[sumo] All-Japan 1-day elimination tournament

O'Flaherty, Brian brian.o'flaherty at banctec.co.uk
Tue Oct 3 04:19:37 EDT 2006


>> For the first time in 25 years, a hiramaku winner-Ama. He is only the
>> third ever hiramaku rikishi to win this tournament. 
>
>	What's a hiramaku rikishi?


I had to google this because I'm now used to everyone else on here using and
being more familiar with the Japanese terms than I am.

Hiramaku technically means a non-sanyaku ranked rikishi.  Which in this case
means Maegashira but I suppose technically could mean a Juryo wrestler too.


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