RE: Oyakata prerequisite

[Juhani Sirkiä <jsirkia@utu.fi>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keri Sibley [mailto:keris@frii.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 6:24 AM
> To: jsirkia@utu.fi; sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: Oyakata prerequisite
>
> I'm not sure I understand this statement.
>
> >
> >The kabu number is 105, 88 from Tokyo-Zumo and 17 from Osaka-Zumo. Then
> >there are the two ichidai-toshiyoris (one-generation toshiyori kabu) of
> >Kitanoumi and Taiho which will vanish when they reach the age of
> 65 years or
> >die before that (?). As a son-in-law of Taiho Takatoriki is
> probably poised
> >to take over Taiho-beya sooner or later.
> >
>  If Taiho toshiyori kabu vanishes with Taiho at age 65, Won't
> Taiho Beya go
> with it.  Won't T'riki have to come up with a different Toshiyori kabu in
> odrder to have his own heya?!?!?!

I bet you can tell English isn't my native language :-).

Ichidai-toshiyori as an independent kabu is tied to the man who possesses
it. Therefore Takatoriki - or whoever will succeed Taiho as a shisho, if
anyone - needs a kabu of his own.

The successor will inherit the heya and its rikishis but heya's name will
change to that of the successor's myoseki. Taiho-beya will vanish in name
only. If, say, Takatoriki, becomes, say, Otowayama Oyakata, and succeeds
Taiho, his father-in-law's Taiho-beya will become Otowayama-beya. (On a
somewhat unrelated note I seem to recall that this particular kabu is
reserved for Takanonami and currently on loan by Wakashoyo.)

Well, that's how I've understood ichidai-toshiyori. One better take my
impression with a Mitoizumi handful of salt, though... I hope someone with
less dubious record will confirm my impression on the subject :-).

Jussi aka Kitaseiya The Fevered

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