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It's easy remembering what Hidenoumi looks like, if you remember him as the rikishi who so generously turned down all of the good-looks genes so his younger brother Tobizaru could inherit them all.
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Shiroc posted:しょだい
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riderchop posted:
e: And with the weak yen, it's only $33.58!
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Apraxin posted:fun fact about Okinoumi is that while it's not untrue that he's from Shimane prefecture, his actual hometown is on the Oki Islands, about 50 miles off the mainland and with a total pop of about 20k. Kuros posted:Also concerning Takanosho vs Chiyoshoma was it a hair pull? I missed what happened but thought that Taka won until they called the DQ.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:I love the bananaman.
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Shiroc posted:I'm happy for Azumaryu but it was kinda weird how nobody at all reacted to him finally getting kk, not even Azumaryu himself.
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I could swear that someone got a fusensho when Hoshoryu was out for his ankle, but Hoshoryu's record isn't x-y-1. What about his kyujo made it count as a regular loss vs. a no-show?
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Ah! Thanks for the explanation. I wondered if it might be something like that. 
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Apraxin posted:Day 14, but don't think it needs spoilers: lol at the abema color comentator expressing surprise at Aoyama having a green mawashi because 'i just associate him with blue you know? his name starts with Ao (blue) and he's from Blue-garia' 
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some kinda jackal posted:My shortlist of peeves with the highlights show in a vacuum is that it's not on demand, and it's delayed.
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some kinda jackal posted:or at least some way that involves me flopping down on the couch to watch fat men wrestle on a big screen e: John Gunning on Takakeisho's promotion prospects, depaywalled: https://archive.ph/hY4h0 Hirayuki fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Requested by MidnightSumo: https://youtu.be/SDZyyQT0xK0
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Lucasar posted:Don't think I've ever seen Shohozan smile before.  Thankfully Ichiyamamoto is freer with his smiles than most. 
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Feb 13, 2023 05:59
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A haiku for the occasion: Late Valentine's gift: all the rikishi born in mid-November (lots) eta: Oh, and happy birthday to Oho, who's 23 today! Hirayuki fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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Takayasu may want to reconsider that tradition of never washing one's practice mawashi.
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I was looking for news on Tobizaru being back in sanyaku and came across this fascinating collection of photos of rikishi from 2002 and 2003: https://www.charlesfreger.com/portfolio/rikishi/ I know I spotted a young Hokutofuji and an even younger Tobizaru (  )--maybe you folks who've been following the sport for longer can ID more.This one guy, though...I feel like I know who he is, but I can't place him.  You'd think with that brow and hairline, he'd be easy to find. Google Lens most unhelpfully put big man-tits together with blue mawashi and said "This must be Akua!" 
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:Is that Akiseyama? I didn't think I'd recognize Tobizaru but I got him straight away lmao great find, some real good shots in there. I wonder how many of those younger, skinnier kids stuck with the sport.
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May is a beautiful time of year to get married and celebrate your anniversary. Cheers!
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I loved the interview they did with Kinbozan after his day-1 win. Just the usual stupid questions, including "What are your goals for this basho?" "To not get injured and to get kachikoshi," he answered. "And you're fine with just getting kachikoshi?" the interviewer prodded. "Yes, I am," replied Kinbozan. "Hokuseiho said he was going for a double-digit win," needled the interviewer. Kinbozan, God bless him, came right back with "Well, that would be nice, but right now I'm going to try to not get injured and to get kachikoshi." You tell 'em, kiddo! eta:  
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bartolimu posted:Day 13
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Vargatron posted:I continue my run of pulling 8-7 and 7-8 performances.
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Brut posted:Anyway shitposting aside, this is neat:
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Tuna in Japanese is 'maguro'?
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Sumo Kaboom has a really fun bingo game, too, that lets you win (real prizes, potentially!) off either winning or losing records. In other news, this John Gunning article was featured in today's Japan Times daily newsletter: Return of yokozuna deliberation council offers good and bad
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Ah, so he "retired" like so many disgraced people in politics and business "resign."
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This gentleman's hair-hat was immensely distracting.
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I came across this video on NHK World: Miyagino Sho: Hakuho's Next Chapter
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Fearless posted:Mebbe there is a cultural difference at play here, but saying that Takakeisho did nothing to shame his rank is damning by faint praise.
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Like Daiamami, though in that case it's not the kanji but the pronunciation that cemented his name as "Big Sweetness" in my mind.
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Fearless posted:There was a musical interlude on the Midnight Sumo stream in which Kakuryu sang "My Way." He's got one hell of a set of pipes on him, that's for sure. A bunch of rikishi are better-than-average singers. Takayasu comes to mind, too. And Enho, showing it's not necessarily the bigger body giving them musical chops.
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I love how Ikioi sang poo poo that either sounded like his name (like here, "Futari de Ikiyou") or slipped his name into stuff (like the "Hakkeyoi, hakkeyoi" song, which he sang "Hakkeyoi, Ikioi"). It's the (very) little things.
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Here's a de-paywalled article by John Gunning about sumo's grueling year-round schedule and the need for an actual off-season: https://archive.ph/06ede
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I was getting settled into my Shinkansen seat on my way from Tokyo to Kyoto yesterday evening when I happened to catch the back of what looked for all the world like a rikishi trundling down the aisle into the next car: big dude (taller, wider), indigo yukata, mage. I regret not seeing who it might have been, but I'll take it as a minor brush with some level of assumed greatness. (I'm pretty sure he wasn't anyone too high up on the totem pole, though he was in a first-class car.) I spotted another rikishi at an airport nearly thirty years ago when I wasn't into sumo. He was getting the minor-celebrity treatment; my host sister couldn't tell me who he was.
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Brut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWy363dtgDk
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Tobi  Beeswax posted:
 The given translation for Ichiyamamoto's wish was kind of funky, so I checked the Japanese for that one out, too. He wrote "Hachiyamamoto," I assume referring to the eight wins he needs for KK.
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anakha posted:The end of an era.
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Bentai posted:https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d3b12efd7cd7b51a550dd7af86559ed5e77046ee 
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We could probably analyze all the wrappings and figure out who that body belongs to.
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Next Sunday!
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