Re: Takasago/Wakamatsu Beya question.

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

At 1:27 AM +0000 8/2/02, Rowan Klein wrote:
>With the merger of Wakamatsu and Takasago heyas, I was wondering on how 
>the naming of new rikishi would go.
>
>Most Wakamatsu have a shikona starting with Asa..... , where as the 
>Takasago heya didn't follow such naming practices so much. Will new 
>rikishi get a Asa... name, or will that be abandoned?
>
>Anyone have any information?

I have no inside information, but as it's normally the master who decides, 
and as the new Takasago oyakata has a penchant for using part of his own 
shikona (as many others do) we may assume that the "Asa" prefixing will 
continue.
~Doreen Simmons
      <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>~