Re: Konishiki name (corr)

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

If Sumo Kyokai and/or Takasago-beya does not allow "OUR" Konishiki to use
Konishiki name, my suggestion to him is to make his own Konishiki name with his
own combination of kanji characters.

For example, since he loves kids and kids love him, he could use kanji
character "ko"  from kodomo or children.

Another idea is to change his name Konishiki to Gonishiki, the abbreviation of
"Go! Konishiki" with the kanji character for "great," the same kanji for
Australian, also.

If you can read Japanese characters,
The first one with kanji "children" will be:

子錦

And Gonishiki will be:

豪錦

We could come up with many other Konishiki. Such as "foreign" Nishiki with:

胡錦

The beauty of Japanese writing is the flexibility of making many homophones.
And the Sumo Kyokai and Takasago-beya's claim of shikona Konishiki is the
combination of the specific kanji characters. As long as Konishiki avoids using
that specific characters, he could keep using Konishiki name.

Needless to say that the best solution for Konishiki and his fans are for
Konishiki to keep using the kanji combination he has been using as an active
rikishi, though.

-Toshiyori Masumiriki


Doreen Simmons wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Just a very quick note: I was doing some looking up yesterday and find that
> the original user of the shikona 'Konishiki' was NOT in Takasago-beya, but
> was a komusubi in Hatachiyama-beya (no connection with the new
> Hatachiyama-beya started by ex-ozeki Hokutenyu). On retirement he became
> Hatachiyama oyakata.  Hokutenyu bought the myoseki from Aonosato, who is
> now Tatsutagawa oyakata and in charge of the heya of that name.
>
> 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.
>
> But my main point remains; Sale was not the original bearer of the shikona
> and, even though he greatly enhanced its prestige, he does not have a right
> to use it. I would personally hope that the Kyokai is big about this,
> because it would be the best name for him to be known by. We all use it as
> a matter of course. More important, I can't imagine anyone else being given
> the shikona. He has made it his.
>
> Doreen in sumoland
>
>   A theory is something that clever people think up much later
>                                     to explain something that already works


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