<div dir="auto">Moti<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best regards,<div>Jeffrey Anderson</div><div dir="auto">Gaijingai </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>For of all sad words of tongue or pen,</div><div>The saddest are these:</div><div>It might have been.</div><div>- John Greenleaf Whittier</div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Moti Dichne</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:niramiai@gmail.com">niramiai@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM<br>Subject: [Sumo news] - Kotozakura and song<br>To: Sumo Newsletter2 <<a href="mailto:sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com">sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">Kotozakura , who withdrew from Aki  due to a right knee injury, had 15 bouts against Yokozuna Oonosato at the Nishonoseki-ichimon rengo-keiko today.  Despite finishing with 3-12, he expressed a strong desire to enter Kyushu, saying, "I want to enter a basho when I can, I don't want to be kadoban*." In addition to an old injury to his left knee, he also had concerns about both knees, but laughed, "I think my balance has improved." His father and Oyakata Sadogatake said, "He never said a word about going kyujo. Judging from today's training, I think he'll be fine."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">* I wrote this song, influenced by Kotozakura:</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">"I want to enter a basho when I can,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">I  don't really want to be kadoban,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">It never was a part of my plan,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">Gotta prove that I'm a macho man,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">My father used to be a shinpan,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">He likes to listen to Steely Dan,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">So come and help me, mina-san,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">I don't really want to be kadoban!!"</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(53,60,65)">(Repeat 3 times, add salt to taste)</p>

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