Re: Occupations (was Re: tsuki/oshi-zumo)

[ctwu@cs.nps.navy.mil (C. Thomas Wu)]

>Former Yokozuna Wajima (also former Hanakago Oyakata) is a general
>manager for an amateur football team in Japanese industrial league.
>He won yusho 14 times, only behind three great yokozuna of Taiho,
>Kitanoumi and Chiyonofuji. 
>The reason why he was kicked out of sumo community was because
>he used oyakata-kabu as security for borrowing money for his private
>business. 

He was also very controversial while being an active rikishi. He was, I
believe, the first rikishi from collegiate sumo who reached the high rank.
He kind of ignored many of sumo traditions and customs. He was criticized
quite a bit for riding around in his Lincoln Continental and staying in
hotel room during jungyo. So he was quite disliked already before becoming
oyakata.

--tom

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