Re: The Moose

[abe@kaleida.com (Masumi Abe)]

At  1:34 PM 9/30/94 -0700, Renee Heinbaugh wrote:
>Since he is about to become the greatest yokozuna in the postwar era, I think
>now would be an appropriate time to discuss Musoyama, 'The Moose'! 

In reality, it is too early to announce that he will be the greatest
yokozuna in the postwar era, but based on the hidden meaning in his name,
this could be done, in a sense.

His name, Musoyama, could be based on a Japanese word "tenka-muso". In this
case, "muso" means "second to none". The regular chinese character used for
"muso" is "none" or "mu". But Musashigawa Oyakata, or someone responsible,
used the character "mu" from Musashigawa. This character means samurai
warrier. Yama means mountain. The mountain which is "second-to-none" must
be Mount Fuji in Japan. Musashi from Musashigawa means usually Kanto Area,
particularly Western side of Kanto Area, but Musashi is also the name of
the most respected samurai warrier of all, who is the author of "Book of
Five Rings". Interesting enough, his real first name is Takehito, and Take
is the same character with "mu" of Musoyama and Musashi, "hito" means "a
man".

All in all, Musoyama has two hidden meanings, "the best warrier" and "Mt.
Fuji". You can tell the expectations aurrounding him, based on his shikona.

>What do we know about his history? Was he impressive in college? Did he used
>to be a bouncer?

Name: Takehito Oso
Birth Date: February 14, 1972
Birth Place: Mito-shi in Ibaragi Prefecture

His father, Mr. Masahito Oso, was a sumo player and represented his
prefecture in National Athletic Games (Kokutai), and currently Managing
Director of Ibaragi Sumo Kyokai, a local ammature sumo association.

When Takehito was a sinior at Mito Agricultural Highschool, he won a
national highschool sumo championship and received Koko-Yokozuna. (Koko
means highschool.) After the graduation he entered Senshu Univ. As a
freshman member of Senshu Sumo Club, he brought a National University Team
Sumo Championship to Senshu Univ. In 1992, he received the title of "Japan
Ammature Yokozuna" while he was a junior at Senshu Univ. Before completing
junior class, he decided to quit university and became a rikishi from
Musashigawa-beya.

He was ranked at the bottom of Makushita for Kyushu-basho in the same year,
and won Makushita Yosho with 7-0 record in his very first basho as a
professional sumo rikishi.

-Masumi

>Certainly no one can dispute his coming dominance. With a little more 
>experience under his mawashi, I don't know who will beat him. Has anyone got 
>a winning record against him so far?
>
>Regards,
>
>Adam Gordon
>Menlo Park, CA
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