[sumo] Ichinoya's new position

[Lynn Matsuoka]

Yes, you are right, just as , say, Kotonowaka zeki was training the rikishi
at Keiko long before he actually became Oyakata.
L.


On 12/1/07 9:55 AM, "Kuramarujo" <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 18:53 -0500, Lynn Matsuoka wrote:
> 
>> Usually the man in this position takes care of the day to day business
>> of running the heya, organizing the rikishi and tending to their
>> problems, greeting  or screening visitors and making sure they are
>> taken care of according to their importance to the heya,  scheduling
>> activities, IE- from who cleans the kitchen this week to  organizing
>> the Senshuraku parties, to the logistics of organizing the  heya¹s
>> rikishi for jungyo. And  a lot more.
> 
> That's probably what he's already been doing for years.  Now he'll get
> paid for it.   :-)