{"id":9398,"date":"2012-04-26T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9398"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:43:46","slug":"sumo-ring-entering-ceremony-%e5%9c%9f%e4%bf%b5%e5%85%a5%e3%82%8a-or-dohyoiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/sumo-ring-entering-ceremony-%e5%9c%9f%e4%bf%b5%e5%85%a5%e3%82%8a-or-dohyoiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumo Ring Entering Ceremony (\u571f\u4ff5\u5165\u308a or dohyoiri)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010048sumo-ring-entering-ceremony-dohyo-iri.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010048sumo-ring-entering-ceremony-dohyo-iri-800x607.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo japan sumo wrestlers enter ring aprons\" title=\"\u571f\u4ff5\u5165\u308a sumo ring entering ceremony dohyo-iri\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010048sumo-ring-entering-ceremony-dohyo-iri-800x607.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010048sumo-ring-entering-ceremony-dohyo-iri-250x189.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010048sumo-ring-entering-ceremony-dohyo-iri.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the May Sumo Tournament just over a week away from beginning, my random desktop background picked this photo for me (and you) today. Notice the rikishi with the green apron (keshomawashi or \u5316\u7ca7\u56de\u3057) in the back left. This is Kakuryu (back in 2009), who was just promoted (2012) to Ozeki after nearly winning the March Tournament. Ozeki is the second highest rank in Sumo. <\/p>\n<p>After the tournament in which I took today&#8217;s pic (September 2009) Kakuryu (\u9db4\u7adc) was promoted to Sekiwake, the rank just below Ozeki. Since then Kakuryu has bounced around between the Sekiwake, Komusubi, and Maegashira ranks. Perhaps he will be the next Yokozuna? He has defeated the only current Yokozuna, <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/hakuho\/>Hakuho<\/a>, in the last two tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the May Sumo Tournament just over a week away from beginning, my random desktop background picked this photo for me (and you) today. Notice the rikishi with the green apron (keshomawashi or \u5316\u7ca7\u56de\u3057) in the back left. This is Kakuryu (back in 2009), who was just promoted (2012) to Ozeki after nearly winning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9398\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}