Re: Sansho winner (was: Brown Happicoat Folks)

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

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Date:Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:22:40 +0900
Subject:Re: Sansho winner (was:  Brown Happicoat Folks)

>>Dewanohana. His grip was much the same as Hokuten'yu's.
>
>Oh, how I agree! When the 3rd Dewanohana got a maemitsu (hand on the 
>front of the belt) grip with his right hand, there were very few men 
>who could avoid a yorikiri.
>
Yes, he could do the powerful dasinage as well at that time. But on 
video he told that he had so strong power of upper half of the body 
that he sometimes lost by uttyari.

>Many thanks for this list. I have been so busy today that I have had 
>no time to check it against my own list which has men from all 
>universities listed chronologically.
>
Though I don't know whether you have already known the web site below 
(Japanese language), it may help you if you have a time to view.

"Sumo wrestlers from colleges"
http://home.interlink.or.jp/~egashi/sumo.html

>This is news to me! How fascinating! Am I right in assuming that he 
>never made it to sekitori rank, since he is not listed otherwise?
>
I don't know the answer but his highest rank was Makusita 30.

>I had been told that Dewanohana 3 was the first Nichidai man to go to 
>a heya not in the Hanakago group (which creamed off the best because 
>that early Hanakago oyakata was training the Nichidai Sumo Club). Can 
>you enlighten me (on list or privately) on how you know about this 
>connection?
>
Main materials I refered to are as follows:
1) The web site "Sumo wrestlers from colleges" I mentioned
2) The series "Tosiyori myouseki no daidai" on the magazine "Sumo"

>In the case of the most recent Dewanohana, he joined Dewanoumi-beya 
>because his uncle, the 2nd  Dewanohana, had already been there; he 
>got up to maegashira 13.
>
I heard they are cousins even though the one is much older than the 
other. There was the source on page 153 of the 1994/10 issue of the 
magazine "Sumo".

>A strong link is also possession of the Dekiyama myoseki; the 33rd 
>yokozuna held it; so did Dewanohana 2, and now his nephew has it too.
>
When was the period that Dewanohana 2 held Dekiyama?

>In between times there was a very charming old man, now dead, 
>and I don't recall his shikona offhand.
>
I think the old man was probably Sionoumi.

The users (not always holders) of Dekiyama are as follows (from 
Musasiyama):
10th Musasiyama   (1939-1943)
11th Fujinosato   (1943-1947)
12th Sikainami    (1947-1950)
13th Sionoumi     (1951-1983)
14th Kurohimeyama (1983-1988)
15th Dewanohana   (1988-)

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TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa