Re: Yobidashi and towel

[achimp@t-online.de (Achim Pawelczyk)]

At 9:51 Uhr 6.4.1998, Doreen Simmons wrote:
>Hi all! Skip this if you don't like trivia.

Now even to myself I am beginning to become a nuisance. I think when
banzuke will come in three weeks, the list will return to normal.

>Fortunately I still had the recording of my Day 8
>of the Haru Basho that I hadn't checked yet, so was able to look at the
>final few bouts.

I looked at the Aki Basho recordings of last year, because JSTV had given
away presents: the about one hour of makunouchi every day on air was
unscrambled nearly the whole Basho.

>In the case of a man who has to return to sit beside the judge, as soon as
>he gets down, a young yobidashi (different from the one sitting on duty at
>the salt and water corner) comes up to the corner, takes the kensho bundle
>from his right hand and the sagari from his left, and returns up the
>hanamichi to the tsukebito. I didn't see it, but he must have already taken
>the towel.  On that day, Taisuke took Wakanohana's kensho and Yutaro took
>Takanonami's.

>In the case of the musubi-no-ichiban, Akebono walked out immediately the
>bout was over, carrying his kensho in his right hand and his sagari in his
>left.

Can it be that Akebono has two of those pink towels with the yobidashi ?
I saw him sitting down after his bout to wait for the "musubi no ichiban",
the yobidashi handed the whole bundle with towel to a tsukebito near by,
who carried everything out - any kind of variation can be seen.
Then the yobidashi had another pink towel on his lid, which he went to
present to the sitting yokozuna, maybe asking "is this yours, too ?", but
Akebono refused then. Two minutes later though Akebono could be seen with a
pink towel in his hands while still waiting.

There is still a lot to find out about towels, maybe it is like with the
hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy (was again on TV here, nothing compared to
the radio version), the towel is the one item.

I found out that I could only concentrate on 3 hours of Sumo a day to check
on video (using fast forward a lot). Then I began to look at the trifles at
the edge of the screen for a while to look back on the main action from
time to time.
This way even the shikiri waiting time for a yokozuna bout is packed with
action and nearly too short to see it all.

Akinomaki

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