[sumo] Asashoryu RIGHT YOU ARE

[Lynn Matsuoka <artist@aloha.net>]

On 10/9/03 11:47 PM, "Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Khishigbaatar Sosorbaram" <khishgee@gmx.net>
> To: "Bench Sumo" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>;
> Subject: Re: [sumo] Asashoryu
> 
> 
>> In Mongolian sumo, sumyabazar is one of the biggest rikishiis...
> 
> =====
> 
> That would be Mongolian 'WRESTLING', rather than "SUMO", even though there
> is some sort of pre-historic link between the two. "Grappling" contests are
> generically called "wrestling". SUMO is a form of wrestling, but don't call
> a RIKISHI a wrestler. He won't like that.
> 
> Just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts!
> 
> [EndPost by "Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp>]


YES, The Sumo association told me personally years ago that I was NOT to use
the term "wrestler"... that  they were to be referred to as RIKISHI. And I
was to inform everyone else.

Then, while talking with Kyokushuzan last month, when I slipped and said
"Mongolian sumo" he very quickly and pointedly corrected me, saying there is
NO Mongolian sumo, that is it Mongolian Wrestling. SO there it is Ma'm, the
facts confirmed from the horses mouths... ( an old American expression, I am
not calling them horses.)

Lynn

[EndPost by Lynn Matsuoka <artist@aloha.net>]