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Re: Sumo-ML (fwd)





On Fri, 23 Jul 1993, Peter Kaub wrote:

> This is a message from Steve that I thought I would forward (I hope you
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 10:19:20 EDT
> From: "Steve E. Kissel" <sek@space.mit.edu>

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> By the way, for those interested, Juryo was won by Tatsuhikari
> (12-3).  This fellow has been recently sent down from the
> bif league - I know he was once maegahira 12.

Well done Tatsuhikari!  As I mentioned earlier, one of my poster
children.  Anyone know how the ex-teacher did (Was Narimatsu, but
changed his name to something else which I can't remember - something-
nohana (Tomonohana??) )?

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> names have some story to tell.  I was curious to see how
> foreign sumo wrestlers might be named since in Japan generally
> foreign names are spelled using kana, but this wouldn't seem
> proper for a rikishi name.
> 
> The most well known foreign sumo rikishi are of course Konishiki,
> Akebono and Musashimaru.  Looking at the banzuke one finds other

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Just a thought which occured to me after reading Steve's post.  Does
anyone know if the Hawaiian wrestlers have ever changed names?  I know
that Akebono did some kind of Kanji alteration when he got to Ozeki,
but I never quite understood it (explanations from the informed
welcome).  I have never heard of them being called anything else,
but I am willing to be corrected.