December 24, 2016 by Akinomaki

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8 have applied for the shindeshi-kensa on the 28th. The focus is on Yamamoto as the first to enter under the relaxed age limit (see above). Another is the nephew of Onoe-oyakata (Hamanoshima) for his uncle's heya: former middle school yokozuna Ryuko Kawakami from Kumamoto and the Buntoku-high sumo club. Yusho at the high school select tournament in Hirosaki this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uv9sIpBWD0

http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20161226/sum16122619140009-n1.html

[Akinomaki 41,852]

On 21.12.2016 at 19:13, Akinomaki said:

The riji-kai approved of the first to profit from the new higher age limit of below 25 instead of 23 for experienced athletes (not just the tsukedashi ones): it is Yamamoto (23, 187cm, 125kg) for Nishonoseki-beya. He's from Chuo university and was in the best 16 of last year's student championships, but he first took on a job in Hokkaido, at the town hall of Fukushima (the home of Chiyonofuji). "I wanted to give real fighting another try." The oyakata: "I want him to reach sekitori in 2 years."

All 8 passed the initial check and wait for the results of the medicals.

Yamamoto with 186cm, 126kg: "Finally I get going. Because I'm entering later than those from my school year, I want to do my best to catch up with them." "I want to get up (to juryo) in 3, 4 years." http://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2016122800583&g=spo

While working at the town hall of Fukushima he also was sumo coach for kids, but with the relaxing of the rules he decided to enter, after the frustration about reaching only the top 16 of the kokutai this year had rekindled his desire for sumo. http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1757936.html

Nishonoseki-oyakata: "We'd be grateful if more people want to become rikishi."  http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20161228/sum16122816330006-n1.html

unusual to show this and not the measuring:

Edit: the forum was down for a moment, but the first post was saved nonetheless

Edited December 28, 2016 by Akinomaki

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On 26.12.2016 at 17:36, Akinomaki said:

the nephew of Onoe-oyakata (Hamanoshima) for his uncle's heya: former middle school yokozuna Ryuko Kawakami from Kumamoto and the Buntoku-high sumo club.

Kawakami (18, 180cm, 126kg) started sumo at age 4. He's from Uto-city, same as Shodai - they are from the same sumo-club: "It's the feeling of 'I'm going to become a rikishi'. I want to reach sekitori within 2 years." "I'm aiming to become like the oyakata, whom I admired since early childhood. I got it taught and made it my own." http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1757942.html

Edited December 28, 2016 by Akinomaki

[mikawa 1,794]

7 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Kawakami (18, 180cm, 126kg) started sumo at age 4. He's from Uto-city, same as Shodai - they are from the same sumo-club: "It's the feeling of 'I'm going to become a rikishi'. I want to reach sekitori within 2 years." "I'm aiming to become like the oyakata, whom I admired since early childhood. I got it taught and made it my own." http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/1757942.html

A former member of Udo Junior Sumo Club in fact (as are Shodai and Furukawa Haruki). Kawakami Ryuko (川上 竜虎) is a very good rikishi, probably the 3rd best that Kumamoto has produced over the past ten years or so (behind Shodai and Haruki). Aside from being Middle School Yokozuna, Kawakami has also won the Hakuho Cup, as well as the Middle School Student Championships (where he defeated the current High School Yokozuna Yamaguchi Reo (山口 怜央) in the final), all in the same year, which is the triple crown of middle school sumo.

Here's two more videos of Kawakami (both left), both finals:

His progress in Ozumo might go along the lines of Takakeisho (aka Sato), so Sekitori in 2 years is certainly achievable.

Edited December 28, 2016 by mikawa

[Akinomaki 41,852]

The N-sta report from yesterday on the shin-deshi kensa with Kawakami

 

Edited December 29, 2016 by Akinomaki

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NSK data:
SHIKONA	KANJI	NAME	HEYA	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	DOB	BIRTHPLACE
Chiyo	千代	Chiyo Kazuki	Isegahama	169	109	15 - July - 1998	Fukushima
Harada	原田	Harada Masaki	Shikoroyama	183	86	21 - January - 1999	Yamaguchi
Kawakami	川上	Kawakami Ryuko	Onoe	180	126	23 - June - 1998	Kumamoto
Kobayashi	小林	Kobayashi Mineo	Tomozuna	173	106	02 - August - 1994	Chiba
Omura	大村	Omura Gennosuke	Michinoku	167	67	25 - September- 1998	Fukuoka
Shido	志戸	Shido Daisuke	Kise	173	98	18 - March - 1999	Kumamoto
Yabuoka	藪岡	Yabuoka Kazutaka	Fujishima	180	87	07 - September- 1998	Osaka
Yamamoto	山本	Yamamoto Daiki	Nishonoseki	186	126	01 - October - 1993	Hokkaido

 

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Shame Chiyo is at the wrong stable.

[Akinomaki 41,852]

Nishonoseki-beya's late starter Yamamoto changed shikona to (likely) Ichiyamamoto 一山本 and won his first maezumo bout, as did Onoe-beya's Kawakami. http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20170110/sum17011016270006-n1.html

Restarter Tokuda also won. http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/sumo/20170110-OHT1T50071.html

Ichiyamamoto

[Akinomaki 41,852]

Maezumo on day 3

 

Edited January 10, 2017 by Akinomaki

[Asashosakari 20,290]

Musashigawa-beya's Tokuda and Nishimura are in from banzuke-gai.

Results:

Mz1   Tokuda (1-0)            Mz3   Kobayashi (0-1)
Mz2   Nishimura (0-1)         Mz4   Ichiyamamoto (1-0)
Mz5   Harada (0-1)            Mz6   Yabuoka (1-0)
Mz7   Omura (0-1)             Mz8   Shido (1-0)
Mz9   Kawakami (1-0)          Mz10  Aizufuji (0-1)

Standings:

Mz1   Tokuda        Musashigawa  1-0   |   Mz2   Nishimura  Musashigawa  0-1
Mz4   Ichiyamamoto  Nishonoseki  1-0   |   Mz3   Kobayashi  Tomozuna     0-1
Mz6   Yabuoka       Fujishima    1-0   |   Mz5   Harada     Shikoroyama  0-1
Mz8   Shido         Kise         1-0   |   Mz7   Omura      Michinoku    0-1
Mz9   Kawakami      Onoe         1-0   |   Mz10  Aizufuji   Isegahama    0-1

Ichiyamamoto 一山本 = Yamamoto, as mentioned above, and in addition Aizufuji 会津富士 = Chiyo.

(By the way, did anyone ever find a full video of the one-day Kyushu maezumo session?)

Edited January 10, 2017 by Asashosakari

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Asashosakari;  Can you explain Mz1, Mz2, etc? Do you pick these numbers or does the Kyokai? If so, what is the reasoning?