[sumo] Fwd: [Sumo news] - No more train-ing

[Jeffrey Anderson]

Moti
Gaijingai
Sad

Best regards,
Jeffrey Anderson

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these:
It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier


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From: Moti Dichne <niramiai at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Subject: [Sumo news] - No more train-ing
To: Sumo Newsletter2 <sumo-newsletter2 at googlegroups.com>


The famous Sumo- train used by the rikishi to travel to the three non-Tokyo
venues has been discontinued. Makushita and under rikishi used to travel on
this train a day after the Banzuke was released and returned to Tokyo a
week after the end of the basho. Tokyo station used to be filled with
hundreds of rikishi and officials giving off the the sweet aroma of the
bintsuke oil and fans used to gather to see their idols board the train.
This always signaled that a basho was approaching. But as times change, the
use of the train dwindled and for Kyushu only 11 of the 44 heyas used the
train. The turning point was COVID- after March 2020 the train was
suspended and was reinstated only last Nagoya. So now, each heya will get
to the provincial tournaments on their own. Another historical facet of
sumo comes to an end. Trains will be continued to be used during some parts
of jungyo, but the Sumo train is no more.


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A young Taihou (1960)
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Mah_jong parlor
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