Links to pics and stuff from Korean Jungyo

[Kintamayama]

As posted by Thierry Perran on the ML:

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/photo/photo.jsp?news=0&word=SPT

And more:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getsp....s20040215a1.htm

Edited February 15, 2004 by Kintamayama

[Kintamayama]

[Kintamayama]

Kasugaou manhandled by kids:

[Asashosakari]

Kasugaou manhandled by kids

I see he's picking up right where he left off in Hatsu basho... (Laughing...)

Edited February 15, 2004 by Asashosakari

[Yoavoshimaru]

Do the Kasugao kanji really call for the ou at the end when translated to English (Kasugau or Kasugaou)?

[Kaikitsune Makoto]

Kasugao said "I am sure I can be yokozuna with Asashoryu! I am training all days long starting from 7am and I am also doing training in the evenings with my spare time!". Maybe he was worked up being in Korea and delivered these high goals enthusiastically to fire up the country :-)

But still, he has tools! Korean made tools! Made in Korea! Hip! Defense! Body!

Go Kasu! Show the world. Show the world. Makuuchi soon! Then the sky is the limit.

I see he's picking up right where he left off in Hatsu basho

See what they recite!!! In few years these bytes will be virtually fed to Asashosakari-zeki (Laughing...) (Laughing...) :-D

[Kintamayama]

Do the Kasugao kanji really call for the ou at the end when translated to English (Kasugau or Kasugaou)?

My u's are always useful. I go to great pains to write the rikishi names as they should be written , in my mind, and as the hiragana is.

I am quasi-modual.

[Kintamayama]

Sakari gong round and round at a Seoul amusement park on the day off before the flight to Pusan.

[Fujisan]

Quote time-

Takamisakari-"Excuse me sir,can you tell me where the brake is for this thing?"

Great photo!

[Kintamayama]

Another Sakari Merry go-round:

[Naganoyama]

Another Sakari Merry go-round:

I can't see any spectacles. Is he afraid of noticing which horse he is fighting?

[Kintamayama]

I can't see any spectacles.  Is he afraid of noticing which horse he is fighting?

Or, he may just be afraid of making a spectacle of himself.

Edited February 17, 2004 by Kintamayama

[Fujisan]

Another quote-

"Can you tell me if this is the right bus for the Kokugikan."

[Chinonofuji]

Kasugao said "I am sure I can be yokozuna with Asashoryu! I am training all days long starting from 7am and I am also doing training in the evenings with my spare time!". Maybe he was worked up being in Korea and delivered these high goals enthusiastically to fire up the country (Sigh...)

But still, he has tools! Korean made tools! Made in Korea! Hip! Defense! Body!

From the Chosun Ilbo, a short interview with Kasugao:

Kim Sung-tak:'Tomorrow, yokozuna'

"Next year, I'll move up to ozeki. And the year after that, yokozuna."

Korean sumo wrestler Kim Sung-tak (known in Japan as Kasugao) is much more imposing now than he was when he visited Korea last December. Kim came to Korea on Monday to take part in the "Grand Sumo Korea Tournament," which will commence Friday in Seoul and Pusan. As soon as we met him, he told us to feel his body, and he thrust out one of his forearms. Surprising as it was, his arm was solid as a rock, and we could get a real sense of just how hard he has been training.

"People often think that sumo wrestlers only put on fat, but that's never the case. Have you ever felt muscles like this?"

Kim entered the Maku-uchi division of sumo (the sport's highest level) in 2002, and was a sudden storm in the ring. A thigh injury last January, however, has forced him into a slump.

Having conquered the amateur ssirum world in his junior year of university by winning the Presidential Ssirum Tournament in 1998, Kim ignored the sharp looks of those around him by going to Japan to become a sumo wrestler. The first year of sumo training is so tough that it makes you stay up all night crying. Originally, he was excluded from this coming tournament in Korea because of rules saying that only those in the Maku-uchi division may participate. After many twists and turns, he was finally allowed in. For that reason, Kim feels that he must put on a proper display for the Korean fans.

"After the January tournament ended, I've been getting up at five in the morning with the trainees and working out, and I train even during my evening free time. I'm confident that I can join [Mongolia-born sumo champion] Asashoryu as yokozuna."