Nishonoseki (Kisenosato) activities

[Akinomaki 35,671]

Since Otokonoyama had taken over my thread, I cannot change the title anymore, so I post a new one

On 11/09/2020 at 14:27, Akinomaki said:

Araiso gets his own weekly radio program, on Mondays 19-19:15h JST, except during the basho. Start on October 5th, at the Nagoya based station Tokai Radio www.tokairadio.co.jp: "Araiso-oyakata yokozuna life-way 人生道"

With a corner "Ask Araiso-oyakata" and presenting his favorite "yokozuna-life cheering songs" from his active day.

The new episode that appeared on the net today announced the name change also of the program (and the channel)

He used words like for Y/O promotion: "Not defiling the name of Nishonoseki, properly devoting myself, properly preserving tradition .."

He got the Araiso kabu already at age 19, at the moment he sees it just as a name change, he can't tell about the future.

Edited December 27, 2021 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 35,671]

Nishonoseki told recently on radio that construction for the proper new, now from the start Nishonoseki-beya, is planned to be complete end of May, at least for the Aki basho the heya will do the preparations there. The temporary heya is at a Tsukuba university location. o

At the construction site mid December in Ami town, Arakawa-Hongo, adjacent to Ushiku, his hometown: o

Edited June 19, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 35,671]

New year at the heya

Keiko started, a pic with the not genki former Nishonoseki (and okamisan)

[Akinomaki 35,671]

On 03/01/2022 at 17:32, Akinomaki said:

Nishonoseki told recently on radio that construction for the proper new, now from the start Nishonoseki-beya, is planned to be complete end of May, at least for the Aki basho the heya will do the preparations there. The temporal heya is at a Tsukuba university location. o

At the construction site mid December in Ami town, Arakawa-Hongo, adjacent to Ushiku, his hometown: o

The temporary heya is at Tsukuba university, the proper one is a 10 minutes walk away from JR Hitachino-Ushiku station (elsewhere it's said 5 minutes), with 2 dohyo under construction. Construction is going on and Ami town wants to use it as PR to become a sumo town, Nishonoseki cooperates of course. The town made an advisory contract with Kazuki Maeda (Daikamikaze), heya manager since February, and has 5.84 million yen in the budget this year for the cooperation, with members of each town department working out plans for the cooperation: trips to the heya as a sightseeing spot etc. The town has a "Nishonoseki's heya" corner on their site https://www.town.ami.lg.jp/promotion/category/12-5-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

The official homepage of the heya has a 3rd heya address as part of Ushiku city, in Hitachino-Higashi, just next to Arakawa Hongo

http://ibarakinews.jp/news/newsdetail.php?f_jun=16488945521753

Edited April 3, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Yamanashi 3,055]

1 hour ago, Akinomaki said:

The temporal heya is at Tsukuba university, the proper one is a 10 minutes walk away from JR Hitachino-Ushiku station

You might mean "temporary".  I was jarred by the first sentence, as it suggests that this heya is merely "of the world" (temporal), while his real heya is in heaven ... no, wait, it's near Ushiku.  I know that his fans really, really like him, but maybe that's a little too much.

[Akinomaki 35,671]

30 minutes ago, Yamanashi said:

You might mean "temporary".  I was jarred by the first sentence, as it suggests that this heya is merely "of the world" (temporal), while his real heya is in heaven ... no, wait, it's near Ushiku.  I know that his fans really, really like him, but maybe that's a little too much.

I'm losing my language abilities, get careless - that can happen when you turn my age

The town publication for March on the heya already lists the 4 new recruits and a new tokoyama, the heya page not yet

https://www.town.ami.lg.jp/promotion/cmsfiles/contents/0000009/9624/tokushuukiji.pdf

https://nishonosekibeya.com/introduction/#wrestler

Edit: the tokoyoma is fittingly 床二, Ni from Nishonoseki, not yet on the NSK page, so the reading may not be Tokoni

Edited April 3, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Yaochozuna 123]

On 03/04/2022 at 15:51, Akinomaki said:

Edit: the tokoyoma is fittingly 床二, Ni from Nishonoseki, not yet on the NSK page, so the reading may not be Tokoni

"We're the hairdressers who say 'Ni!'"

[Akinomaki 35,671]

On 03/04/2022 at 14:18, Akinomaki said:

Construction is going on and Ami town wants to use it as PR to become a sumo town, Nishonoseki cooperates of course. The town made an advisory contract with Kazuki Maeda (Daikamikaze), heya manager since February, and has 5.84 million yen in the budget this year for the cooperation, with members of each town department working out plans for the cooperation: trips to the heya as a sightseeing spot etc. The town has a "Nishonoseki's heya" corner on their site https://www.town.ami.lg.jp/promotion/category/12-5-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

Ami town made Nishonoseki PR ambassador for the town, appointed for 5 years

ovid

vid

o

Edited April 7, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 3,545]

Well, it's certainly working; considering Nishonoseki-beya is almost guaranteed to be up by the time Japan allows tourists back in, it's definitely going to be on my to-visit list when I can go to Japan again.

[Akinomaki 35,671]

19 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Ami town made Nishonoseki PR ambassador for the town, appointed for 5 years

The short address Nishonoseki gave at the town assembly

from the channel of this assembly member, who publishes the town assembly information, recent one about the heya: https://amishinbun.jimdofree.com/app/download/13963304188/海野隆議会報告A4版20220321.pdf?t=1647945637

Gambare Nishonoseki-beya - welcome to Ami town

Edited April 8, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 35,671]

Nishonoseki on the 16th in Yachiyo was appointed cheerleader of the PR project for the keisui nashi pear, Ibaraki local produce. A PR video was recorded, to be published on the net. http://ibarakinews.jp/news/newsdetail.php?f_jun=16553854963096

https://www.ibaraki-shokusai.net/season/keisui_pj/

o

Edited June 17, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 35,671]

Nishonoseki with Nakamura had a talk-show in Ami town yesterday, talking about the support by the citizens of Ibaraki that made him reach yokozuna, showing pictures from inside the heya etc. There was space for 250 people in the venue, about 15 times as many had applied for those places. https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2022/06/19/kiji/20220619s00005000114000c.html

o o

Poster: https://www.town.ami.lg.jp/promotion/cmsfiles/contents/0000009/9624/kouen.pdf

o

Edited June 21, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 35,671]

On 17/06/2022 at 14:42, Akinomaki said:

Nishonoseki on the 16th in Yachiyo was appointed cheerleader of the PR project for the keisui nashi pear, Ibaraki local produce. A PR video was recorded, to be published on the net

Nishonoseki for the keisui PR project

[Seiyashi 3,545]

Nishonoseki also seems to be building a sideline as a sumo commentator; he had a guest appearance on a sumo program before the basho, and now he was invited to contribute a piece to Sponichi:

Nishonoseki's column in Sponichi for the Nagoya basho as a regular invited contributor (see Akinomaki's clarification below):

Not sure whether this is a one-off or going to be a regular column.

Edited July 13, 2022 by Seiyashi

[Akinomaki 35,671]

1 hour ago, Seiyashi said:

Nishonoseki also seems to be building a sideline as a sumo commentator; he had a guest appearance on a sumo program before the basho, and now he was invited to contribute a piece to Sponichi:

Not sure whether this is a one-off or going to be a regular column.

He's doing it for a long time now

On 20/02/2019 at 17:36, Akinomaki said:

Araiso-oyakata from the Haru-basho on will start as sports commentator for the Sponichi paper, joining Tamanoi-oyakata.

At a visit to the Sponichi headquarters today, ex-Kise declared that he plans to adopt American football NFL training methods to rear his (future) deshi. His plans for after the danpatsu-shiki end of September: "The NFL uses the latest training methods. I'd like to go to learn." "Sumo builds the body with keiko, but the built of the Japanese has become like the people from overseas, so we should be able to use these methods in sumo as well."

He's feeling good: "My condition is terrific. With the stress having disappeared, my body feels light."

o o

Edited July 13, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 3,545]

12 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

On 21/02/2019 at 00:36, Akinomaki said:

Araiso-oyakata from the Haru-basho on will start as sports commentator for the Sponichi paper, joining Tamanoi-oyakata.

Thanks. Should have checked the old Araiso-oyakata thread...

[Akinomaki 35,671]

Nishonoseki is really fond of talk shows: he had another on the 2nd in Naka, Ibaraki, in front of about 250 people. To questions he told that while active he ate 100 plates at the kaiten sushi with ease and that he did 40 minutes of stretching each morning to prevent injuries (apparently that was not enough).  http://ibarakinews.jp/news/newsdetail.php?f_jun=16599575045727

Edited August 9, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 3,545]

5 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

To questions he told that he ate 100 plates at the kaiten sushi with ease and that he did 40 minutes of stretching each morning to prevent injuries (apparently that was not enough)

Wow. I hope that's while he was active (because of the reference to stretching).

[Akinomaki 35,671]

Just now, Seiyashi said:

Wow. I hope that's while he was active (because of the reference to stretching).

Both eating and stretching while he was active - those questions are always about the active time for at least the first 10 years as oyakata

[rhyen 1,622]

https://www.nhk.jp/p/a-holiday/ts/M29X69KZ1G/episode/te/RK41Y6ZX1Y/?fbclid=IwAR3yTQF83TftwageJeB1Vyqt3nTPw5K0ZKb8S8SFlMfYTwUE5euS9tLNduI&fs=e&s=cl

[dingo 690]

Until his fateful injury the stretching seemed to work though -- iirc Kisenosato was almost never injured. 

[Katooshu 2,476]

That was the painful irony of it. He was an ironman and always resistant to injury, then his very first yokozuna tournament he suffers a debilitating one.

At least he still got a yokozuna yusho though. That basho was quite something, all that drama near the end with the injury, the Teru henka, and the Kise comeback on day 15.

Edited August 10, 2022 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 35,671]

Nishonoseki invited 6 students from Todai to the heya for a sumo experience stay - only to watch keiko. Most of them never visited a sumo-beya before. It was part of a project at Todai to have students widen their field of vision -  this event likely was inspired by Suyama joining the sumo world.

o o oo o o o

local NHK

vid vid

Edited August 13, 2022 by Akinomaki

[dingo 690]

Only guys though. Wonder if no female students expressed interest?

[junsan 96]

Someone ought to have a chat with Nishonoseki's barber. The Kim Jong Un cut isn't exactly in vogue these days.

Edited August 12, 2022 by junsan
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