[sumo] Ichinoya's new position

[Jeanne Hedge]

Thanks to Lynn and Doreen for the information.

If I understood you both correctly, and assuming the okamisan isn't too involved, at a minimum a heya manager is in charge of organizing and scheduling pretty much everything except the actual recruiting and training of rikishi. Did I get this semi-correct? Sounds like a very responsible position to have.


Regards,
Jeanne Hedge

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:53:15 -0500
>From: Lynn Matsuoka <artist at aloha.net>  
>Subject: Re: [sumo] Ichinoya's new position  
>To: sumo at webtrek.com
>
> so what does he do?
>
>
>As Takasago-beya's manager, he  will be called the Heya Gashira, (  heya
>manager) , or ³kashira²  by the rikishi in his heya and people close to him.
>In this position , he is  privately hired by the Oyakata (shisho, or stable
>owner)  and not connected with  or paid by the Sumo association.
>
>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.
>
>If he is strictly in charge of the younger rikishi, he is called the
>wakaimono gashira, and attends to their needs and activities.
>
>He would carry more or less of these  responsibilities depending on whether
>or not there is an Okamisan (Shisho¹s wife) and how much the Okamisan is
>involved in the running of the heya.
>
>Lynn Matsuoka
>The Sumo Artist
>
>
>On 11/22/07 2:27 PM, "Jeanne Hedge" <jhedge at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
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