Unknow rikishi

[Tony 16]

Do you know these rikishi? ( except yokozuna who are Futabayama and Akinoumi )

http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fwiy3670/sumo_gallery.htm

[Kotoseiya Yuichi 3]

Do you know these rikishi? ( except yokozuna who are Futabayama and Akinoumi )

My guesses:

Azumafuji, Futabayama, Akinoumi

Tokachiiwa, Terunobori, Hirosegawa

Three on the top row were yokozuna, Tokachiiwa M1, Terunobori sekiwake and Hirosegawa M3.

[Tony 16]

Thank you Kotoseiya Yuichi!

For Azumafuji, I understood but for the three others, how do you know? It's impressive.

I don't think that I would have an answer so quicly!

[Kotoseiya Yuichi 3]

How do you know?

Well, I could claim I know Japanese but I don't. ;-)

First I pasted the page to Babelfish. The resulting page is only partially translated as can be expected but even those parts are often enough if you have Yubiquitoyama-zeki's excellent Excel file listing all-time makuuchi rikishi.

Yokozuna were easy to guess. "Tokachi rock Yutaka" must mean Tokachiiwa as there was only one hit with "Tokachi". "Hirose river" was easy as well. The gawa kanji is easy to spot and very common on rikishi and heya names. "Shine ascent Katuhiko sekiwake" was the hardest but as I knew Katuhiko is more commonly written as Katsuhiko, only Terunobori made sense rank- and agewise.

That doesn't mean I might be wrong about some of them, though... (Looks around...)

[Tony 16]

Do you know these rikishi?

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/l...ChikaraMizu.jpg

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/l...es/Danpatsu.jpg

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/l...res/Respite.jpg

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lmartres/Shio.jpg

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/l...res/Tachiai.jpg

[Kotoseiya Yuichi 3]

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/l...res/Tachiai.jpg

He's Takamiyama Daigoro, isn't he?

Since all these pictures are (I believe) from late Seventies, I personally don't recognize any of the rikishi and there are no details (kesho-mawashi etc.) to give any clues. Either someone knows them by appearance or not.

[Yubiquitoyama 4]

Do you know these rikishi?

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lmartres/Shio.jpg

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/l...res/Tachiai.jpg

Well, it isn't actually easy. I'm positive on the salt-thrower who is ex-Komusubi Aobayama of Kise-beya, who was ranked 31 basho in Makunouchi between 1975.11 and 1981.11 (retired 1982.11). He was one in the row of "huge amounts of salt"-throwers through the history of Ozumo, and also has a very distinct appearance (hard to mistake for anyone else...).

I will also hazard a guess on the tachiai-rikishi. I believe it's Arase, who is one of quite few who sported that kind of side-burns in the late seventies. He was a college-rikishi who entered Ozumo in 1972.01 and was a perennial sanyaku-rikishi during his Makunouchi career 1973.07 to 1981.05, including 9 times Sekiwake 5 times Komusubi and a total of 4 sansho prizes.

The other ones are a bit hard for me to take a guess on, and I leave someone else to take up that challenge ;-)

EDIT: I doubt strongly anyone will actually read this part of the message (since I edited it in more than two months after the fact...) but I will now also say that I think the resting rikishi is in fact Kaneshiro.

[Tony 16]

I don't think that "rikishi tachi-ai" is Takamiyama. He's taller than this rikishi.

[Yubiquitoyama 4]

I don't think that "rikishi tachi-ai" is Takamiyama. He's taller than this rikishi.

You are right, it's definitely not Takamiyama.