Shikona--first names

[osumo3@native.usc.edu (Luigi Manna)]

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|From: Richard Webb <webb@phys3.physics.wsu.edu>
|Subject: Shikona--first names
|Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
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|Someone asked earlier (I think it was here) about the first names
|of the shikona used by the rikishi.  I was reading (as best I could
|in a Japanese sumo magazine) the banzuke for this basho and it
|listed both first and last names of the shikona.  It turns out that
|for the Japanese rikishi, their first name is simply their true
|first names.  The Americans all have first names that are Japanese
|names (the only one I can remember right now is the previously
|mentioned Akebono Tarou).  Interestingly, Jose Flores full shikona
|is HoshiANDESu HOSE.  I guess his oyakata is really big on
|Hoshiandesu keeping his identity as an Argentinian.  Because
|HoshiTANGO is not in the Juryo, I couldn't find him on the banzuke
|so I didn't check up on him.
|
|Now for a basic question I really should know.  I have noticed that
|Akebono now has those odd things dangling from his belt in his
|Kesho-Mawashi, as well as a large braided cord about his waist.  In
|other photos I've seen of Yokozuna, it appears to me that these are
|part of the trappings that come with being a Yokozuna.  Is that
|correct?  Also, is it a Yokozuna think to do that cool dance he
|does?
|
|Finally, an earlier post asked about the attire of the rikishi when
|they came to America.  When Konishiki threw out the first pitch at
|the SF Giants game, he was wearing a kimono.  However, this sumo
|magazine showed many photos of rikishi wearing more traditional
|western clothing (i.e., Wakanohana and Takanohana wearing shorts
|and T-s on a golfing expedition, Kyoukudozan wearing swimming
|trunks and picking up on some white ladies at a yacht club, and
|even one rikishi doing his version of syncronized swimming, while
|another poor rikishi was wearing a tie-dyed tank top and those
|funny weight-lifter pants with velcro waistbands and funny colors).
|It also appeared that they all were given T-shirts as a promotional
|item, with all of them coming in one size (sumo size, I assume).
|For most of the rikishi this looked fine on them, but poor
|Kyoukudozan's shirt was so large on him that the holes for the
|armpits extended all the way out past his elbows.  I would hate to
|see how Mainoumi looked in one of those things.
|
|
|Richard Webb
|webb@phys3.physics.wsu.edu
|
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