Retired Hakuho. When will the haircut ceremony be (Jiji Press Photo)
The 69th yokozuna, Hakuho, who retired and took the name of Magaki’s master. He will be assigned to the “Sumo Promotion Department” and will be guarding the venue in November wearing a blue jumper from the Sumo Association in Kyushu. It becomes the “Chonmage master” who still has a mage on his head. In fact, due to the influence of Corona, there are a number of retired wrestlers who cannot perform danpatsu-shi and retired sumo wrestlers, and the association is now full of Chonmage masters. Originally, Yokozuna’s hair-cutting ceremony and retirement sumo, which set a number of records in history, should be a big event, but it is not clear when it will happen.
Even in the autumn of September, young masters who are guards gather around the ring after the launch, but many of them still have mage on their heads. The number of Chonmage masters has increased to 13 due to Hakuho’s retirement.
“A total of more than 30 retired wrestlers in the Makuuchi can hold retirement sumo wrestlers and haircut ceremonies at the Kokugikan. , Corona has held this place with no spectators and limited number of people, so it has been canceled or postponed one after another. ”(Sumo wrestler)
During the fall, posters for the haircut ceremony and retirement sumo wrestling for former Sekiwake and Tochiozan (Kiyomigata masters) to be held on January 30th next year were posted in the Kokugikan. It was scheduled to be held after the summer of May this year, but it was postponed due to the corona wreck. Former Sekiwaki and Aminishiki (Ajigawa master) who retired in July 2019 initially postponed the haircut ceremony and retirement sumo scheduled for October 2020 to May 30, this year, and then May 29 next year. It was postponed again to the day.
Former Tochiozan and former Yasumi Nishiki have been postponed, but the schedule has been announced, but former Yokozuna / Tsururyu (Tsururyu master) and former Ozeki / Kotoshogiku (Hidenoyama) Many Chongmage masters such as former Ozeki / Goeido (Takekuma master), former Sekiwake / Toyonoshima (Izutsu master), and former Sekiwake / Kafu (Nakamura master) cannot even make a schedule.
“On October 2, a haircut ceremony for former Sekiwake and Kotoyuki (Kimigahama), who retired in April of this year, was held at the Kokugikan. There was no retirement sumo wrestling that took one day. It was held without spectators, and only 250 people including scissors attended.
With such an unattended, hair-cutting style, the association’s permission will be given immediately, but the problem is that the number of celebrations received will be “dramatically reduced.” If you can enter the audience, even if you have half the capacity, you can earn a ticket fee (19,000 to 30,000 yen for two people, 4000 to 9,500 yen for a chair seat = in the case of retirement sumo wrestling in Tochiozan). , It will be tens of millions of yen. Of course, it is not possible to have a shūmei party separately from the haircut ceremony and retirement sumo wrestling in Corona. There are many masters who are in debt to obtain the old man’s name, and I want to manage to put 10,000 people in the Kokugikan and do a retirement sumo wrestling. Under the circumstances where this place is limited to 5,000 spectators, it is natural to see the situation without deciding the schedule for the haircut ceremony and retirement sumo. “(Young master)
Until now, retired wrestlers who have taken the name of the elderly and remain in the association have held retirement sumo wrestlers and haircut ceremonies at the Kokugikan within six months to a year. Former Aminishiki, who retired in July 2019, has been living as a master with the longest mage, and more than two years have already passed. Even if the retirement sumo wrestling and danpatsu-shi ceremony could be held on May 29, next year, it would have taken nearly three years since retirement.
Under such circumstances, when will Hakuho’s retirement sumo be? It is the 13th in the “waiting” line.
“Currently, the tour is canceled, so there is plenty of time after the place, but if the tour and welfare sumo wrestling resumes after next spring, the haircut ceremony and retirement sumo that can be done after the main place in Tokyo is limited to two people. It will take more than two years for Hakuho to turn around as six people a year. The end of Corona is still uncertain, but even if it goes well, it will be after the fall of 2024. ” Departure / young master)
Hakuho was allowed to retire after signing a pledge to keep the rules of the association as an elderly person, but holding a retirement sumo wrestling and a haircut ceremony is likely to be a long way off.
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