Re: Natsu-basho Result & Nagoya-basho Prediction

[abe@kaleida.com (Masumi Abe)]

>> >[Masumi Abe:]
>> >Banzuke prediction for Nagoya-basho.
>> >
>> >East:                                   West:
>> >-----                                   -----
>> >
>> >Y   Takanohana  (O, 14-1, Yusho)        Y   Akebono     (Y, 10-2, 3 Yasumi)
>> >O   Musashimaru (O, 12-3, Jun-Yusho)    O   Takanonami  (O, 9-6)
>> >O   Wakanohana  (O, 15 Yasumi)
>> >S   Kotonishiki (SE, 9-6)               S   Musoyama    (SW, 9-6)
>> >K   Kaio        (KE, 8-7)               K   Terao       (KW, 8-7)
>> >                                        K   Takatoriki  (M1W, 9-6)
>> 
>> [Yugo Yodogawa]
>> I think Kaio and Terao will change places, since Terao got the Shukun-sho.

I don't know exacly, but I don't think Shukun-sho is nothing to do with
ranking for next basho. 8-7 within Komusubi will be treated just as 8-7, I
think. We'll see.
>
>And would Taka really be promoted above Akebono if he were to be made
>Yokozuna (I know the word is that he probably won't be promoted, but
>if he were, wouldn't he still be below Akebono, in the light of 
>Akebono's injury affecting his performance this basho)?

When 14-1 ozeki is promoted to yokozuna, I am pretty sure that he will be
ranked better than 10-win yokozuna, no matter what caused that 10-win
record.
>

>Thanks,
>
>        - Ian.
>
>PS. The following anecdote has nothing to do with sumo, but since I've
>    given up on s.c.j. I have nowhere else for it:
>
>    Many years ago, both my sister and  I did a short homestay in
>    Tochigi-ken. Recently my sister went back to visit this family,
>    and found that in the intervening years, the father of the family
>    had lost rather a lot of his head of hair. My sister mentioned
>    this to his sons and they suggested that this hair loss made him
>    look rather "hansamu". Initially, the father was rather pleased to
>    hear this, and preened himself a little, until his miscreant
>    offspring explained that the derivation of "hansamu" they had
>    in mind wasn't the English "handsome", but was instead made
>    up from Japanese words: "hanbun no han" and "samui no samu".
>    "Atama ga hanbun samui!" What a language :-)

That's funny. My father was "han-samu" in same way, and friends of mine
used to say my father looks like Yul Brinner (sp?). I thought Yul Brinner
was actually handsome. Or did they mean han-samu?

By the way, many females think Yul Brinner was very sexy. Too bad I did not
inherit my father's hansamu/handsome/sexy head, unlike my two brothers.
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