Corona and sumo

[Amamaniac 1,441]

One of the first Japanese celebrities to fall victim to the Coronavirus pandemic was Shimura Ken (d. March 29).  There is a growing number of YouTube videos available highlighting his comedy repertoire.  While it may have been posted previously in another thread, I feel that the following link sheds light on his comic genius.  Furthermore, it may be of interest to members of this Forum since the subject of this particular skit is life in a sumo stable.  But hopefully it will put a smile on our faces in this age of widespread lockdowns and uncertainty...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shrgrIo4mWA

Enjoy 

Edited May 16, 2020 by Amamaniac

[Akinomaki 28,339]

Now the long stay home messages by the NSK members are delivered with masks

Hoshoryu

Akua

Meisei

Edited May 16, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

Instead of the broadcast of the canceled Natsu basho, NHK will air an "Ozumo special basho" over a span of 3 weeks (the 3 Sundays of a basho), starting on the 24th, 15:05-17:15h JST with "Ozumo this year" from 1987 and from 2004.

Abema on the Ozumo LIVE channel will have "100 famous bouts to remember" in 3 parts.

http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202005170000057.html

Edited May 17, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Kaminariyuki 247]

6 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Instead of the broadcast of the canceled Natsu basho, NHK will air an "Ozumo special basho" over a span of 3 weeks (the 3 Sundays of a basho), starting on the 24th, 15:05-17:15h JST with "Ozumo this year" from 1987 and from 2004.

Abema on the Ozumo LIVE channel will have "100 famous bouts to remember" in 3 parts.

http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202005170000057.html

 

Cool! I hope it's on NHK World/America...

[code_number3 384]

8 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Instead of the broadcast of the canceled Natsu basho, NHK will air an "Ozumo special basho" over a span of 3 weeks (the 3 Sundays of a basho), starting on the 24th, 15:05-17:15h JST with "Ozumo this year" from 1987 and from 2004.

Abema on the Ozumo LIVE channel will have "100 famous bouts to remember" in 3 parts.

http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202005170000057.html

Will @mbovo stream these?

[mbovo 219]

2 hours ago, code_number3 said:

Will @mbovo stream these?

If it's on a channel I get access to, I might just do so Not the one on Abema though.

[Akinomaki 28,339]

The antibody tests for all NSK members have started: today with 2 heya and 43 people. They want to continue at a pace of 2-3 heya/40-50 people per day, to finish the tests within a month. The tests are also for all heya affiliated persons, which apparently includes rikishi personal or heya managers (like ex-Ichinoya) and the okamisan - (now) not NSK members (NSK members are just a bit more than 900, the articles always talk of about 1000 tests). http://www.daily.co.jp/general/2020/05/18/0013352363.shtml

I wonder if it also includes the kids of the oyakata, who live in the same building and use to be in the  heya often.

[Akinomaki 28,339]

The NSK stay home message relay today has Asanoyama and Yutakayama - without masks

Edited May 18, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

"Sekitori time at home" is the present series of NSK stay home messages

Daiamami

Daieisho

another version on the NSK Instagram channel

Edited May 19, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

On 17/05/2020 at 11:21, Akinomaki said:

Instead of the broadcast of the canceled Natsu basho, NHK will air an "Ozumo special basho" over a span of 3 weeks (the 3 Sundays of a basho), starting on the 24th, 15:05-17:15h JST with "Ozumo this year" from 1987 and from 2004.

The shonichi broadcast also has Kakuryu and Asanoyama on schedule talking about their daily life now.

The 2nd Sunday, nakabi, May the 31st comes from 15:10-16:20h with a 1988 program "Famous bouts of Tochinishiki and Wakanohana (I), plus 2 from 1992: about the original  HakuHo era 柏鵬 = Kashiwado-Taiho and about the 3 yokozuna Kitanofuji, Tamanoumi and Kotozakura. From the present, Takakeisho and Terunofuji will take part remote.

Last week, for senshuraku, on June 7th, 16:10-18h, a 2019 program of the series "Mokugeki Nippon" about Enho and from 2008, "Sports Tairiku" about the clash of Asashoryu and Hakuho. And from now, Hakuho and Endo talk remote about their memories.

All is on NHK-G.

https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2162563/full/

o

On 04/11/2019 at 09:18, Akinomaki said:

Culture day was Enho day - first a documentary on him from NHK, Mokugeki! Nippon http://www4.nhk.or.jp/mokugeki-nippon/x/2019-11-03/21/29123/1077364/

34min. video: http://www.pandora.tv/view/kmgt3/59286596/

Edited May 20, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

Kototsurugi has a sekitori at home (and in the heya) short manga series in Hochi shimbun

o o o o o

the NSK today has Tobizaru and Tsurugisho at home

vid vid

[Akinomaki 28,339]

Yesterday some papers in the fuzzy talk of Shibatayama spotted the possibility that the ban on degeiko could be lifted, o

but today the NSK declared that even if the state of emergency is declared over, no degeiko will be allowed. o

Abema has the specials on the 3 Saturdays, makuuchi time: 16-18h JST. On the 23rd "Great turnarounds at the dohyo edge", Hakuho, Asanoyama and Shibatayama take part remote, Waka will be commentating on the bouts. On the 30th "Splendid torikumi" and on the 6th "Handsome rikishi" - they want also there some high ranked rikishi as participants live from the net, surely at least the other 2:

o

Sho sekitori at home stay home messages by the NSK: Daishoho, Daishomaru, Onosho, Takanosho

vid vid vid vid

[robnplunder 828]

Toyko's COVID 19 situation looks really good.   There may be a basho in July unless the situation reverts.   As we all know by now, COVID 19 has been resilient and persistent.  It has a way of coming back if social distancing isn't followed.  Stay the course, Tokyolites!

[Akinomaki 28,339]

This year, due to Corona, the orders by mainly sekitori and heya for hanmono cloth with their names on have dropped by about 70%. It is in special design to make yukata as o-chugen mid year gifts to the ichimon rikishi and special koenkai members or as "uniform" for the rikishi of a heya. To reduce the visits elsewhere, one shisho of a heya has provided it for the rikishi, but not for the koenkai. Also Hakuho so far hasn't ordered. http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20200523/sum20052305020001-n1.html

But Myogiryu has

o

as o-chugen gift for special members of the "Myogiryu club" koenkai

o

some also will be on sale by requests of other supporters

Edited May 23, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

On 22/05/2020 at 17:07, Akinomaki said:

Abema has the specials on the 3 Saturdays, makuuchi time: 16-18h JST. On the 23rd "Great turnarounds at the dohyo edge", Hakuho, Asanoyama and Shibatayama take part remote, Waka will be commentating on the bouts.

Shibatayama: "Till the end we hadn't abandoned hope to hold the May basho, going thoroughly through with precautionary measures, but there also was the state of emergency by the state and we gave up." In his heya, he restarted to have butsukari-geiko and moushi-ai-geiko 3 weeks ago: "I don't let the rikishi of my heya go outside, not even to the convenience store. No kid is in bad physical condition." http://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202005230000427.html

Hakuho: The rikishi he'd want to have a bout with is Futabayama. http://times.abema.tv/posts/7055065

"When I get into yottsu position, none of the rikishi now is a match yet." http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2020/05/24/kiji/20200524s00005000031000c.html

"No pain at the moment. I quickly want to clash." http://times.abema.tv/posts/7055064

Asanoyama - after telling that he wants to live in the heya till he gets married, Waka asked which first: getting the tsuna (tsuna-tori, to yokozuna) or a wife (yome-tori): "Preferably both at the same time" http://times.abema.tv/posts/7055066

The broadcast: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ci4y147nZ

Edited May 24, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

On 22/05/2020 at 17:07, Akinomaki said:

today the NSK declared that even if the state of emergency is declared over, no degeiko will be allowed. o

The state of emergency is declared over, Shibatayama thinks that degeiko will be allowed again only late June, start of July. The goal is a basho in July (day 1 on the 19th), without spectators in the kokugikan.  o

[Akinomaki 28,339]

Terutsuyoshi today donated 20 000 masks to his hometown Minami-Awaji. The actual donation ceremony was at the city hall, but he, the hometown support ambassador no. 1, isn't allowed to leave the heya to travel there now, so his mother took part on his behalf.

o o

showing his video message from the heya

o

sekitori time at home messages: Kotonowaka, Kotoshoho, Kotoeko, Kotoyuki - all at the heya

vid vid vid vid

Edited May 27, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

On 05/05/2020 at 14:01, Akinomaki said:

The rikishi approach towards the virus shown by Kototsurugi does not look wise

o

But the sumo jinku text (by the former editor-in-chief of Baseball Magazine - also for sumo magazines) gives the (sung) proper sumo rules to avoid the three crowding densities - san-mitsu 3密, the onomatopoeic slogan for them in Japan is: むんむん (mun-mun -  mippei 密閉 closed environments) - ぎゅうぎゅう (gyuu-gyuu - misshuu 密集 crowded places) - がやがや (gaya-gaya - missetsu 密接 close contact)

At last this corona sumo jinku appears in song - and it is Daishi who sings and posted it

Edited May 26, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

A detailed video report by NHK Hokkaido about Kyokutaisei and Tomozuna-beya in Corona times - including a recent scene of butsukari-geiko with Kaisei, and at home, Kyokutaisei with his son, born last December

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[Akinomaki 28,339]

Some NSK stay home messages from Twitter and Instagram were shown in the news shows, especially Asanoyama - and with him the NSK starts a compilation in another order of the first 13 in one video on their YT channel - mentioned on TV were also ukulele playing Daieisho and Daiamami

On 18/05/2020 at 13:20, Akinomaki said:

The NSK stay home message relay today has Asanoyama and Yutakayama - without masks

On 22/05/2020 at 17:07, Akinomaki said:

Sho sekitori at home stay home messages by the NSK: Daishoho, Daishomaru, Onosho, Takanosho 

On 19/05/2020 at 16:38, Akinomaki said:

"Sekitori time at home" is the present series of NSK stay home messages

Daiamami  Daieisho

On 20/05/2020 at 12:00, Akinomaki said:

the NSK today has Tobizaru and Tsurugisho at home

in the end the first 3 with masks

On 16/05/2020 at 16:33, Akinomaki said:

Now the long stay home messages by the NSK members are delivered with masks

Hoshoryu Akua Meisei

 

Not yet included are the Sadogatake rikishi, new on Twitter the last from there, Kotoshogiku, plus Ikioi and today Nishikigi

vid vid vid

Edited May 28, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 28,339]

Shibatayama in a phone-interview declared that the NSK notified all heya today again that going out is still forbidden. o

He also told, that the aim is a basho without spectators in the hall: "It's not the time to talk about (an audience)." o

Shohozan at home with the stay home message

vid

[Akinomaki 28,339]

Starting with July 10th, events with up to 5000 spectators are allowed again, but Shibatayama repeated that the NSK first of all aims to have a basho in an empty hall. http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/sports/sumou/1878633/

Today Shibatayama told that the NSK wants to make use of the results of the anti-body tests when they hold the basho. o

Sekitori at home by the NSK: Shodai, Abi, Kiribayama

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Yesterday, Terunofuji and Takakeisho took part remote on the NHK special

o o

Today, NHK Kansai aired a phone interview with Ikioi. He reduced his weight by 20-22kg and does golf at home, to relax and to train his concentration. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/kansai-news/20200601/2000030481.html

Edited June 1, 2020 by Akinomaki

[kawika 120]

On 24/04/2020 at 15:21, Kaiomitsuki said:

I'm sure that the video of the fight between Takahanada and Chiyonofuji is a copy of the video from my Sumo channel... 

And maybe some others videos are create from videos from my channel.... 

I'm not "really" the owner of my videos (all my videos were create more than 10 years ago with sumo dvds i bought online), so i think i can't talk to YouTube about copyright... But at least the owner of this new channel could write that he create a video or more with videos from others channels ;) 

NB : COVID19 effect.... +75% more views in the last 3 months for my channel ! 

 

is this your Sumo Channel?  

[Kaiomitsuki 357]

10 hours ago, kawika said:

is this your Sumo Channel?  

Yes this is my Sumo channel

[robnplunder 828]

 

 

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12 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Starting with July 10th, events with up to 5000 spectators are allowed again, but Shibatayama repeated that the NSK first of all aims to have a basho in an empty hall. http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/sports/sumou/1878633/

Empty hall basho makes sense to me as it is not clear Tokyo will be safe to have 5000 spectator events in July.   Perhaps, holding it outside of Tokyo is a viable option if NSK wants to allow spectators?  I vote for Iwate area.