Re: [SUMO lite] Yobidashi names

[owner-sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu]

NHK Weekly "Sutera" is a weekly magazine filled with articles about NHK
programming. It publishes sumo special issues 6 times a year. January issue and
July issue have "heya-betsu Zen Sumo-Jin Mei-kan" or "List of All Sumo People
Based On Sumo Heya". The list have photoes, titles/ranks, civilian names,
birthdays, area they are from, former rank and shikona or dates of hatsu-dohyo
for each person in Sumo Kyokai except office clerks.

I subscribe only sumo issues of this magazine. From the front page to the back
page, it's all written in Japanese, but you could find a lot of photoes. Each
issue has a little over 100 pages.

-Toshiyori Masumiriki

Oh Sumo wrote:

> 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...

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