[sumo] Asashoryu's latest 'doings'

[Sumocypher at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/25/2008 7:28:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
itsulon at wavecable.com writes:

ayama  just posted this on SF:

Well, life is stronger than fiction, it  appears. Asa may be in some  
trouble again, as this story is for  real. Yomiuri Houchi is  
definitely on an anti-Asa crusade lately.  This time they're running a  
story on what he was wearing at the  Honolulu airport before he left  
to return to Japan. He was wearing a  pale blue Hawaiian aloha shirt  
and short white pants, with sandals.  When a photographer approached  
and took a picture, he shouted at him  "What are you taking pictures  
of?? Give me your business card!".  After receiving the business card,  
he continued: " Erase the picture  you took!!". He was apparently  
worried these pictures would be made  public , since the Kyokai dress  
code is "kimono in public". "My  kimono is in my bag, and I'll be  
changing into it on the plane. Take  the picture at Kansai Airport  
when I arrive!", he  explained/demanded.
He was quite aggravated upon arrival. When a reporter  approached him  
after he landed at Kansai Airport, he shouted: "Die,  you idiot!!".  
After that, he kept quite and disappeared into a  waiting car that  
whisked him off to the Takasago beya lodgings in  Osaka. A bewildered  
Chief of the Sumo educational guidance office  Isenoumi Oyakata, upon  
hearing this, (tattle tales..) said, "I don't  know the circumstances  
so I cannot comment".
Houchi sums it up by  calling him the "rowdy Yokozuna", as it has been  
doing lately, and  hints that this ain't no aloha-shirt wearin'  
laughing  matter.

Shomishuu


Forgive me for yet another stupid question - why is his being seen in  
civvies while not in Japan, not on an official mission or not during a tourney  such 
a terrible thing? Is he supposed to go swimming with his kimono on? I  
remember pictures of all the rikishi in Hawaii without kimonos on at various  times, 
so what's the big deal?
 
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