Re: Konishiki name (corr)

[Gochisozan <rpardoe@ibm.net>]

This may be stating the obvious (for Doreen and other Sumo experts), but the 17th yokozuna was Konishiki Yasokichi and associated with Takasago-beya.  This was back at the turn of the century (later 1800's, early 1900's).  I believe this Konishiki's honmyo (real name) was (if I read the kanji correctly) Iwai Yasokichi.  Was this the first that "Konishiki" and "Yasokichi" were associated together to form the shikona.

Certainly w/ a Yokozuna using the name, I can see Takasago-beya's claim to the name.  But as Doreen points out, how did it get to Takasago-beya? 

(For those who collected the nishiki-e cards when issued in 1997 - Card 196 is a nishiki-e of the Yokozuna Konishiki)


At 08:36 08/10/98 +0900, Doreen Simmons wrote:
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>So the shikona 'Konishiki Yasokichi' is not the property of the present
>Takasago oyakata as such. I haven't so far discovered how the previous
>Takasago was able to bestow the name upon Salevaa; there's a missing link
>here.