lol the kanji are actually kinda similar too.
They are. Haku (白) for the GOAT is the character meaning white. The other 伯 is a variation and thus, the same reading. Ho (鵬) is the same as it is the one HAK will grant is prized pupils to carry on his name. And the OU (桜) in the middle is the character for sakura/cherry blossoms.
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So there’s more of them?
伯桜鵬 - Hokuoho
炎鵬 - Enho
北青鵬 - Hokuseiho
輝鵬 - Kiho
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Thanks. I had no idea. As you may have gathered, I’m an extremely casual sumo fan.
While we’re at it, when “rikishi” is pronounced in Japanese is it two syllables or three. When written in English it sounds like it should be three, but when the commentator says it, it sounds more like two syllables.
勢先生 can correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure it should be three syllables, even emphasis. Sometimes the “ki” gets cut a bit short I think.
Yeah, that’s kind of how I hear it. It sounds more like rik-shi and that middle ‘i’ gets lost.
You’re both correct.
The full pronunciation is Ri - Ki - Shi. However, in spoken Japanese the “i” sound often gets truncated to the point of silence.
Yeah that makes sens… what the hell this language is nuts.
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Holy shit at that Ura-Hakoseiho match
Anyway despite the setback on day 6 I’m still pulling for Takayasu to ship it finally
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If Hoshoryu keeps sumoing like this he’ll be our next Ozeki, and eventually, the next Yokozuna.
My new fascination is occupation-era comics by GIs in Japan. They were like the first weeaboos in history.
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Most don’t realize that sukoshi is a Japanese-derived word. As is head “honcho.”
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Chonk?
This is an area controlled by the vietborg and North Vietnamese.
Sir, this thread is controlled by Mongolia.
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Really? It looks and sounds super Japanese to me.
I’ll admit I didn’t know Honcho. Not sure what I would have guessed if someone asked me.
Does how a rikishi wins a match get recorded in the official records somewhere? If so, who is the final arbiter of whether something is a yorikiri vs an oshidashi, for example.
I suspect those two are not hard for experts to tell apart, but it was the best example my casual fan brain could come up with.