Re: [SUMO lite] Gyoji names and work schedule

[jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp (Doreen Simmons)]

At 18:35 98.4.7 +0200, achimp@t-online.de wrote:
>The gyoji names, like the oyakata names seem to be a fixed set, to be
>changed on promotion.
>At least the names of the gyoji with juryo and above license look like
>this, especially the two top names, Kimura Shonosuke and Shikimori Inosuke,
>which are rather titles of rank like yokozuna and ozeki.

I don't have too much time or energy to answer (besides being employed in
four regular jobs, I am an Anglican chorister, and Holy Week is a busy
time) but will try to answer a few of these points.

>What about the other names, are the top 22 (1996) of the gyoji with juryo+
>license really a closed set ?
>Are there always 22 of them ?
>Is the total number of gyoji always 45 ?

Yes, but there isn't a license. It's just a matter of promotion.

 (megasnip)
>The rest of say 800 Rikishi ranked below, with only 7 bouts in a basho for
>makushita and below (even less for maezumo, they need three wins to be
>allowed into Ozumo), not 15 like the sekitori, makes about (7 x 800/2)/15,
>say 184 bouts a day.
>If the total number of gyoji is 45, for the lower ranked 23 gyoji this
>makes 8 for each of them. Quite a difference in work schedule.

But you are not considering that the number of bouts per gyoji per day
varies with the rank of the gyoji.  It is not a simple matter of taking all
the below-juryo bouts and dividing them by the number of gyoji. The
Jonokuchi-kaku gyoji has more bouts to officiate than the Jonidan-kaku
gyoji.... etc.  (The same apppies to the yobidashi who call the bouts.)

This, as I have said many times in my articles, is based on the ancient
principle that the person with the least expereince should be given the
greatest opportunity to increase his experience!

 

 Doreen Simmons in sumoland, Tokyo        jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp 

 Only a mediocre person is always at his best-
                                                    Somerset Maugham