Re: Musashimaru to be a naturalized Japanese?

["Douglass Scott" <dscott@trillium.soe.umich.edu>]

In message <9410171911.AA00449@kaleida.com> Masumi Abe writes:
> There is a rumor that Musashigawa Oyakata bought Toshiyori Meiseki
> (Toshiyori Kabu) "Ohnaruto" for Musashimaru for his retirement. 

[choki]

If he
> decide to stay in Sumo community, he needs to find a future 
"okamisan",
> probably a Japanese. Okaminan is like a mother to all young 
rikishi, and it
> is hard to imagine other than Japanese "okamisan".

then again, a couple of years ago, it was hard to imagine a gaijin 
yokozuna...