[sumo] Kimenryu -- Asashoryu's tsukebito ... and more irrelevent questions

[Joe Kuroda]

My guess is they have some relation to Tomozuna beya
(Kaio's heya) or Kaio's Supporters club in Kyushu. 

They only show up after Makuuchi bouts in progress and
ALWAYS leave right after Kaio's bout.

As far as I know they never stay for Asashoryu's bout.

--- Jim Sharp <asojima1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The geisha have been showing up for a couple
> consecutive days at the Kyushu basho since at least
> the early 70's when I started watching sumo.  They
> always inhabit the same row.  I assume they are
> guests of or connected to one of the local
> teahouses.  Another one of those long sumo
> traditions.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Larry Piper <piper at psicorp.com>

> ......
> 
>       Yet one more question.  On day 6 there was a
> row of what 
> looked like geisha nuns sitting about six rows up
> from the dohyo. 
>   You could see them behind the gyoji before the
> matches (does he 
> face north so that they would be in the south
> stands?  My sense 
> of direction isn't always organized properly). 
> Whatever, they 
> were all in black kimono with white trim and looked
> a bit 
> reminiscent of the old-fashioned nuns of my youth
> (except of 
> course they had geisha make up and hair styles). 
> There were 
> about a dozen of them and they all left after Kaio
> won his bout 
> (praise be).  Who were they?
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
>       larry p
> 
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