[sumo] All-Japan 1-day elimination tournament

[Mario Maiwald]

> Basically for names (especially title names that were
> given to you) and places, if you take it as "of", you
> won't be too far away.  It's just more formal way of
> saying the same thing.
> 
> Regarding "maku-uchi" and "maku-no-uchi", "maku" means
> "curtain or drape" and "uchi" means "inside". So a
> formal way of saying it is "Inside of the Curtain" or "Maku-no-uchi".
> 
> Incidentally those who may not familiar with how the
> term "Makuuchi" came about, it traces back its history
> to the Edo Era when a sumo tournament was held for a
> shogun or regional warlord, top rank rikishis were
> allowed to sit inside the draped area where the dohyo
> was located and the guests sat while the rest of lower
> or inexperienced or amateur rikishis sat outside the
> draped enclosure.
> 
> So the top ranking rikishis were inside the Maku while
> the rest were Maku-shita (in this case "shita" means
> below or lower).


I might think that the curtain attached to the roof above the dohyo would be
related to the meaning as well - symbolically that is...


marionoumi