The recently concluded Summer Basho saw some significant names make their way off the stage, only to be replaced by rising talents with comparable backgrounds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2023/06/07/sumo/sumo-flat-circle-rikishi-transitions/?utm_content=buffer66bd2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #sports #sumo #ichinojo #ishiura #tochinoshin #kawazoe #shishi #kiho
Sumo's 'flat circle' keeps turning as upstarts replace iconic veterans

As Tochinoshin, Ichinojo, and Ishiura exit the stage, new talents are rising to take their places.

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@wukong Yes, it has recently come out in the press that for #Ichinojo has been struggling with booze for some time. He blamed it on the stress of living with other people β€” I totally get that, and I wasn’t even raised outdoors in a nomadic tribe β€” and they let him move out, but the drinking resumed. So the tabloids say.

His stable master sent the stable master’s wife as a chaperone but of course once he had a taste his addiction was stronger than her admonishments. I guess he pushed her away when she intervened, or irritably flailed his arm without care for her well being, and apparently there were bruises as a consequence.

You have to admire the elderly woman who will take on a drunken angry Ichinojo. Put a miwashi on her, trick her out with the rest of the rikishi. Have her sell Ozeki Brand Sake like they made Ichinojo do this week.

I made that doodle in #Blender and it was one of my first sculptures. Looking forward to getting back into sculpting! Jammed up with projects right now.

Wow. World of #Sumo just delivered some unfortunate reports about #Ichinojo. It’s been looking to me like he has been struggling with his mental health the last several years. I’m very sorry to hear β€” if true β€” that it isn’t just a #basho thing. It’s kind of hard to make sense of what is being reported.
#Ichinojo defeats yokozuna Terunofuji to take the yusho lead, undefeated in five days.
> #Ichinojo is the first of all Mongolian wrestlers who have gone on to join Japanese #sumo to come from a nomadic clan, as most of the Mongolians who preceded him have been city dwellers.
Ichinojo Takashi

Ichinojo Takashi - ι€ΈγƒŽεŸŽ ι§Ώ (born April 7, 1993) is a Mongolian professional sumo wrestler from Arkhangai Province. He made his debut in January 2014 and currently wrestles for Minato stable. He reached the makuuchi division in September 2014 and has three special prizes as well as eight kinboshi. His highest rank as of 2022 is sekiwake. Ichinnorov is the first of all Mongolian wrestlers who have gone on to join Japanese sumo to come from a nomadic clan, as most of the Mongolians who preceded him h

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Wow, another great day of September #sumo #basho. I love our new yokozuna, #Terunofuji is an absolute bear and he has great dignity. I am also a big fan of #Ichinojo and I love it any time he has fight in him, however it turns out. You never know what you're going to get with him unfortunately.

I was watching when #Tochinoshin was at his peak, but Terunofuji wasn't fighting at that time. (Injured?) Now Tochinoshin is at what looks to me like half power and I'm saddened because watching his peak form go against our new yokozuna would have been spectacular.

I'm glad that Terunofuji didn't have to share his first basho as yokozuna with the ongoing drama slash garbage fire that is his fellow yokozuna #Hakuho's graceless, ego driven fight to put off retirement. Hakuho is the kind of person who can find and will use every possible advantage. It's what makes him great and it is also what makes him terrible. I suspect he is not like this only in the ring. A yokozuna cannot be seen to decline and must retire rather than go back down the ranks. The older he gets, the less his strength, speed and skill can keep him at the very top and the more he has to rely on just being an absolute bastard. He fights not only his opponents but the #sumo elders. He will never retire gracefully. Gosh I hope I get to see Terunofuji retire him! I just love to see Hakuho lose, it's my favourite thing in all of sumo.