Re: Sentoryu etc.

[Seelye Martin <seelye@beaver.ocean.washington.edu>]

	If I am remembering an article in Sumo World correctly, Henry
Miller was born at Yakota Air Force base outside of Tokyo, the son of a
Japanese mother and a black US father, an enlisted airman.  He was born at
the same time as the first moon landing, which accounts for the
"Armstrong" middle name.  He grew up in St Louis, and played high school
football, whereupon he wrecked his knees, and excluded a college football
career.  His wrecked knees, unfortunately, have accounted for his slow
rise in professional sumo (I believe that he came in at the same time as
Akebono).  My question is this:  is he the first rikishi from the US
outside of Hawaii?
Seelye Martin 

On Fri, 19 Aug 1994, Masumi Abe wrote:

> 
> Given Name: Henry A Miller
> Born: July 16, 1969 in Saint Luis
> Hatsu-Dohyo: July, 1988
> Size: 176.5 cm, 130 kg
> Sumo Type: Oshi (pushing)
> Nagoya-basho rank: Makushita Nishi 4-maime
> Nagoya-basho record: 5-2
> Total record (at the end of Nagoya-basho): 134 wins - 75 losses - 43 yasumi
> Blood Type: A
> 
> >
> His style is similar to Takatoriki, but his body is slitely smaller than
> Takatoriki and more muscular. Takatoriki is 180 cm 144 kg. With his size,
> this American wrestler is rather smaller than most of Japanese rikishi. He
> was very excited to play against juryo rikishi for the first time with
> wearing oh-ichou mage (hair style) only allowed to the rikishi play against
> Juryo and Makuuchi rikishi. Nagoya-basho was his first basho to play
> against juryo rikishi, and he won.
> In spite of his fine performance and his makushita rank, I don't think he
> will be promoted to juryo for the next basho. 
>
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