Re: Yokozuna Quiz

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My guesses.

From: "Nashinokawa" <nashinokawa@parbrook.free-online.co.uk>
>To: "sumo mailing list" <sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu>
>Subject: Yokozuna Quiz
>Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:53:22 +0100
>
>since we have been discussing Yokozuna's recently I thought I'd put 
>together
>the following quiz:
>
>1. What is the Yokozuna Hawser made from?

I know that there is sand it in.

>
>2. Who makes it?

The sumotori of the yokozuna's ichimon.


>
>3 How often does a yokozuna get a new one?

Everytime he returns to Tokyo from a non-Tokyo basho.  The thing gets dirty, 
even though his tsukebito handle it with white gloves.

>
>4. The rope is usally cut to fit. What happens to the excess and what is
>their peculiar reputed lucky property
>
>6. How do the two dohyo-iri styles differ, (both in performance and in the
>hawser) and what is the irony in their nomenclature.

The tsuna is tied differently, single loop in the back VS double loop in the 
back, and one style represents offense and defense (one hand out the other 
hand in) whereas the other style represents offense only (both hands out), 
and one style is supposedly bad luck, the offense only style.

>
>7. What are the zig-zag strips called and how many are there.

4?

>
>8. Who was the first modern yokozuna to perform the shiranui style and who
>is reputed to have taught him.
>
>9. What is to stop a new Yokozuna coming up with his own style.
>
>10. What would an early yokozuna be most surprised about if he looked at 
>the
>modern Yokozuna's hawser.

It is much bigger?

>
>11. Which family traditionally had the right to grant Yokozuna licences.

The Kimura family?  The family that ran the gyoji?

>
>12. Who is the only rikishi to have joined the precursor to the present 
>sumo
>association as a Yokozuna and how did he do it.
>
>13.  Where is the tradition of using a rope around a yokozuna said to have
>come from (note there are many stories to this -- so there are no correct
>answers in my view -- but it is a chance to look at the possiblities.)
>
>




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