Re: [SUMO] extremely sad news

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

Daishoho Oyakata
Former Komusubi Daishoho
Birth Name: MURATA, Masami
Age: 32
Heya: Tatsunami-beya
Highest Rank: East Komusubi
Total Basho in Maku(no)uchi: 34
Maku(no)uchi Records: 222W - 261L - 27A
Sansho: Kanto-sho twice
From: Toyohira-ku, Sapporo
High School: Hokkai H.S., Sapporo
College: Nihon University
First Basho: Hatsu-basho (January), 1990
First Rank: Makushita Tsukedashi (at the bottom of Makushita)
First Juryo: Hatsu-basho (January), 1991
* First "former collegiate" Sekitori from Hokkaido
First Maku(no)uchi: Nagoya-basho (July), 1991
First Sanyaku: Hatsu-basho (January), 1993
Second Sanyaku: Nagoya-basho (July), 1996
Last Maku(no)uchi: Haru-basho (March), 1997

October 3, 1999: hair cutting ceremony
December 4, 1999: the last day of his life

Tatsunami-beya
3-26-2 Ryogoku
Sumida-ku, Tokyo

Planned Funeral: at Sapporo
Date: undetermined

-Toshiyori Masumiriki


Masumi Abe wrote:

> Former Komusubi Daishoho has just passed away in the morning of
> December 4, 1999. He was from Sapporo where I was born and grew up.
> He went to Hokkai High School where my nephew went also. At his
> hair-cutting ceremony, he was determined to beat the beast called
> pancreatic cancer, but he was beaten this time in his last bout. He was
> not considered as a stronger rikishi from Nihon University, but he
> became one of the better rikishi among ex Nichidai rikishi.
>
> -Toshiyori Masumiriki
>
> --
> *********************************************************
> * Masumi Abe (aka Masumiriki / Imanonami)
> * mailto: abe@accesscom.com
> * WWW: http://www.accesscom.com/~abe
> * from Sapporo through Tokyo to Palo Alto, California
> *********************************************************
> Imagine, all the people living for today...living life in peace...
> sharing all the world...You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not the only
> one.
> I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. (John
> Lennon)

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*********************************************************
* Masumi Abe (aka Masumiriki / Imanonami)
* mailto: abe@accesscom.com
* WWW: http://www.accesscom.com/~abe
* from Sapporo through Tokyo to Palo Alto, California
*********************************************************
Imagine, all the people living for today...living life in peace...
sharing all the world...You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not the only
one.
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. (John
Lennon)