Re: [SUMO] extremely sad news

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

For those who want to know how Daishoho looked like when he was still active
as sekitori, please visit:
http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-t/database/rikishidata/daishoho_e.html

-Toshiyori Masumiriki

Masumi Abe wrote:

> 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)
>
> --
> *********************************************************
> * 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)