Re: Wajima

[mabe@netcom.com (Masumi Abe)]

Shou:

You are absolutely right. Takanohana and Wajima were promoted to Ozeki
simultanioously on September 27, 1972.

		Takanohana	Wajima
Jan. 1948			born
Feb. 1950	born
May  1965	enter Ozumo
Mar. 1968	Juryo
Nov. 1968	Makuuchi
Jan. 1970			enter Ozumo at Makushita
May  1970			Juryo
Sep. 1970	Sanyaku
Jan. 1971			Makuuchi
Jan. 1972			Sanyaku
Nov. 1972	Ozeki		Ozeki
Jul. 1973			Yokozuna
Jan. 1981	Retired
Mar. 1981			Retired

I need to get back the source, but it must be either Takanohana was
Makuuchi rikishi and Wajima was in Makushita, or Takanohanawas Sanyaku
and Wajima was in Juryo. My impression was that it happened when 
Takanohana was way up there and Wajima was way down there. That the
distance between them impressed me with Ozeki and Juryo. It was totally
my mistake.

Shou-san, thank you for correcting my misinformation.
I've done it before, and I'm pretty sure I will do that again. 
Whenever I find otherwise, I will correct the misinformation.
-Masumiriki
> 
> 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
>