Re:Wajima

[Shoujirou.Mizutori@shogun.matfys.lth.se]

Masumiriki writes:

>While he was still in Juryo, he asked Ozeki Takanohana to go eating out. 
>This is also very extraordinary act for a Juryo rikishi.

Sorry, but I don't get it. If I remember correctly, Takanohana and
Wajima got promoted to Ozeki simultaniously. Actually, my memory, though
unreliable, tells me Takanohana is one or two years younger than Wajima.
It is said that former Futagoyama Oyakata used to inspire rivalry between
certain pair of his apprentices, and it was Wajima whom Takanohana was 
supposed to think archirival. (Wajima wasn't exactly Futagoyama's apprentice,
but Hanakabo-beya and Futagoyama-beya were close in such sense as is written
by Masumiriki bellow.)
So Takanohana might have been already in Makuuchi at that time, 
but I don't think he was Ozeki when Wajima was still in Juryo.
Can anyone supply the date of their promotion?

>He was a collegeate sumo champion while he was attending Nichidai, or
>Nihon University. Nichidai sumo club house and training center was right
>next to the original Hanakago-beya where Yokozuna Wakanohana-I used to
>belongs to. Hanakago-beya and Futagoyama-beya was called Asagaya group
>against the main stream and traditional Ryogoku group. Ozeki Takanohana 
>belonged to Futagoyama-beya and Wajima belonged to Hanakago-beya. And
>at the time they'd known each other for a while, already.
>

Shou