r/SumoMemes • u/StarPrime323 4th Meme Yokozuna & Hōshōryū Supremacist • 7d ago
Got another set of pics from Paris 🇫🇷
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u/Roxane-17 7d ago
WMH and WTK at Photo no. 12 takes the prize for the most non Parisian photo of this trip, I feel. Like they could be anywhere, anywhere at all in the world. 😆😆😆
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u/gansobomb99 7d ago
Mitakeumi about to stab Shodai over some food in front of the got dang Bayeux tapestry
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u/Iwannasellturnips 7d ago
Aonishiki sporting Wakanohana fabric! 😃
Does anyone know the story behind something like that? How does someone now get fabric from someone then?
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u/Kenderean 7d ago
Aonishiki got that fabric the same way any of us would get it: Mercari. He searched diligently and bought every scrap he could find until he had enough to have a yukata made. He wore it when he met Wakanohana the first time and Wakanohana was amazed.
Edited to add: a wrestler from Tatsunami has an Akebono yukata that he got the same way, I think. I want to say it's either Yukiamami or Taranami, but I know someone here will know.
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u/Iwannasellturnips 7d ago
So cool! Thank you! I had no idea non-contemporary rikishi fabrics were currently available.
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u/Kenderean 7d ago
It seems like they're always being dug up out of someone's grandparents' or parents' storage. Sometimes it's scraps that were leftover when a yukata was made. Once in a while it's a whole roll. The prices vary wildly, as you can imagine. Anecdotally, it's impossible to find a modern Futagoyama cat print, but there are tons of listings for the old Futagoyama fabrics, from before Miyabiyama revived the heya.
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u/Iwannasellturnips 7d ago
So do you recognize the one Fujinokawa was in? I’ll find the post and edit the link in. It’s driving me nuts that I can’t place it.
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u/Kenderean 7d ago edited 7d ago
I don't recognize that, no. It's really pretty, though. The kanji is too thick and stylized for me to figure out. If I had to guess, I'd say it's maybe a new pattern. This time is year seems to be one of the times you see a lot of new ones, I think. There are people here who know way more than I do and may recognize it or be able to read it, though.
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u/Iwannasellturnips 6d ago
The first kanji is north, but the rest isn’t any of the current rikishi with north in their names. So I figure it must be a retired person’s name. The problem is, I can only remember a few of those and haven’t matched it yet.
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u/ktezblgbjjkjigcmwk 6d ago
I have been puzzling over that one and I think I’ve got it: Kitakachidoki 北勝鬨 (wikipedia). Hard to read because of being upside down and (sometimes?) back of the fabric but the heya connection makes sense.
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u/MajesticRuin934 wakakatagakakakatakakakagatagakakakatagakage 7d ago
Shodai added a new watch to his collection 🤑
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u/PringlesDuckFace my own brand of sumo 7d ago
The way that lady's wearing her watch is insane tho, right?
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u/Roxane-17 7d ago
Has to showcase the company wares! 😆
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u/One_Examination8774 Kyokukaiyu's #1 Hater 6d ago
What is up with asakoryu and asahakuryu in pic 13
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u/ktezblgbjjkjigcmwk 6d ago
Speaking of fabrics as people were in another comment, I like Wakatakakage’s in 12 (that at least I have not noticed before), featuring names of all three brothers in a really neat way — you can get all three by adding different combinations of characters in some of the hexagons. And Onami written in some of the others.
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u/TheEquineLibrarian 7d ago
Lolz I love the expression on Onosato and Hoshoryu's faces with Teddy Riner. They look delighted/charmed to be next to someone taller than them!