Re: Sumo pix: Tochiazuma, Kitanofuji dohyo iri

["Rowan Klein" <rowanchan@hotmail.com>]

they came through on the digest list, but not on the main list.



From: Achim Pawelczyk <sumo@achimp.de>
>To: "Sumo Mailing List" <sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu>
>Subject: Sumo pix: Tochiazuma, Kitanofuji dohyo iri
>Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 13:36:05 +0100
>
>Yesterday may 3 posts didn't come thru. Another try.
>
>After the police now Tochiazuma was train station chief for a day
>http://www.minaminippon.co.jp/2000picup/2001/12/picup_20011205_17.htm
>
>
>Old: Kitanofuji dohyo-iri
>http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/sports/dec/o20011204_20.htm
>
>The old Kokonoe trio plans to do a kanreki dohyo-iri when Mr. Kitanofuji
>turns 60 in March next year.
>Former yokozuna Kitanofuji as the former Kokonoe-oyakata educated the
>yokozuna Chiyonofuji (now Kokonoe) and Hokutoumi (now Hakkaku). The two
>will be tachi-mochi and tsuyu-harai at the ceremony.
>
>My first stay in Japan just fell into the time of the peak of the Kokonoe
>dominance.
>This impression in mind it seems plausible for Kitanofuji to have a (age
>60=)kanreki dohyo-iri, even though
>not all yokozuna do it, especially not those who have left the sumo kyokai
>already.
>
>
>Akinomaki
>
>-- sumo@achimp.de (Japanese encoding as well)
>-- http:/www.achimp.de/sumoe.htm
>-- a chimp on sumo
>


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