[sumo] Funeral at Ekoin this morning

[Doreen Simmons]

I made one small mistake: the Yotsuman-jaya started in the Edo period 
but it was taken over by the Ichikawa family in mid-Meiji. For anybody 
interested in Japanese culture, at least two sons-in-law were adopted 
to keep the family name going. Chaya are commonly owned by women and 
passed on to daughters. And while Japanese don't go in for adopting 
babies much, a son-in-law is very commonly adopted by a family without 
sons

Doreen off to work -- with a final comment on the current big topic: in 
cases like this, if some of us don't join in, it doesn't necessarily 
mean that we agree or disagree. Silence may have many explanations.

On 2007/07/31, at 23:07, Angie Brisse wrote:

>
> Thanks for this, Doreen.  Like lots of the folks on this list, I'm not 
> only interested in sumo but interested in Japanese culture as well, 
> and it's interesting to read about the quiet dignity in which these 
> procedings were held.  That was interesting and moving.
>
Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp