RE: [SUMO] Quiz - June 1

["Da Kine Sumo E-zine & Web site from Kawika" <dakinesumo@hotmail.com>]

My guesses, using Josh's as a guideline.

From: "Joshua A. Reyer" <jreyer@grn.mmtr.or.jp>
>To: "Masumi Abe" <abe@accesscom.com>, "Sumo ML" 
><sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu>
>Subject: RE: [SUMO] Quiz - June 1
>Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:32:49 +0900
>
> > Q1: How many shiko do a rikishi perform for each match usually? If he
> > does right and lest, that will be counted as two.
>
>Let's see.  Come up on the dohyo, bow and do shiko to their corners.  1, 2.
>Come back to the center, and do shiko to their opponent. 1, 2.  It's almost
>like square dancing!  So, they do four.

I say 4 too!

>
> > Q2: Is there any specific order between right first and left first?
>
>Right leg up first, then left.

Nope, I think it is left first, in Japan we always do left first, IMHO, 
something to do with water over fire.

>
> > Q3: When and where does he do them?
>
>First the corner, then the shikiri-sen.

Same.

>
> > Q4: Which direction does he face when he perform shiko?
>
>Towards mukou-joumen. (South, I believe)

Isn't there two sumotori doing this?  So one is facing the other, so one is 
facing east and the other west?

>
> > Q5: How many shiko do a yokozuna perform during Yokozuna Dohyo-iri?
>
>Three.  1 right, 1 right, 1 left.

Three, yes.

>
> > Q6: When and where does he do them, and by what order (left or right)?
>
>Does one to the right, goes into the seri-agari, does another to the right,
>and then one to the left.
>
> > Q7: How about the shiko by Sanyaku Soroibumi? How many and by what
> > order?
>
>Hmmm...  I didn't see the last basho, so this is kinda fuzzy.  I *think*
>they do three; right, left, right.  But I'm not sure.
>

The face the shomen, all together, they do four.

>Josh Reyer
>
>


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