The annual morning sumo training on first day of GW

@ Shikoroyama stable.

http://www.terao.info/index.html

Akito(on the ring with a white loincloth) is only 14 years old.

He came all the way from Ibaragi prefecture

to join this special GW training camp. 

Really looking forward to seeing him

at Ryogoku Kokugikan in 6 years’ time !!!

I went to the retirement ceremony of Hōmashō

and cut his top-knot on the sumo ring at Ryogoku Kokugikan.

http://www.homasho.com/

He was an ideal model of beautiful sumo form and manners…