Re: Limited day 15 (final) results!

[The Brown Bottle <ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

Re: Foreign Sumo Wrestler's Names.

They always looked exactly the same as the Japanese wrestler's names to me.
Unless there's some strange rule I'm unaware of. 

Akebono had a single-kanji name meaning 'Dawn' or 'Daybreak', which hadn't
changed from when he first entered the top grade of Sumo, and I didn't notice
that the Kanji had altered the last time I saw Japanese newspaper clippings(*).
I think I would notice as I used to live in "Akebono-Chou" (effectively
Akebono 'suburb' of Toyohashi city), and it was exactly the same Kanji, so
I'm rather familiar with it, jouyou kanji or not.

(*) After Ozeki-hood.

My limited knowledge of selection of Kanji names suggests that "Konishiki"
is about as stereotyped a name as you can get. Apart from "Ko" being the 
Kanji for "small" or "little", which doesn't quite apply. I've seen 
the Kanji for "Musashimaru" but don't remember exactly what the "Musashi"
was, and don't remember noticing anything really unusual about it.

Cheers,

Ross-c