Re: kanreki dohyo-iri question

["Nashinokawa" <nashinokawa@parbrook.free-online.co.uk>]

>
> I was just wondering....
>
> > For those that don't know, a Kanreki Dohyo-iri
> > is when a former yokozuna has reached his 60th birthday, he does a
dohyo-iri
> > wearing a red mawashi, with two active yokozuna acting as tachi-mochi
and
> > tsuyu-harai.
>
> What if there are not enough active yokozuna?
>
> Manekineko
>

The above is incorrct in two regards:

1. It is a red "tsuna" rather than Mawashi that is worn.  The mawashi will
be a set (of three) of the former yokozuna who is celebrating his 60th
birthday.

2. They tachi-mochi and tsuyu-harai can be any present or former rikishi.
However they are usually (read virtually always) Yokozuna, either present or
former.

For example when the former Futagoyama (ex-Wakanohana-I) did this he was
flanked by two former yokozuna, both of which were his deshi (Takanosato and
Wakanohana-II). Both the former Yokozuna wore standard white tsuna over the
appropriate mawashi.

Cheers

Nashinokawa