Re: Back on track :-)

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

Scott & Masami:

This is a very good question.
At the moment, I don't have any "official" answer.

But I could give you a hint.

 Traditionally, a Makushita rikishi from a heya which
most dominant yokozuna belongs to, performed yumitori.
The reason is that the yumitori is supposed to be done
by the winner of the last match, and the Makushita
rikishi's performance of yumitori is because he is doing
it in the place of the winner of the last match, or 
representing the winner.

 Makushita rikishi are not allowed to wear Oicho hair
style or kesho-mawashi in usual situation, but they are
allowed to wear Oicho when they play sumo against
juryo rikishi or when they perform yumitori for the 
winner of last match of the day. Since makushita
rikishi could not participate Juryo dohyo-iri, even if
he is about to be involved in a match against Juryo
rikishi, the only time Makushita rikishi could wear
kesho-mawashi is for yumitori.

 From these facts, I guess Sumo Kyokai (probably 
Shimpan-bu) asks the shisho who has the best yokozuna, 
and both Oyakata and Yokozuna decide who will perform
yumitori, and probably from yokozuna's tsukebito.

 In past, there were a few sekitori yumitori rikishi.
One of the highest ranked yumitori rikishi was 
Maegashira Ohtayama, who owns and operate a chanko
restaurant named after his shikona, near Ikuta (?) station
in Kawasaki (?). When I visited his restaurant about 
three years ago, I enjoyed his Takasago-beya style chanko
which is miso-based.

 One of many sumo artifacts he displays in his restaurant
is yumitori bow. It is very impressive one.

-Masumiriki

Scott & Masami Light wrote:
> 
> Who picks the rikishi for the Yumitori-shiki? and
> who usually performs it?  i.e what ranking of the rikishi?
> 
> Speaking of food anybody had Chanko Nabe lately?
> 
> Later,
> 
> Scott Light
> lightsms@texas.net
> 
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