Re: Banzuke release and secrecy questions.

[TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa <yk815103@fsinet.or.jp>]

[Quoted from]
Date:Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:57:09 +0900
Subject:Re: Banzuke release and secrecy questions.

>Mr. Kageyama: Can you give a specific example?
For example, Youdou calligraphed the divisions of below makusita from 
November 1983 when he and Syoujirou were the assistant and the main 
calligrapher respectively. On the banduke of January 2000, the 
divisions of below jonidan were calligraphed by Tosihiro.
You should read the page 152 in the February 2000 issue of the 
magazine "Sumo".

By the way, who is "Mr. Kageyama"? It seems to me that you wrote my 
name wrong on purpose. IF so, you should be careful of your expression 
because it is very unpleasant for me.

>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 believe what he said is ONLY "the general case for a period". 
I wrote other cases in previous mail with intention of describing that 
these are not all. Though my description might be insufficient, can 
you understand my intention?

>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.
As for Syoujirou and Youdou, it was normal case that both of them  
calligraphed banduke. "Normal circumstances" are not always same.

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TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa