Re: AW: [sumo] Ichinoya

["Stefan Gelow" <f95-sge@nada.kth.se>]

I have asked the list this several times and no one seems to know if there
ever was such a rule. It is something that is written in MOST English
language books on sumo (I have seen it in at least three books and on some
web pages) and it sometimes differs whether it says Sandanme or Makushita.
But since there have been rikishi at least since early 80s that never
reached Sandanme during long careers (I seem to recall Akiasahi never
reached Sandanme and have been in sumo for ages by now), it doesn´t seem as
that rule was in place when the books were written at least... I wonder if
this is all a sumo myth, or if there has been such a rule EVER. Or is it one
of those "two matta and you´re out" rules that exist but never ever have
actually been followed... If someone knows, I´m also interested of an
answer...

/Stefan Gelow



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thierry PERRAN" <thierry.perran@club-internet.fr>
To: "The Matt" <thompsma@colorado.edu>; <sashimaru@tachiai.net>
Cc: "Sumo ML" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [sumo] Ichinoya

> I thought there was a rule that forces rikishi to retire if they didn't
> reach makushita after 4-5 years of struggle. I guess this rule may deal
with
> sandame instead of makushita. Anybody knows something on this topic ?


[EndPost by "Stefan Gelow" <f95-sge@nada.kth.se>]