Re: Banzuke release and secrecy questions.

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

At 7:54 +0900 4/8/01, TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa wrote:
>[Quoted from Doreen Simmons]
>Date:Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:56:38 +0900
>Subject:Re: Banzuke release and secrecy questions.
>
> >All the calligraphy is done by the one man,


>There are also the cases it is done by the 2 mans.

Mr. Kageyama: Can you give a specific example? I asked Kimura Yodo (now 
Shikimori Inosuke 31st), the man who calligraphed the official banzuke from 
1985 to January 2000,  and he said definitely that he alone wrote all the 
names.  I am always happy to learn something I didn't know, but  I'd like 
specifics. I have already said that the banzuke format is prepared by a 
second man, and I have also said that more than one can work on the 
ita-banzuke.  But I understand that, in normal circumstances, the names on 
the official banzuke are written by the one gyoji who is assigned to that 
work.

> >>> Then the gyoji (apperently only one) writes the banzuke four times
>>>> increased, as in ancient times still by brush. This takes about
>>>> (snip)
>>
>>more looking-up than the man who does the US commentaries. That 'four
>>times' is a very rough figure indeed.
>Is "four times" so rough? Althogh to be precise, the area of
>"Moto-gaki" is about three point four times larger than that of
>published banduke...

I know. I personally think that "four times" is quite a lot different from 
"3.4 times".

Note to the native speakers: I think I've covered all bases this time :-}





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