Thursday was Kaio's 36th birthday!
He celebrated with a nice birthday win rich also gave him the kachi-koshi (more wins than loses required to keep your rank!)
Congratulations Kaio on your win, your birthday and your kachi-koshi!!!
If you are into WRC Rally Racing or Sumo then this is the place to be!! I LOVE Rally & my favorite driver in the world is Petter Solberg!!! After him I love Jari-Matti Latvala, Aki Teiskonen, Toshi Arai, Chris Atkinson, Gigi Galli and Henning Solberg. I'm also 100% crazy about Sumo and try to keep you updated on the best guys in the sport! My favorite Rikishi of all is Kitazakura! Right behind him are Kaisei, Kihaku, Baruto & Ama!! I love many guys but I have to limit here to my top 5!!
Happy Birthday
Tochinokuni (栃ノ国) !!!
Congratulations on your 20th!!!!
July 7th, which is also the Japanese tanabata festival happens to be Tochinokuni’s birthday as well!!
Tochinokuni celebrates his 20th birthday today! And Tochinokuni if you are reading this please know your special present is on the way from today! Please forgive me for being late!
Tochinokuni is a Sandame rikishi at Kasugano beya. His rank for the Nagoya basho is Sd East 28. It isn’t his highest rank as that was Sd west 25 in Kyushu last year! But he is back on track and moving up… hope to see him in Makushita very soon!!
Tochinokuni is from Utsunomiya City in Tochigi prefecture. Utsunomiya isn’t so far from where I live here and it is famous for delicious gyoza!! I love Utsunomiya!!!
I first met Tochinokuni here in Iruma at a Koenkai lunch. One week a year the Kasugano beya comes to Iruma where I am an Iruma Koenkai member. They do training for a week and stay at a local community center less than 10 minutes from my house. Then once during the week they invite the koenkai members to have chanko lunch or dinner with them. I was lucky to meet Tochinokuni in 2006. He was just 18 years old at that time! He is a couple of years older now but he hasn’t changed too much as you can see from the above pictures!
Good Luck in Nagoya!! Tomomi, Kazuko & I waiting for your Makushita debut!!!!