<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>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: Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 11:58 AM<br>Subject: [Sumo news] - Meisei gets married<br>To: Sumo Newsletter2 <<a href="mailto:sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com">sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br>Juryo Meisei held his wedding ceremony today. <span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Inter,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"">700 guests at the "Hotel in Tokyo".</span><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Inter,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol""> </span><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Inter,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";box-sizing:border-box">"<span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(37,37,37)">It's a happy occasion. I was promoted earlier than Meisei  but he got married first," said Houshouryuu with a smile, congratulating him. Meisei and his wife </span></span><span style="font-family:Inter,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px">小夏</span><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Inter,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(37,37,37)"> (Konatsu?? Citrus fruit?) got married in February last year after dating for about a year and a half. However, Houshouryu said, "I was surprised. I didn't know." He said he found out when the two of them came to visit Tatsunami Oyakata, to pay his respects. "He's an older brother who taught me so much since I joined the sumo world. I was also his tsukebito. He's like a 'big brother.' I want to give him a present that's different from everyone else's," he said with respect and affection. When pressed about when he thought he might get married, he laughed and evaded the question, saying, "Don't worry about me."</span></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Inter,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol""><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(37,37,37)">Tatsunami Oyakata, Maysay and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachiko_Kobayashi" rel="external nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26,32,44);text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">Sachiko Kobayashi</a>, enka singer:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Inter,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol""><a href="https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/img/202602210001164-w1300_2.jpg" title="Enlarge image" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(23,126,201);text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent;outline:0px" target="_blank"><img alt="披露宴を行う明生（中央）を祝福する立浪親方（左）と小林幸子（撮影・中島郁夫）" width="999" src="https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/img/202602210001164-w1300_2.jpg" style="box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:bottom;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;max-width:100%;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;padding:0px;text-align:center"></a></p>

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