The tuna

[Kintamayama 45,530]

A 276 kilo Bluefish tuna caught yesterday fetched 207 million yen at an auction at the Toyosu market, won by the Onodera group. Upon hearing that, Yokozuna Terunofuji rushed to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Omotesando to taste some of it. "It brings good luck.." he said. The fish was so large the workers couldn't get it into the kitchen, so Terunofuji took off his hakama and helped them get it in, shouting "yoisho" as if it was part of the Yokozuna dohyo-iri.. "The maguro was delicious so that was good. I felt I would be battling in the Hatsu basho," he said.

 

Edited January 6 by Kintamayama

[Kintamayama 45,530]

Oonosato also got to taste some of that tuna. "It was delicious," he said, smacking his lips and smiling, most probably, "I want to prepare well and do my best so that I can start the new year in a good way." He plans to further increase the pace of his preparations from the YDC soken tomorrow. He has been training doing fundamentals and did some sumo yesterday with Juryo Shirokuma and Hananoumi so far.

 

Edited January 5 by Kintamayama

[Akinomaki 40,802]

On 05/01/2025 at 18:10, Kintamayama said:

Oonosato also got to taste some of that tuna. "It was delicious," he said, smacking his lips and smiling, most probably,

As usual, the tuna was provided by Nishonoseki-beya main sponsor AI koumuten, last year 120kg

On 06/01/2024 at 13:14, Akinomaki said:

Nishonoseki-beya main sponsor AI komuten on the 5th held an AI Thanksgiving event for the heya at the heya, with a 120kg tuna from the year-opening tuna auction at the Toyosu market (Tsukiji is long gone) earlier that day (the biggest fish of 238kg netted 114.24 million yen there - 4th highest price at this event since 1999

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with sushi prepared by the chef of Michelin 3 star restaurant Sushi Gyoten hitosara.com/0006070632/person.html

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this year one of 126kg, an ooma tuna from Aomori https://oma-wide.net/oomatuna/

(the reading Oma's tuna looks quite funny in German)

On 08/01/2024 at 12:31, Akinomaki said:

For the start of keiko at the Nishonoseki-beya Kyushu premises today (for local kids), AI komuten provided another sushi event with maguro from the year-opening tuna auction and prepared by the chef of Michelin 3 star restaurant Sushi Gyoten

this time the chef of the Yokohama sushi restaurant Nakajo prepared the sushi, 10 minutes to cut the 126kg fish into pieces, as guest in the heya the governor of Ibaraki

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On 05/01/2025 at 17:46, Kintamayama said:

A 276 kilo Bluefish tuna caught yesterday fetched 207 million yen at an auction at the Toyosu market

That 2nd most expensive ever was split into about 6000 pieces of sushi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuX1wxV7wYc

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Terunofuji helped to carry the yokozuna class fish (tuna is tsuna in Japanese) - he said he thought of it as training

 

Edited January 10 by Akinomaki

[Gurowake 4,109]

I suppose bluefin tuna doesn't normally fetch 750,000 yen per kg.  Does the restaurant actually intend to recover its cost, or is this a publicity stunt?  If there were 6,000 pieces of sushi made, that's 34,500 yen per piece, though perhaps the stuff not used for sushi would also fetch something, though probably not much.  I can't imagine spending hundreds of dollars on a single piece of sushi.

[Kintamayama 45,530]

A special tsuna fish sandwich was prepared for Kotozakura and will be delivered to him if and when, or so I heard.

[Bunbukuchagama 772]

5 hours ago, Gurowake said:

Does the restaurant actually intend to recover its cost, or is this a publicity stunt? 

It is a matter of prestige. It's impossible to recover the cost of such a fish.

[Akinomaki 40,802]

On 05/01/2025 at 20:05, Akinomaki said:

this time the chef of the Yokohama sushi restaurant Nakajo prepared the sushi, 10 minutes to cut the 126kg fish into pieces, as guest in the heya the governor of Ibaraki

Ibaraki shimbun posted a video from the event for the locals, the town mayor of course was also there

 

21 hours ago, Gurowake said:

I suppose bluefin tuna doesn't normally fetch 750,000 yen per kg.  Does the restaurant actually intend to recover its cost, or is this a publicity stunt?  If there were 6,000 pieces of sushi made, that's 34,500 yen per piece, though perhaps the stuff not used for sushi would also fetch something, though probably not much.  I can't imagine spending hundreds of dollars on a single piece of sushi.

2 different pieces to compare were sold for 1160 Yen, one should have been sold for 30 000 Yen as regular price, it's a New Year event like many (hatsu- ... : swimming, keiko, ... ), for good luck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQrX9iOFKQ

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Edited January 6 by Akinomaki

[RabidJohn 1,855]

9 hours ago, Gurowake said:

I suppose bluefin tuna doesn't normally fetch 750,000 yen per kg. 

They're auctioned so the price varies according to supply/demand, but a properly bled and flushed Atlantic bluefin carcass is always worth a small fortune at the Tokyo fish market.

This '1st catch of the year' thing is a bit like the Beaujolais Nouveau race; more a matter of prestige than economics.

[dingo 1,294]

On 06/01/2025 at 07:43, Kintamayama said:

A special tsuna fish sandwich was prepared for Kotozakura and will be delivered to him if and when, or so I heard.

He will have to eat it together with 15 pieces of katsu-sando.

[Akinomaki 40,802]

The tuna is still all over the news in Japan, several news clips show Terunofuji helping and eating at the restaurant: "Heavy, I'd say" - Jjii news

ANN had removed one version, but reposted it (TF at 11s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMje_929j_E

NiTele with focus on the "legend" fisherman who caught the tuna (TF at 4:04m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzGbDA-grro

 

And local TV reported on the tsuna at Nishonoseki-beya

Fukushima TV on Shirokuma eating it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBX-F-Kpi5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93S9MJzMU0w

Kanazawa TV on Onosato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNYXK4CDy4Y

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