Re: Sumo Photo: Waka dohyoiri another

[Achim Pawelczyk <achimp@herten.de>]

At 11:44 01.10.98 +0200, Achim Pawelczyk wrote:
>>Waka at the dohyoiri after his name got engraved (he did the last click) at
>>the Tomioka-Hachimangu-shrine, where all the yokozuna names are in stone.
>>The last ceremony when becoming a yokozuna.

>Also at http://www.xusxus.com/nusi/waka/1001top2.html

>another one (small and gone soon) at
>http://www.nikkansports.com/news/sports/sp-news.html

the same bigger and for longer
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/chuspo/1998/1001t2.htm
pict: http://www.chunichi.co.jp/chuspo/1998/image/1001g2.jpg

Another
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/suponichi/oldnews/9810/1001-sportsnews2.html
pic:
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/suponichi/oldnews/9810/pix/1001-sportsnews2.gif

The first dohyoiri of a new yokozuna at the Tomioka-Hachimangu for 209
years. The last were Tanikaze and Onogawa in 1789.

Akinomaki - the post basho season has begun

Achim Pawelczyk

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