Sumo Kaboom

Leslie and Laurie Collins, Texan sisters and diehard sumo fans, talk about all things sumo.

Episode 116: Retirement, Sopranistas and Demons

Time Codes:

1:00 News
4:45 Hair-cutting History- how to say it
5:45 Haircutting in anime, geisha
9:00 Hair denoting status
11:30 North Korean hair styles
12:30 Bold statements
13:30 Retirement ceremonies in Japan
15:30 You can buy tickets, open to anyone, merch, staged fights, wrestling kids, songs, belt tying
16:15 Retirement ceremonies in the US
18:00 Cutting of the hair
21:30 Leslie's retirement ceremony
22:30 Artists we've seen at sumo retirement ceremonies
23:30 Who was singing at Toyonoshima's retirement ceremonies
24:15 Opera and sumo crossover
24:30 Kaftans and Tomotaka Okamoto
25:30 Sopranistas and opera  history
27:45 Tomotaka Okamoto and "World of Union" sample, Universal Music Japan
28:45 Tomotaka Okamoto's history and career
30:00 There are words to Bolero, opera, Chicago, The Wiz
30:30 National anthem singer
32:00 Devil Forest Concert with Demon Kakka and how to watch parts of it online
33:30 Description of Demon Kakka
34:30 We don't know what his real name is
35:00 Demon's background and career
36:30 In the sumo world - columnist for Sumo Fan Mag, banned from sumo in costume for years, maybe he went without the costume?
37:20 JSA asked him to come in costume, guest commentator
38:00 VO Actor in Hinomaru Sumo, spokesman
40:00 Sumo and the details around sumo are fascinating

Sources:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%AD%E9%AB%AA%E5%BC%8F

https://miyazakithoughts.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/ashitakas-topknot/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20203487?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3A3deb840d1e98d5608a230bc56c1e9cc1&seq=15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Kakka

https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202206050000563.html

https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202206060000715.html

https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Ashitaka

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Ashitaka#:~:text=Ashitaka%20is%20the%20male%20protagonist,curse%20from%20falling%20onto%20another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emishi

https://www.universal-music.co.jp/tomotaka-okamoto/

On Twitter @TomotakaOKAMOTO
https://www.universal-music.co.jp/tomotaka-okamoto/biography/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopranist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Kakka
For portions of the Forest Concert: AKUMA NO MORI NO ONGAKUKAI in CURIAN【for J-LOD LIVE】

** Music:**

"Advanced Japanese Folk" by Audiotoolz

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Audiotoolz/Progressive_Folk/02_-_audiotoolz_-_advanced_japanese_folk

Under creative commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

News Theme by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Intro/Outtro music by MARiAN - Tokyo Trap

Tomotaka Okamoto - Universal Music Japan - "World of Union" https://www.universal-music.co.jp/tomotaka-okamoto/