[sumo] Ichinoya- intai!!

[Jeanne Hedge]

Moti <kintamayama at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Oldest active rikishi Ichinoya will be retiring at the end of the basho. He is getting married.
>Today was his 1001st bout on the dohyo. He will be Takasago-beya's manager. He won hos 517th match 
>today. "I always dreamed of going on the dohyo, and I'm happy I did that more than a 1000 times. I 
>want to prove that the older you get, the stronger you get. to tell the truth, I'd have liked to 
>become a sekitori, but that's not going to happen, right??", he said. He hasn't officially 
>announced when he is retiring, but he wants to have his final bout and retire after the basho, it 
>is being said. He will be marrying a 40 year old editor of a magazine whom he met three years ago. 
>She is being called "Mrs. A".. He proposed to her in January and will marry her next February. "We 
>feel good with each other, and we'd like kids", he said.

It's nice that he chose to retire with a KK and on his own terms :)

I know he won't be the one in charge of everything, and I don't think a heya manager is a coach, so what does he do? (or what is one with this position called in Japanese, so I can look it up?)


Regards,
Jeanne Hedge