[SUMO lite] Yobidashi names - Sources for Info

["Pardoe, Richard (prdr)" <PRDR@chevron.com>]

Another source is the 97 Ozumo cards.  In addition to having cards for
makuuchi/juryo rikishi and the toshiyori (heya mochi) - there were cards
devoted to yobidashi and gyoji.  A nice picture of them on the front with
the name in Romaji as well as in Japanese.

I certainly noticed more of the yobidashi after I had a chance to see the
sumo cards.

R.Pardoe
Gochisozan

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> From: 	Oh Sumo[SMTP:OhSumo@aol.com]
> Sent: 	Thursday, April 09, 1998 3:11 PM
> To: 	sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
> Subject: 	Re:  Re: [SUMO lite] Yobidashi names
> 
> 
> Another way to find out yobidashi names, or any names of the men in the
> sumo
> world is that NHK and Van-Van both publish 'year books' once a year, NHK
> around July, Van-Van around Dec, that lists everyone, from oyakatas
> through
> rikishi through gyoji, yobidashi, toshiyori (and I probably am forgetting
> some
> category but you get the point), ANYWAY with patience you can find anyone
> and
> their name, and some other info.  And there's either furigana or a place
> to
> look up the furigana for the kanji.  Goes without saying that it's all in
> Japanese...
> 
> In a message dated 4/9/98 10:42:49 AM, jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp wrote:
> 
> >These are junior yobidashi (their duty, by the way, is called 'mizu-suke'
> -
> >'water-bucket') who have already done their duty of calling the bouts one
> >or two hours before. This public exposure is their first really exciting
> >job, the one that shows them and their families that they have really
> >arrived. But because they are young and unimportant, their names are not
> >announced - except in the English commentaries, when I am on - because I
> >know them all and I am delighted to tell the world who they are!
>