Re: Koushou ?

[stevea@PrimeNet.Com (Steve Allanson)]

Masumi-san wrote:
>This is my understanding without consulting any written materials.
>
>You should remember the last application of Koushou. I think it was
>Wakanohana. He injured and it was ruled "Koushou". He stay away from
>matches rest of the basho and all next basho. After losing record of
>injured basho and skipping the next basho, when he came back, he was
>"kado-ban" ozeki. He needed to have a winning record to stay in Ozeki rank.
>That means that the record of basho he got injured was recorded as
>makekoshi, but the basho he skipped totally for his injury was not recorded
>as makekoshi.
>
>If this example was applied to the case of Musoyama and Kotonishiki, they
>will lose their Sanyaku position for Haru-basho. If they need to skip
>Harubasho for treatment and rehabilitation, they don't need to worry about
>further dropping in banzuke for Natsu-basho.
>
>-Masumi

Masumi-san,

As usual you are correct.  I looked in my past issues of Sumo World and
found that at the Kyushu basho Tokisunada was injured while at M-5 and in
the last basho he was at M-14.  Als at the Hatsu Basho last year Kushimaumi
was injured while at M-7 and in the next basho was at J-4.  So I guess the
rule is that with the absent matches included the rikishi is demoted for
the next basho.

Cheers,



        Steve Allanson

        Sierra Vista, Arizona
        stevea@primenet.com