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-Sumo Only Account- Commentator & presenter: NHK / NHK World Columnist: Japan Times Contributor: CNN / HBO / Apple TV 📷: RWC / Paralympics / XLeague / JRLO

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2011 article I did for Sumo World magazine on makushita division rikishi Wakamisho (now yokozuna Terunofuji) #Sumo #相撲 #照ノ富士 #大相撲
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500 days ago Onosato had never set foot in a professional sumo ring. Now he’s an ozeki with two Emperor’s Cups and 8 special prizes to his name. #Sumo #相撲
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With Autumn Basho win, Onosato makes it clear that he is sumo's dominant force

Onosato was so dominant over the course of the Autumn Basho that it's hard to see who can stop him from adding even more silverware in the coming tournaments.

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So much has happened in the intervening period it's hard to believe it's still only around a year and a half since I took these photos of soon-to-be-ozeki Onosato winning his second straight All-Japan title #Sumo #相撲 #大の里 #大相撲 #Onosato
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Now there was a time…when Onosato was in juryo and (to much derision) I predicted he’d be ozeki within the year. No point in using social media if you can’t take a victory lap when you get one right 🤣 - and yes I’m celebrating before crossing the line. #Sumo #相撲
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Had fun being the 5th Beatle as a color commentator on NHK live sumo broadcasts from 2012 to 2020. Then Covid hit and restrictions saw the play-by-play guys (Hiro, Ross, Murray, and Raja) alone in the booth. Post pandemic NHK stuck with one-person shows.😢 #Sumo #相撲
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In the only photo I have with the 58th yokozuna (Chiyonofuji) I'm wearing a T-shirt of the 20th yokozuna (Umegatani) #Sumo #相撲 #Chiyonofuji #Umegatani #千代の富士 #梅ヶ谷
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Back in the day the McDonalds across from the Kokugikan used to give free food to any rikishi that won his bout that day. You had to fill in your ring name, stable, and winning move for display on a board. #Sumo #相撲
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Doing sumo stuff on various CNN shows #Sumo #相撲
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2004 September. Ozeki Kaio's 5th and final yusho. Onosato was four years old. Hakuoho was one, and Wakaikari wouldn't be born for another five months. #Sumo #相撲 #魁皇 #大相撲
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In two decades plus of involvement with Japan’s national sport there have been just three rikishi that (while they were still in the lower divisions) I was absolutely certain would make yokozuna 1. Hakuho 2. Wakanoho 3. Onosato #Sumo #相撲
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My 2010 story on a Russian teenager who was on track to make yokozuna before being kicked out of sumo for smoking marijuana. #Sumo #相撲
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In todays column I take a look at why Onosato is so good #Sumo #相撲
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In the oyakata's shoes (literally not figuratively) at Otake stable in 2015. #Sumo #相撲
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91 meter roll of mawashi. This is what it looks like before it’s cut up into whatever lengths are needed. #Sumo #相撲 #まわし
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@hsBgR7QJL7eI1Cc 懐かしいといえば……😉
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Photo I took of three sumo legends in Sept 2006. Posing with Ozeki Hakuho and Yokozuna Asashoryu is Suzue Sato - an artist who hand-colored more than 350 giant monochrome championship photos for 62 years beginning in 1951. These days they use digital color photos #Sumo #相撲
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Nishikigi is going well this basho. Back in 2012 he and I went to a Hanshin Tigers game at Tokyo Dome with former makushita Kamakura. The three of us took up four seats forcing another fan to share a seat across the aisle. We bought him beer and snacks as an apology #sumo #相撲
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Photo I took of Kinbozan and the future Takerufuji in the Kokugikan dressing room during the 2021 All Japan Championships. Onosato won the first of two consecutive Amateur Yokozuna titles that day, while Hakuoho, and Hidetora Hanada also competed. #Sumo #相撲 #尊富士 #Takerufuji
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My 'Inside Sumo' column in The Japan Times this week will be on the Dohyo-Matsuri, so why not start a series of posts about that event with a look back at some @Asashoryu focused pics from 2006 ~ 2010. #Sumo #相撲 #朝青龍 #Asashoryu #土俵際 #大相撲
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2006 May 21 What Hakuho receiving the Emperor's Cup for the very first time looked like from where I was sitting. #Sumo #相撲 #大相撲 #白鵬 #Hakuho
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Wakaikari’s ninth straight Kachikoshi since joining pro sumo has put the son of Kabutoyama oyakata on the cusp of promotion to juryo. Seigo has a younger brother (Chugo) who should soon be joining him in ozumo. Both have been doing sumo since they were preschoolers. #Sumo #相撲
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A photo I took of Hakuho ( @HakuhoSho69 ) in Sept 2010 as the yokozuna posed in front of the yusho portraits for his May and July title championships that year - part of a run of SEVEN straight Emperor's Cup wins. #Hakuho #Sumo #相撲 #白鵬 #大相撲 #宮城野親方
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Top down view of the spittoon built into the Kokugikan dohyo. It’s where rikishi spit the water of power they receive from another wrestler pre bout. #Sumo #相撲 #Kokugikan #国技館
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On the jungyo (regional tour) in 2015 with today's history maker - Tamawashi - as well as Amuru and Aoiyama Mongolia, Ireland, Russia and Bulgaria in Japan's national sport. #Sumo #相撲 #巡業 #Jungyo #Tamawashi #玉鷲
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Several people have asked about the T-shirt Murray wore on Grand Sumo Preview this week. There were only five made (for us presenters on the show) and feature drawings by illustrator Kayo Takimoto for a 2020 edition of NHK's 'Sumo Broadcast' magazine. #Sumo #相撲
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2019 at Otake Stable with (from left) Shinyashiki, Naya (now Oho) and Mochizuki. #Sumo #相撲 #大相撲 #大嶽部屋 #Oho #王鵬
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My photo of sekiwake Hakuho walking into the Kokugikan on day 14 of the January 2006 tournament. Hakuho was one win behind ozeki Tochiazuma who would go on to defeat Asashoryu on day 15 to clinch his 3rd title - and the last by a Japanese-born rikishi for ten years. #Sumo #相撲
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Some photos I took in March 2011 of wrestlers and JSA staff fundraising to help with relief efforts after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The sign is from Tomozuna stable asking those viewing training to donate. #Sumo #相撲 #友綱部屋 #東日本大震災
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By the time the All Japan Championships take place each December, the 4 month old Kokugikan ring is dried out and cracked. Photos from 2015 when Turbold (Mitoryu) became the first foreign born amateur yokozuna. (The future Asanoyama took bronze) #Sumo #相撲 #アマチュア相撲
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Some pics I took in Jan 2007 of the Kokugikan rooftop open - something rarely seen. The size of the worker gives a real sense of its scale. #Sumo #相撲 #Kokugikan #国技館
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Terunofuji's (first) ozeki promotion - May 2015. #Sumo #相撲 #伊勢ヶ濱部屋 #Terunofuji #照ノ富士
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A photo I took of the Kokugikan dohyo being lowered　into the floor at the Japan Sumo Association "Fan Appreciation Day" event in December 2005. It's normally done when sumo's main arena hosts other events. #Sumo #相撲 #国技館 #大相撲
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NHK World Grand Sumo Preview Sept 2024 BTS NHKワールド秋場所グランドスモウプレビュー #Sumo #相撲
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Sign on the door of Tokitsukaze Stable in 2007 giving Lost in Translation 'Suntory Time' commercial shoot vibes. "Is that everything? It seems like he said quite a bit more than that." #Sumo #相撲
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On the topic of stable buildings that no longer exist....Tatsunami Beya used to be located just south of Ryogoku JR station. After practice, mawashi were always hung out to dry on a nearby bicycle shed fence, and often spilled onto the footpath. #Sumo #相撲 #立浪部屋 #大相撲
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The future Onosato won back to back All Japan championships (and the title of Amateur Yokozuna) in 2021 / 2022 Here's a video I shot of the first win, with wide shot from afterwards, as well as one of his cert, and dohyo pose in 2022 #Sumo #相撲 #大の里 #Onosato #大相撲
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Make that 10 straight and promotion to juryo. #若碇 #甲山親方 #Wakaikari
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Wakaikari’s ninth straight Kachikoshi since joining pro sumo has put the son of Kabutoyama oyakata on the cusp of promotion to juryo. Seigo has a younger brother (Chugo) who should soon be joining him in ozumo. Both have been doing sumo since they were preschoolers. #Sumo #相撲
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There's a mix of emotions when you put a foreign kid into pro sumo. Some photos from the mornings (in 2011 and 2015) when Osunaarashi 🇪🇬 and Homarenishiki 🇨🇦were accepted into Otake beya and Nishikido beya respectively. #Sumo #相撲 #大砂嵐 #誉錦
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A few snaps I managed to grab in Jan 2011 of Hakuho's championship portraits being brought inside the Kokugikan to be hoisted in the rafters. #Sumo #相撲 #大相撲 #白鵬 #Hakuho #DohyoMatsuri #土俵際 #大相撲
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A piece on my sumo journey that was in the Irish News (Belfast Newspaper) just as the pandemic was starting in 2020. #Sumo #相撲
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Story from 2010 involving American maegashira Sentoryu, sekiwake Wakashoyo, and sumo revenge played out in a different ring. #Sumo #相撲 #戦闘竜 #Sentoryu
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Jan 2010 Senshuraku Photos from the shitakubeya after Estonian sekiwake Baruto's Outstanding Performance Prize-earning 12-3 effort - which included wins over Hakuho, Harumafuji, Kakuryu, Kaio, Kotoshogiku, Kotooshu, & Goeido Note the phone in pic 3 - not allowed now. #Sumo #相撲
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With Musashikuni and Wakaichiro at an XLeague game in 2018 where the former man ran into a cousin who he discovered was playing for one of the teams. The cousin is Charles Tuaau (formerly of the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins) #Sumo #相撲
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For those who you rather see these posts on Bluesky……
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John Gunning (@johngunningsumo.bsky.social)

-Sumo Only Account- Commentator & presenter: NHK / NHK World Columnist: Japan Times Contributor: CNN / HBO / Apple TV Photographer: RWC / Paralympics / XLeague / JRLO

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@sumo_tim *Except Miyogiryu's first two banzuke (May and July 2009) when Aoiyama was not yet listed
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@democritus_wri Absolutely. It’s why I had him ranked at #3 overall before he even joined ozumo
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@Josheye Yep. I lived about 50 meters away and was in the stable most mornings. We used to hang out all the time, when he was in the lower divisions, shooting pool, movies, etc.
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@murrayj96144627 I'm cool with sharing the acorn since you have none
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@justelfr After Tokitaizan a lot changed.
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@tesol81 Wajima played for RocBull and later was GM for the team. Wakanohana played for Onward Skylarks. Neither team still exists though Nojima Sagamihara Rise is the successor to Onward.
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@tesol81 Wakanoho and Wakanohana are the only former rikishi to try out for NFL coaches in the US. Other former rikishi (including yokozuna Wajima) have played in the XLeague. Japan born players have been in NFL preseason games but none so far in the regular season.
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