Re: Azukari vs. Hikiwake

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

[Quoted from]
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 05:57:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Azukari vs. Hikiwake

>azukari: Azukari is what they would use back 
>before the torinaoshi came in vogue.  If a clear 
>winner couldn't be decided by mono-ii, then it 
>would become an azukari.  There were a number of 
>cases where even though a clear winner could be 
>seen, mono-ii's would lead to an azukari.  In 
>such a situation, it would go down as an azukari 
>in the hoshitori, but when it came time to 
>decide the banzuke, the match might be seen as a 
>full star or a half-star, as the case might be.
>
Those stars were called as "Kage-bosi" (hidden star).

>The author goes on to describe a very 
>interesting "azukari" match.  It was between 
>Yokozuna Azumafuji and Ozeki Yoshibayama.  
>
Actually the result of the bout is "hikiwake" in NSK's official 
hositori even though many of literatures treat it as "azukari".

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TAKAYAMA Kazuhisa