Re: Another question

[Stephen Forrest <sforrest@husc.harvard.edu>]

Abe-san:

	A non-native speaker has only books and imperfect memory to rely
on, so forgive me if I'm out of the loop on this, but I had always thought
the gyoji were saying "hakke-yoi", as in "looking good!", literally the
"auguries are good" -- being a reference to I-ching/Eki-kyou type of
divination (cf. hakke-oki, hakke-mi).  Koujien offers this as a lexical 
entry, but with no source/etymology.  Even if it was true for Edo-era 
sumo, is it perhaps outdated now?
	By the way, add my father to your list of people delighted to have
received the sumo video. Thanks again for your generous efforts. 
Cheers,
	Steve Forrest

On Wed, 15 Feb 1995, Masumi Abe wrote:

> Patrick:
> 
> There are two types of gyoji calling during sumo match.
> 
> "nokotta" or "nokotta nokotta": 
>         used when rikishi are in action
>         "keep trying, still in the match"
>         noko-ru means to stay in 
> 
> "hakki yoi (hakke yoi)" or "yoi hakki yoi" or "hakki yoi yoi":
>         used when rikishi are still
>         "try harder, more actively"
>         hakki = hatsu + ki, yoi = you
>         hatsu means to generate
>         ki means (mental) energy
>         you means to raise
> 
> -Masumi
> 
> Patrick Mathieu 3q*  4:28 PM 2/15/95 +00002kI
> 
uAnother question
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> >Abe-san:
> >
> >During 
> >a match, the gyoji watches the rikishi and yells something that 
> >sounds like "tadaGA!...tadaGA!"  He only yells if the rikishi are 
> >moving and not when they are resting on each other.  What does he 
> >yell, and what does it mean? 
> >
> >Thank you in advance.
> >
> >Patrick Mathieu
> 
>