Takatoriki's Wife?

[Stephen Allanson <sallanso@huachuca-sec1.army.mil>]

>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 09:05:47 MST
From: rehc@raquel.lanl.gov (Robert E. H. Clark)
>To: sumo@essspg.stat.ncsu.edu

Robert Clark said:
>
>I have been listening in on this group for a while.  There is
>a small number of sumo fans here at Los Alamos National Lab.
>We have one colleague whose wife is Japanese.  Her sister sends
>us video tapes of the tournaments, which we then pass around.
>This brings me to a question.  My Friend's wife says that
>during the New Year's tournament that it was announced that the
>wife of Takatoriki was killed in the Kobe earthquake.  Since her
>hearing is not perfect, it is possible that she misunderstood.
>I have not seen anything posted on this.  Has anyone else
>heard this?  It would seem to me that this would be a pretty
>big news item.  Thanks.
>
I watched most of the sumo on TV Japan here in Sierra Vista, Arizona and I 
heard that the family of Takatoriki, including his wife(???), were living in 
the Osaka area.  I do not remember hearing anything about the death of 
Takatoriki's wife.  My wife is Japanese and her mother was also visiting us 
during the last basho and the sumo was watched every day and they did not hear 
this either.  Since Takitoriki is married to Yokozuna Taiho's daughter (thanks 
to the info from Masumi-san) I am pretty sure there would have been an
anouncement made and that Takatoriki would have gone home.  But then again you
never can tell.

Cheers
Steve A.
Sierra Vista, Arizona