Hakuho retires

[junsan 167]

Kimigayo is a beautiful anthem, and can be very rousing in a choral-orchestral form. But I can't help but feel dissapointed by GACKT's spiritless rendition of it. Compare that to the roaring performance by Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar that followed. Maybe I'm overthinking.. but was this done by design on someone's part? I wonder....

 

[Katooshu 3,079]

Wow, powerful voice! Vocal yokozuna....looks just as big as Hak too 

Edited January 31, 2023 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 39,497]

ZakZak comments on Hakuho's plans to recruit top amateur rikishi http://www.zakzak.co.jp/article/20230130-B4YDOVITSNNGJHDYREOLYF5AJ4/

The 2 from Tottori Johoku and now Dōshisha University who fought Hakuho are both called new hopes who aim for ozumo

On 27/01/2023 at 18:17, Seiyashi said:

Hakuhō's final sumo, versus:

1. Mahatō (eldest son)
2. Batjargal Munk- (can't make this out, nephew)
3. Usukhbayar Demidjants (notable amateur sumo wrestler featured in our ams section, teammate of Hakuhō's nephew, and son of a famous bokh who was featured in the photos (brown robed guy?) when Hakuhō went back to Mongolia to promote his danpatsu)

On 27/01/2023 at 23:11, rokudenashi said:

Mönkh-idere (?) - Tottori Jōhoku alum, currently studying at Dōshisha University and a member of their sumō club

Couple of threads from the university sports publication's Twitter account listing him in tournament results - from what I can tell, Demidejamts is their top wrestler

Hakuho apparently reserves the foreigner's spot for 193cm tall Demidjants, who is now 4th year and should soon start the kenshu period at the heya. The nephew is 3rd year and in Japan since middle school, seems he'll get the 10 years in Japan in time to join with a Japanese shusshin, to follow the path of Hokuseiho and join the heya of his uncle  - definitely Miyagino-beya becomes Mongol-beya, like expected in the tabloids. Some oyakata is cited for those 2 and he tells that Hakuho also tries to get Nakamura - other heya frown upon this prospect of Miyagino dominance.

Edited January 31, 2023 by Akinomaki

[WAKATAKE 2,613]

8 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Some oyakata is cited for those 2 and he tells that Hakuho also tries to get Nakamura - other heya frown upon this prospect of Miyagino dominance.

I'm taking a class on management right now. Reminds me of management incompetence, inflexibility, lack of data analysis just to name a few. But we've known this for a long time. How about adapting to new ways to build up stronger wrestlers to combat the incoming Miyagino dynasty?

[rhyen 1,798]

https://www.facebook.com/100044636730161/posts/pfbid0fdRspkTHmZiLBzA7gEWf7EWFZ1PovR4ahMr8BWj2JgJEnhv91zpTQKDLxjkumCHsl/

he even got the HU to perform for his banquet afterwards. 

[rhyen 1,798]

23 minutes ago, WAKATAKE said:

I'm taking a class on management right now. Reminds me of management incompetence, inflexibility, lack of data analysis just to name a few. But we've known this for a long time. How about adapting to new ways to build up stronger wrestlers to combat the incoming Miyagino dynasty?

Find the 2nd tier and train them well -> Isegahama. 

[rhyen 1,798]

https://fb.watch/isGzjY2PN2/

[rhyen 1,798]

On 29/01/2023 at 09:22, Kishinoyama said:

Someone posted a video on YT of the last 30 minutes of the hair cutting ceremony. The children have really grown! The youngest daughter did real well on her speech.

It was great to see ex-Takamiyama take a turn with the scissors. In another YT video, ex-Daikiho was just crying his heart out.  

The two eldest daughters will tower over their mother.

[rhyen 1,798]

On 29/01/2023 at 20:03, Akinomaki said:

The TV Tokyo tribute and digest "Thank you Hakuho", Hakuho (and family) live on the program https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1G3411975Z/

(to get Bilibili in HD you have to register and use yt-dlp with youtube-dl, with the --cookies option and the cookies.txt add-on for Firefox: yt-dlp  --cookies cookies.txt https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1G3411975Z/  - I'll post a longer explanation later on the tips and tools thread)

Anyone interested in transcribing Hakuho’s commentary from the show?

[rhyen 1,798]

 

[Akinomaki 39,497]

Videos getting added all the time to the channels I already posted, the Sumo Channel still has no playlist for Hakuho, but the most detailed coverage, including all torikumi and dohyo-iri

Today someone posted a 98min digest video of the whole event

[rhyen 1,798]

Ryuo’s behind the scenes video (and the after party performances)

 

[hakutorizakura 581]

Man wouldn't you wonder what they say to the retiree after the snip (well the short ones are just standard omedetou etc probably). I almost cried when it's Harumafuji. 

[sumojoann 1,254]

On 07/02/2023 at 11:22, hakutorizakura said:

Man wouldn't you wonder what they say to the retiree after the snip (well the short ones are just standard omedetou etc probably). I almost cried when it's Harumafuji. 

Here is an article in the Asahi Shimbun dated Jan 29, 2023 that quoted Harumafuji as whispering to Hakuho after he snipped, "I am proud to have fought on the same dohyo as you."  It was at that point that Hakuho could not hold back his tears.  At the time, I didn't know what Harumafuji had said.  I just knew that I couldn't hold back my tears, either.

The article goes on to say that later, after the ceremony was finished, Hakuho was quoted as saying, "While I feel refreshed, I am also sad because it feels as though a part of my body is gone." 

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14826302

Edited February 8, 2023 by sumojoann

[hakutorizakura 581]

21 minutes ago, sumojoann said:

Here is an article in the Asahi Shimbun dated Jan 29, 2023 that quoted Harumafuji as whispering to Hakuho after he snipped, "I am proud to have fought on the same dohyo as you."  It was at that point that Hakuho could not hold back his tears.  At the time, I didn't know what Harumafuji had said.  I just knew that I couldn't hold back my tears, either.

The article goes on to say that later, after the ceremony was finished, Hakuho was quoted as saying, "While I feel refreshed, I am also sad because it feels as though a part of my body is gone." 

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14826302

That's awesome, thank you! *starts crying again*

BTW, I haven't seen his photo with the new haircut anywhere, probably I just missed it?

[sumojoann 1,254]

There's a good one on page 18 of this thread by Kinta.  Dated 1-28, several photos of Hakuho, the first one being Hakuho crying.  Scroll down til you see the pic of Hakuho's wife adjusting his tie.  This is towards the bottom of page 18.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2023 by sumojoann

[Akinomaki 39,497]

Check the pics here

the repeated standard pic from Hochi

o

Edited February 9, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 4,068]

6 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

the repeated standard pic from Hochi

He actually looks very good here, and somewhat reminiscent of those old photos of celebrities from the 60s. If the photo was made black and white and a bit grainy, it could even pass for something from that era.

[Akinomaki 39,497]

I was an event to make big money - a commemorative daruma was on sale for about 5 million, 1 million yen was the minimum expected for a cut

with more pics: http://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2023/02111057/?all=1

Kisenosato had about the same number of cutters, Hakuho had exactly 283, but only about 900 at the party, both parts were about thrice as expensive for the Hakuho event.

On 07/10/2019 at 13:23, Akinomaki said:

The weekly taishu tabloid estimates that Araiso earned a profit of around 150 million yen with his danpatsu-shiki event. The kokugikan was packed with about 11 000 spectators - that should have been enough to pay for all events of the day. The party was at the Prince Hotel Shintakanawa. with admission fee of 30 000 yen - and over 1500 attended = 45 million. To have a cut, a congratulatory gift of at least 300 000yen had been asked for. A bit over 280 had one (about 300 were reported), so we have 100 million for sure - many of the really rich tanimachi surely gave a much bigger sum.

Edited February 11, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,497]

Not only the Hakuho cup today, Hakuho was on NTV's Sunday push sports (not live) with a close to 1 hour (CMs all the time included) special about the danpatsushiki and the month before, showing the menu at the party and the present everyone there received. It may be difficult to find a full video of this, that program is seldom available. Short clips from NTV:

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

and then he was on gyoretsu dekiru sodanjo 行列のできる相談所 on the same channel, together with his wife, recorded the day after the danpatsushiki, like apparently also the other program, with videos from the month before as well https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i7wqn

Proper VOD: https://tver.jp/episodes/epsqd12vui

Edited February 12, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,497]

19 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

on gyoretsu dekiru sodanjo 行列のできる相談所 on the same channel, together with his wife, recorded the day after the danpatsushiki

Hakuho about his new hairstyle: "James Bond, isn't it. Daniel-san" o

and he thinks it makes him 5 years younger

Edited February 13, 2023 by Akinomaki

[RabidJohn 1,628]

6 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

and he thinks it makes him 5 years younger

He must be gutted how much younger moto-Shohozan's haircut made him look then.

Edit: What a post to get my ozeki promotion with...

Edited February 13, 2023 by RabidJohn

[Yamanashi 3,671]

2 hours ago, RabidJohn said:

Edit: What a post to get my ozeki promotion with...

Congrats, and well deserved.  Also, don't feel like you have some hinkaku to preserve now that you're an Ozeki.  On SumoForum, even a Shodai-like performance sustained long enough will make you a Yokozuna.

[Katooshu 3,079]

Now that you've made ozeki, you can look forward to constantly hearing about how mediocre you are 

[sumojoann 1,254]

1 hour ago, Yamanashi said:

Congrats, and well deserved.  Also, don't feel like you have some hinkaku to preserve now that you're an Ozeki.  On SumoForum, even a Shodai-like performance sustained long enough will make you a Yokozuna.

I can attest to that.  I keep getting promoted for no reason other than my many mediocre posts.  Not that you were promoted for the same reason, RabidJohn!  Congratulations!!