Retirees-after Haru 2018

[Kintamayama]

Oosunaarashi

Kotomisen

Kyokuhikari (41 years old..)

Nonaka

[Asashosakari]

Wow, that's a short list this time. 

Summary query, Qsunaarashi news, Kotomisen news, Kyokuhikari news. Note for the DB: Kotomisen is listed as intai per Day 15, so no yasumi for that day. (Also, Osunaarashi intai pre-basho.)

Kyokuhikari was the third-oldest active rikishi and the second-longest tenured.

If I'm counting correctly that means there will be 685 rikishi on the Natsu banzuke, the largest number since Kyushu 2010. Incidentally, the basho just gone had exactly 700 registered rikishi (including those in maezumo and those listed as banzuke-gai)...647 on the banzuke, plus sandanme tsukedashi Kizakiumi, 44 in maezumo and 8 banzuke-gai. First time since Natsu 2011 that the 700 mark has been reached.

Edited March 28, 2018 by Asashosakari

[Yamanashi]

9 hours ago, Asashosakari said:

Wow, that's a short list this time. 

Summary query, Qsunaarashi news, Kotomisen news, Kyokuhikari news. Note for the DB: Kotomisen is listed as intai per Day 15, so no yasumi for that day. (Also, Osunaarashi intai pre-basho.)

Kyokuhikari was the third-oldest active rikishi and the second-longest tenured.

If I'm counting correctly that means there will be 685 rikishi on the Natsu banzuke, the largest number since Kyushu 2010. Incidentally, the basho just gone had exactly 700 registered rikishi (including those in maezumo and those listed as banzuke-gai)...647 on the banzuke, plus sandanme tsukedashi Kizakiumi, 44 in maezumo and 8 banzuke-gai. First time since Natsu 2011 that the 700 mark has been reached.

Kyokuhikari's first basho was May 1992; the yusho was won by Sekiwake Akebono.  Astonishing.
 

[Bumpkin]

23 minutes ago, Yamanashi said:

Kyokuhikari's first basho was May 1992; the yusho was won by Sekiwake Akebono.  Astonishing.
 

Born on the 4th of July. July 4, 1976. America's bicentennial.

[Washuyama]

30 minutes ago, Bumpkin said:

Born on the 4th of July. July 4, 1976. America's bicentennial.

I remember that day specifically because my parents wanted to go get a good seat for the fireworks show (on Yokota Air Base) and I cried until they let me watch sumo on tv (it was opening day of the basho).  No way I was going to miss sumo to watch some stupid fireworks!

[Asojima]

45 minutes ago, Washuyama said:

I remember that day specifically because my parents wanted to go get a good seat for the fireworks show (on Yokota Air Base) and I cried until they let me watch sumo on tv (it was opening day of the basho).  No way I was going to miss sumo to watch some stupid fireworks!

And I forced my kids to attend an open house birthday bash at Atsugi Naval Air Facility in Kanagawa.

Edited March 28, 2018 by Asojima

[Dapeng]

1 hour ago, Washuyama said:

I remember that day specifically because my parents wanted to go get a good seat for the fireworks show (on Yokota Air Base) and I cried until they let me watch sumo on tv (it was opening day of the basho).  No way I was going to miss sumo to watch some stupid fireworks!

Well, I was in middle school in China and didn't know where America was, but I did know "sumo 相撲 " : the same two kanji that means "wrestling" in ancient China.

[ryafuji]

2 hours ago, Yamanashi said:

Kyokuhikari's first basho was May 1992; the yusho was won by Sekiwake Akebono.  Astonishing.
 

Well, first on the banzuke. His debut was in March,  alongside the original group of six Mongolians - Kyokutenho, Kyokushuzan etc.

Edited March 28, 2018 by ryafuji
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[Bumpkin]

2 hours ago, Washuyama said:

I remember that day specifically because my parents wanted to go get a good seat for the fireworks show (on Yokota Air Base) and I cried until they let me watch sumo on tv (it was opening day of the basho).  No way I was going to miss sumo to watch some stupid fireworks!

I was living on Yokota AB. I have no specific memory of the fireworks but I would have been home watching sumo. Small world.

[WAKATAKE]

On 3/27/2018 at 22:18, Kintamayama said:

Oosunaarashi

Kotomisen

Kyokuhikari (41 years old..)

Nonaka

I've updated the top ten records for most career basho to reflect Kyokuhikari retiring.

http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/37692-top-10-sumo-records-haru-2018-edition/?do=findComment&comment=360678