Akinomaki 41,182 Posted May 31, 2024 (edited) I think it deserves a thread of its own - official opening was yesterday On 18/10/2023 at 13:01, Akinomaki said: The success led to a copy in Osaka: THE SUMO HALL HIRAKUZA OSAKA will open next summer, a hall only for sumo shows going on in English, while eating. Business area Osaka: thus a much larger scale: two 1h evening shows a day, seats for 180 like at a basho: S seats for 16 000 Yen, A for 12500/kids from 3-12y 9000 Yen, B 9500/7000 Yen, a Japanese style bento and one drink attached - other food at extra price. https://www.hirakuza.net/sumohall/ Run by Hanshin contents link, a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. - they produced quite some PR material https://hcl-c.com/sites/default/files/upload_files/all_users/conference/event_sales/the_sumo_hall_hirakuza_osaka1003.pdf http://www.daily.co.jp/leisure/kansai/2023/10/15/0016920410.shtml Sanctuary live Interesting to see which ex-rikishi will perform there http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/kansai/news/20231004-OYO1T50044/ http://namba.keizai.biz/headline/5229/ o o the same presenter as in the PR material, together with another rakugo story-teller from the mainly Kansai based Katsura group (teigo) of rakugo myoseki, but with 4 different ex-rikishi - Toma, Itadaki, Irodori (Matsu) and Kirinowaka (Waka) - no idea if the gyoji is an ex-one as well On 27/05/2024 at 23:16, Akinomaki said: THE SUMO HALL HIRAKUZA OSAKA had a VIP private viewing today - with Osaka-fu local Ura as guest o oo o o o o o o 2 parts of the show - 1st Spirit of Sumo - imagined from 1500 years ago o o o o oo o o o o o o o till a tournament of the 4 performers oo 2nd part The Sumo Entertainment - with sumo experience o o o o More pics - Itadaki is one of the performers http://www.sanspo.com/article/20240527-H2B7BP2QEVLLNDMKY5IBD2UABQ/ On 28/05/2024 at 23:27, Akinomaki said: Kirinowaka - presented in the news clip as Waka, Irodori as Matsu More o o o o o o vid o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o oo o o o o o o Edited February 13 by Akinomaki 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,182 Posted May 31, 2024 PR from the official channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddt0sWUMAHI Main presenter Katsura Fukuryu is on the general Hirakuza channel, which also has videos from Sumo Hirakuza https://www.youtube.com/@JAPANHIRAKUZA/videos more detailed videos of the show - Itadaki is Kiku, Toma is of course Toma - one article says that sumo actor Tooyama also performs there o 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,182 Posted June 10, 2024 (edited) A report from the preparations and the opening - focus on Toma, GB - giant baby as nickname now. He was scouted by Tooyama for the show and came from Okinawa to live at the dormitory there. Idadaki is chanko-cho. He had to quit Miyagino due to diabetes and a herniated disk and worked at the restaurant of his parents after intai, teaching sumo to local kids. On 01/06/2024 at 00:02, Akinomaki said: one article says that sumo actor Tooyama also performs there o ex-Tooyama (Tashiro) is the one who provides the rikishi with his sumo (actors) agency - he was in the PR video On 29/04/2024 at 11:37, Akinomaki said: the sumo (actors) agency sumo-agency.com/en/ / Openbox inc., run by ex-Tooyama http://sumo-agency.com/jp/cast/ (Tochinoshin is in his cast as well) o Edited June 10, 2024 by Akinomaki 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,182 Posted June 10, 2024 3 hours ago, Akinomaki said: On 01/06/2024 at 00:02, Akinomaki said: one article says that sumo actor Tooyama also performs there o ex-Tooyama (Tashiro) is the one who provides the rikishi with his sumo (actors) agency Tooyama is listed as Tashi among the cast for the show, also a female Katsura rakugoka is a member, but the gyoji are not listed http://hirakuza.net/sumohall/cast/ Originally Chiyonokuni's brother Chiyonoshin was planned as a member http://hirakuza.net/sumohall/news/20240327139/ In his place, now Itadaki has the job. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,182 Posted October 24, 2024 (edited) For the event on the 23rd of reaching 10 000 visitors, THE SUMO HALL HIRAKUZA OSAKA had Tochinoshin as guest o o Press release in English https://hcl-c.com/news-new-release/upfile/20241024_HIRAKUZA-news_e.pdf Edited October 24, 2024 by Akinomaki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,182 Posted December 13, 2024 Not only ozumo has kaigai koen - overseas basho, like London next year: THE SUMO HALL HIRAKUZA OSAKA had an India koen, on Nov. 15th and 16th at the Shillong Cherry Blossom Festival 2024 https://www.asiancommunitynews.com/sumo-wrestlers-to-add-excitement-to-the-cherry-blossom-festival-at-japan-arena/ https://hirakuza.net/news/20241211600/ https://hcl-c.com/news-new-release/upfile/20241211_HIRAKUZA-news_e.pdf o the 2 who went there are not part of the regular staff, but of course from the sumo-agency.com/jp/cast/ Recently retired Otani and amateur rikishi Soma o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GROAnIpHG7A Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,182 Posted February 13 I changed the thread to all sumo event facilities like it - the initial one was Yokozuna Tonkatsu On 04/09/2023 at 13:26, Akinomaki said: His restaurant Yokozuna Tonkatsu - Dosukoi Tanaka in Sumida ward with dohyo is in the news for months - with plenty of videos from foreigners doing sumo on it with ex-rikishi, esp. Jokoryu with also proper sumo demonstration The owner is former juryo for one basho Kaito - he opened it last November, to help others rikishi with their 2nd careers, with which he experienced troubles at first as well http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20230903-OYT1T50079/ The next to open in Tokyo was the Asakusa sumo-beya/-club, for over a year now I have that on my list to post in sumo draught times, but there are none recently. (There are also dozens of articles for the regular food business thread on my list, maybe several are gone from the net by now). They opened on Jan 19th last year, in the Asakusa Rockza building (too indecent to link that here), 8 min away from Tsukuba Express Asakusa station a proper dohyo with the right soil like in a real heya, 3 shows a day http://www.kyodo.co.jp/life/2024-01-18_3832526/ http://www.rbbtoday.com/article/2024/01/15/215974.html http://news.mynavi.jp/article/20240126-2870661/ http://asakusa-sumo.com/ Now they'll open 2nd facility, on Feb. 20th, 2 min. away from Tsukuba Express Asakusa station: Asakusa sumo-beya/-club ANNEX, 4 shows a day http://asakusasumo-annex.com/ https://monolab.tokyo/articles/1165 - no names for the staff listed, nor by which ex-rikishi/originating from which heya is the chanko - but Asahisho and Kyokutaisei kesho mawashi, so apparently Oshima-beya Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 41,182 Posted February 13 Another in the Osaka area is the Ochiizumi-beya https://www.ochiizumi.com/, produced by Konishiki. It opened May 3rd last year in Izumisano city, Osaka. http://www.rbbtoday.com/article/2024/05/08/219772.html o o o o o Joyuriki is one in the show 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
