Re: kanreki dohyo-iri question

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 12:19 +0100 3/2/00, Jelena Macan wrote:
> 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?

They use ozeki, of course; and so on down the line. I

Incidentally I'm really sorry this thread has come up just now <g>, as I'd
used it in my March Kansai Time Out column, which has a long lead time; I
sent it off on the 2nd, and the research and the idea for using it were
really all my own work!
Doreen in sumoland

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