Sumo obituaries

[Akinomaki]

more from the 36th Kimura Shonosuke

NHK Kagoshima news clip

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final basho Natsu 2013

Hakuho-Kisenosato

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yomiage of the final bout Hakuho-Harumafuji at his retirement party

2014

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Edited November 25, 2022 by Akinomaki

[WAKATAKE]

Kind of eerie because the deceased Ushiomaru is also in that picture :(

[Kintamayama]

Ex-Toyonoumi has passed away due to illness at the age of 57. (A year and a half ago..)

Edited February 5, 2023 by Kintamayama

[ryafuji]

12 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

Ex-Toyonoumi has passed away due to illness at the age of 57.

Happened a while back - November 2021. 

[Kintamayama]

5 hours ago, ryafuji said:

Happened a while back - November 2021. 

Oh..Sorry about that

[Akinomaki]

The 27th Kimura Shonosuke, Sokichi Kumagai has passed away at the age of 97 on the 22nd due to old age infirmity, the funeral took place with near relatives only. Debut Haru 1936, Natsu 1956 makuuchi. Tategyoji promotion Hatsu 1974 Shikimori Inosuke, surpassing 2 senior gyoji, and Kyushu 1977 Shonosuke, both as the youngest ever. Final basho Kyushu 1990 - 17 years as tate-gyoji.

Kyushu 1977

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Hatsu 1987

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Edited June 27, 2023 by Akinomaki

[rokudenashi]

17 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

age of 97

Debut Haru 1936

I had to check Wikipedia because this interested me. He was born on December 3rd 1925 and the 1936 Haru basho was in January - so he would have just turned 10 years old.

Was it common for gyōji (and possibly other urakata) to join at such young ages back then? 

Edit: he was also recruited into sumō by none other than the 19th Shikimori Inosuke

Edited June 27, 2023 by rokudenashi

[Kaninoyama]

47 minutes ago, rokudenashi said:

 

The gyoji need to bring that Confucian beard look back. 

[Kishinoyama]

I didn’t know that he was still alive! He was my favorite back then and I remember when he retired. He had wonderful voice.

[Akinomaki]

4 hours ago, rokudenashi said:

Was it common for gyōji (and possibly other urakata) to join at such young ages back then? 

It was, especially for gyoji: they joined as mame-gyoji - something changed in 1947, they were made to go to school. But also rikishi joined at a much younger age. Middle school graduation became obligatory in 1973

[Swami]

10 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

The 27th Kimura Shonosuke, Sokichi Kumagai has passed away at the age of 97 on the 22nd due to old age infirmity, the funeral took place with near relatives only. Debut Haru 1936, Natsu 1956 makuuchi. Tategyoji promotion Hatsu 1974 Shikimori Inosuke, surpassing 2 senior gyoji, and Kyushu 1977 Shonosuke, both as the youngest ever. Final basho Kyushu 1990 - 17 years as tate-gyoji.

Kyushu 1977

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Hatsu 1987

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He was a great gyoji, one of my favourites along with his immediate successor as tate-gyoji.  There was also a great sanyaku gyoji of that era - can't remember his name - but he took charge of most ozeki/sekiwake bouts.

 

Swami

[Akinomaki]

On 27/06/2023 at 12:07, Akinomaki said:

The 27th Kimura Shonosuke, Sokichi Kumagai has passed away at the age of 97 on the 22nd due to old age infirmity, the funeral took place with near relatives only. Debut Haru 1936, Natsu 1956 makuuchi. Tategyoji promotion Hatsu 1974 Shikimori Inosuke, surpassing 2 senior gyoji, and Kyushu 1977 Shonosuke, both as the youngest ever. Final basho Kyushu 1990 - 17 years as tate-gyoji.

Video from the NSK in honour of the 27th Kimura Shonosuke: final bout, flowers and intai interview

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Edited July 2, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi]

Not sure if this is the right place (would be glad to start another thread if not), but Mitakeumi's father has just passed away on 5 July.

https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202307060000728.html

Ōmichi Haruo was 74. The cause of death is not stated. Mitakeumi was allowed to return to Kisō town immediately to be mourner-in-chief, although Dewanoumi oyakata said that he would be back in time for shōnichi.

[rhyen]

4 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

Not sure if this is the right place (would be glad to start another thread if not), but Mitakeumi's father has just passed away on 5 July.

https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202307060000728.html

Ōmichi Haruo was 74. The cause of death is not stated. Mitakeumi was allowed to return to Kisō town immediately to be mourner-in-chief, although Dewanoumi oyakata said that he would be back in time for shōnichi.

Not right, I think there is a separate thread for rikishi family member. 

[Akinomaki]

Ex-Koshinishiki, Masashi Ozawa - pro wrestler Killer Khan has suddenly died yesterday at the age of 76  from an artery rupture, he collapsed while at work in his restaurant Kan-chan no ninjo-sakaba カンちゃんの人情酒場 - Kan-chan's kindness tavern, he had opened this year. He also was singer under the name KillerKhan (3 singles https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/58950/)

the former bar, opened after pro-wres intai 1987, closed down in 2021, when he needed cancer surgery

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With ani-deshi Tochiazuma I in September this year, he was his tsukebito - after 53 years the first time again they met, when Tamanoi and former Tamanoi came to his new tavern

down in a fight with Wajima

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Edited December 30, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Kamitsuumi]

According to Sponichi, his shikona is pronounced Koshinishiki

[Akinomaki]

1 hour ago, Kamitsuumi said:

According to Sponichi, his shikona is pronounced Koshinishiki

I searched for him as Koshinishiki at first, but didn't find him - the DB has him as Etsunishiki#, needs to be updated

[Akinomaki]

The controversial (convicted) Don of Nichidai,  ex-rijicho and sumo club main coach Hidetoshi Tanaka has died at age 77 - also former JOC vice president, president of the international sumo federation ... He had been in hospital since the end of the year.

with his wife at the presentation of kesho mawashi from the Nichidai alumni club for Daieisho and Tsurugisho, April 2021

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3 times amateur yokozuna, student yokozuna in 3rd year - 34 titles in all

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at the entry press conference of Kushima(umi) Dec. 1987

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At the club 2015

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Party as new president of the international sumo federation 2006

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in 2021 the end

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Edited January 14, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

Soichi Takeuchi, ex-Kotogatake, ex-Shiratama-oyakata has died on the 24th due to heart failure in a hospital home in Hokkaido, age 71. The funeral service is on the 27th, chief mourner is his wife Keiko. After leaving the NSK in 1995, he worked for his (and Taiho's) hometown Teshikaga as curator of the Taiho museum. http://www.sanspo.com/article/20240226-4LJ74XWETNLZRB63VHV5NEUZ44/

Haru 77, Nagoya 76

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2006, supporting his son at baseball

[Akinomaki]

Ex-Myobudani has passed away at 02h today due to old age infirmity at age 86 - his career was in the Hakuho 柏鵬 era (=Kashiwado-Taiho)

Wake and funeral service will be held with only near relatives.

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[Yamanashi]

39 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

Ex-Myobudani has passed away at 02h today due to old age infirmity at age 86 - his career was in the Hakuho 柏鵬 era (=Kashiwado-Taiho)

Wake and funeral service will be held with only near relatives.

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I was astonished to read that 35% of his wins were by tsuridashi (all at Juryo or above, since there are no records in the db for his lower-rank career).

[WAKATAKE]

8 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Ex-Myobudani has passed away at 02h today due to old age infirmity at age 86 - his career was in the Hakuho 柏鵬 era (=Kashiwado-Taiho)

Wake and funeral service will be held with only near relatives.

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Looks like on two occasions he was involved in playoffs with yokozuna. First with Taiho, then with Kashiwado and Sadanoyama

[Akinomaki]

On 10/03/2024 at 14:28, Akinomaki said:

Ex-Myobudani has passed away at 02h today due to old age infirmity at age 86 - his career was in the Hakuho 柏鵬 era

Myobudani used his real name 明歩谷 as shikona with just a different middle kanji 明武谷 - martial art for walking. With about 190cm he was a tsuridashi specialist with crane as nickname. With Yoshibayama in the end at the new Miyagino-beya, that now ends. Model for the un-gyo kongo-rikishi statue at the Asakusa temple Sensoji (a-gyo Kitanoumi o - can't be, both statues were made in 1962 ),

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he was also popular among the foreign sujo of the time. As Nakamura-oyakata he left the NSK after he joined a christian sect.

He was in a tomoe-sen with Taiho and Kashiwado Aki 1961, who both were promoted to yokozuna after the basho

Edited March 13, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Inside Sport Japan]

From an old issue of Sumo World magazine.

John Jacques also commented on his passing on Facebook with photos.

LINK HERE

[Kintamayama]

Myobudani (we used to call him Danny) was my favorite rikishi growing up. He was somehow different than the run of the mill rikishi. Him and Wakachichibu. And Tsurugamine (Terao's dad), the Tamawashi of back then. Other than Taihou and Kashiwado of course, who were idolized beyond recognition.