Bright colored mawashi, Ura among them...

[Seiyashi]

5 minutes ago, RabidJohn said:

Is that a manufacturer's mark?

Yes. 

[Seiyashi]

4 hours ago, Naganoyama said:

Wrong colour - I believe you mean these:

[Yamanashi]

5 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

Wrong colour - I believe you mean these:

(It didn't display for me)

[Benevolance]

Nothing shows up for me, either. I'd hate to think that Seiyashi is intimating Kintamayama might lack a certain je ne sais quoi? 

[Seiyashi]

Hmmm, apparently Google embeds don't work, at least for some browsers (I know sumojoann can see these).

This work? EDIT: From the likes, yes.

Edited August 7, 2021 by Seiyashi

[Benihana]

As mawashi it would be a bit over the top, but it would make a fabulous yukata:

Spoiler

 

[Kaminariyuki]

24 minutes ago, Benihana said:

As mawashi it would be a bit over the top, but it would make a fabulous yukata:

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A yukata for the rikishi or for Benihana? I think the style may be more European than Japanese but you could be right about the yukata.

I've found that many Japanese men do not own a yukata. I actually have two more than any of my close Japanese friends. Maybe my friends aren't the norm but I have the impression they only wear yukata when they go to an onset town or resort.

[Yamanashi]

14 hours ago, Naganoyama said:

"After quickly reaching Sumo Forum Juryo, he was given an additional prefix, "go-" to his shikona.  This proved disastrous, as he suffered make-koshi records in the next three basho and fell to mid-Makushita.  Upon returning to his original ring name, he quickly rebounded and began his meteoric rise to SF Yokozuna."  Wackipedia article, "Kintamayama Moti"

[sumojoann]

10 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

 

 

If Kintamayama had this many, he'd have to get a bigger mawashi.

[Benevolance]

What makes you think he doesn't? He's the Mick Jagger of osumo digests. 

[sumojoann]

35 minutes ago, Benevolance said:

What makes you think he doesn't? He's the Mick Jagger of osumo digests. 

I respect Kintamayama and myself too much to be a groupie, so I'll guess the contents of his mawashi will have to remain a divine mystery.

[ViscountessNivlac]

On 06/08/2021 at 17:54, ryafuji said:

The rule is actually that mawashi have to be either black or dark purple - it just isn't enforced. I don't think any rikishi would dare push their luck by having more than one colour in their mawashi! 

I’ve often wondered if that’s ever written anywhere. If it isn’t, then it’s an unenforced and unwritten rule - so it isn’t actually the rule.

[Seiyashi]

1 hour ago, ViscountessNivlac said:

On 07/08/2021 at 00:54, ryafuji said:

The rule is actually that mawashi have to be either black or dark purple - it just isn't enforced. I don't think any rikishi would dare push their luck by having more than one colour in their mawashi! 

I’ve often wondered if that’s ever written anywhere. If it isn’t, then it’s an unenforced and unwritten rule - so it isn’t actually the rule.

By the same token, I wonder who was the brave soul to first breach the rule, considering we know that Wajima was wearing gold often enough to be well-known for it way back when.

[Asashosakari]

1 hour ago, Seiyashi said:

By the same token, I wonder who was the brave soul to first breach the rule, considering we know that Wajima was wearing gold often enough to be well-known for it way back when.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamanoumi_Daitarō

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Tamanoumi reached his highest rank of sekiwake in 1957 but then was forced to sit out a couple of tournaments through injury. He fell to the maegashira ranks and considered retiring, but came back to win the top division tournament championship in November 1957 (the first time the Kyūshū honbasho had been staged) with a perfect 15–0 score. During that tournament he wore a gold-coloured mawashi, the first wrestler to flout the Japan Sumo Association's rule that only dark colours should be worn. It had been given to him by the chairman of his supporter's club, who was also the head of the shipping company for whom he had worked in his years out of sumo. Because other wrestlers regarded it as a symbol of good luck, and also because NHK began colour broadcasts of sumo matches in 1960, many others have followed Tamanoumi's lead and worn brightly coloured mawashi.

The equivalent ja.wiki article adds that he received special permission from the board of directors because he (originally) intended it to be his final tournament.

Edited August 8, 2021 by Asashosakari

[Seiyashi]

Wow, this guy's a real barnstormer, isn't he.

[Kintamayama]

16 hours ago, sumojoann said:

I respect Kintamayama and myself too much to be a groupie, so I'll guess the contents of his mawashi will have to remain a divine mystery.

All I can say is the number doesn't matter-what really matters is how loud the sound is when they clang together.

[Kaminariyuki]

3 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

By the same token, I wonder who was the brave soul to first breach the rule, considering we know that Wajima was wearing gold often enough to be well-known for it way back when.

LOL, one doesn't get anything by Seiyashi normally, but I have to "ahem," given my original post, creating this thread.   

Edited August 8, 2021 by Kaminariyuki
typo correct

[Seiyashi]

1 minute ago, Kaminariyuki said:

LOL, one doesn't get anything by Seiwashi normally, but I have to "ahem," given my original post, creating this thread.   

I admit my shame. It's not often a thread comes full circle like this!

I accept the warning of the SF kyokai, and shall endeavour to be more respectable with my posting. 

[Kaminariyuki]

4 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

I admit my shame. It's not often a thread comes full circle like this!

I accept the warning of the SF kyokai, and shall endeavour to be more respectable with my posting. 

Sorry, I had to do it. I laughed when I typed it in, too... Ganbatte kudasai.  

[sumojoann]

4 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

All I can say is the number doesn't matter-what really matters is how loud the sound is when they clang together.

True.  And I can't help but imagine that you are the "Big Ben" of Ramat Gan! 

 

[Yamanashi]

Just imagine how many posts we've self-censored in this thread!

[Kintamayama]

6 hours ago, Yamanashi said:

Just imagine how many posts we've self-censored in this thread!

It's all a load of bollocks. 

[Jejima]

On 01/08/2021 at 19:50, SumoLyubo said:

Sentoryu chose his shikona because it sounded like his hometown of St. Louis, no?

Yes.