This may not seem like much, but while the Ozeki was maddeningly inconsistent and underwhelming, this kachikoshi means that Shodai will officially have a longer tenure as Ozeki than either recent Ozeki Tochinoshin or Asanoyama. So, Shodai will soldier on. Feast or famine for the beleaguered heya. Having reached the edge of heaven at Makushita 1, injuries knocked him all the way back down to Jonokuchi where he was forced to restart his career.
Having instead curiously taken the name Asanowaka, Terasawa was one of two success stories for Takasago in makushita last tournament. You might remember him as the guy who had his practise mawashi stolen with the remains of his dead rabbit inside. Those eight rikishi combined for a record of That almost-.
The youth movement that had threatened to wash away the detritus has so far failed to really materialise. The Kyushu basho will, at least, provide some looks in Juryo for Kotoshoho, Hokuseiho and Hiradoumi to hopefully show that there are youngsters who have got what it takes to keep moving up into the top division and establish themselves. And this may actually be the more telling thing. We know that the age at which a rikishi can break into and stick in the top division is often an indicator of their ultimate final destination in the sport.
That inability recently of many to skip through Juryo also owes much to an aged veteran presence in that division. The Mongolian duo of 33 year old Kyokushuho and 34 year old Azumaryu continue to rack up enough wins to hang around the place, and will be joined by Tokushoryu next tournament as he replaces the tricenarian trio who look likely to head up. This evening Japan time, the news that we have been anticipating all week was made official: The 69th Yokozuna Hakuho has retired from sumo.
His run of 63 consecutive makuuchi victories in , broken by the future Yokozuna Kisenosato, is bettered only by the legendary Yokozuna Futabayama. Hakuho was and will remain known for, among other things, his incredible presence and aura in the dohyo, his peerless speed at the tachiai, ability to overwhelm almost any opponent of the several eras of his career with a variety of techniques, his power of motivation to find new records to break and new ways to challenge himself, his dedication to amateur sumo, his community work especially in the aftermath of the tsunami , his desire to connect sumo to global audiences, and latterly, the remarkable recruiting of new rikishi which he will bring into his coaching career.
Taking all of this into account, it is even more remarkable that Hakuho famously joined Miyagino-beya in a last ditch effort, after the oyakata took him in as a favour to groundbreaking Mongolian sekitori Kyokushuzan. Hakuho embraced modern medicine in a bid to prolong his career to the extent that he did, which often also brought him criticism from some within the sumo community who felt he should have retired earlier rather than taking repeated kyujo.
As mentioned in a previous post, John Gunning did a wonderful encapsulation of this in The Japan Times , and it is highly recommended as a read. There had been speculation for years over when his retirement would come, and it was accompanied by the usual announcement from the Kyokai above. We had debated not only when he would go out, and how.
Those who are interested in the Sumo Association stock exchange had debated what elder name he might take, or if he would be allowed to continue as the greatest Dai-Yokozuna had, by using the privileged one-generation ichidai toshiyori. And so it is that Hakuho will take the Magaki name, as had been rumoured earlier in the year. Hakuho has become Magaki oyakata. If he later opens a stable under that name it will be the first time it has existed since Magaki Beya was where Terunofuji started his ozumo career.
That building was torn down and replaced by an apt block. It is likely that at that stage or at some point before , Hakuho will takeover the heya as the new shisho. He may choose to rename the stable Magaki-beya, or, as has been done recently at other stables such as Tokitsukaze and Takasago, switch kabu with the outgoing shisho and assume the more prestigious Miyagino name for himself at that time.
Rumours are already swirling in the press as we have previously detailed that Hakuho is looking at expensive new real estate for a blockbuster new construction project for the heya.
Congratulations to Yokozuna Hakuho, Magaki Oyakata on the most incredible of storied careers on the dohyo. The debates about the content of his sumo and what to make of his controversial legacy and what it means to be a champion will wait. To find a way out of an issue is to work all the way through it and writing this song gave me the opportunity to throw every different thought and feeling into a void and to see what would remain.
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