[sumo] [spoiler] Kotooushuu diet

[artist at aloha.net]

WOW to KOTOOSHIU-   whom I have been talking with and encouraging,  and
drawing since he was in Juryo.... It is heartwarming.

However,
This cheese and rice  diet stuff is all very amusing,  but after certain
people spent years through the 70s and 80s trying to convince  the sumo guys
to eat a healthier diet, and finally seeing success with greater longevity
and healthier rikishi, this kind of thing can lead them back to early
coronaries and excess ( I mean Excess)  obesity.

Konishiki gained too much weight by eating 4 bowls or more of rice heaped
with mayonnaise, ( I know that  as one of my sons was his katsugi fundoshi*
at that time and served it to him). Most if us know he spent years
unsuccessfully trying to undo that.

 *  Sumo word of the day;  I would be really in interested in knowing who
out there knows what that very old sumo term means. One  doesn¹t hear it at
all these days. ( Murray and Katrina- even if you do know- unfair to tell.)


Lynn Matsuoka
The sumo artist and writer
www.traditions.jp





On 5/25/08 4:36 AM, "Jim Bitgood" <Jimbit2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> That is reminiscent of the Baltimore Orioles player several years ago
> who was hitting a lot of home runs one season. The press always
> looking for an angle, asked him what he was eating for breakfast. He
> said ate Fruit Loops cereal for breakfast. The stores in Maryland
> couldn't keep enough Fruit Loops on their shelves for a while after
> that. Very strange!
> Personally, many years ago, we used to go into a small restaurant in
> Fussa-Machi and order rice and french fries.
> 
> At 02:55 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>> Also mentioned in the English commentary...
>> Apparently, Kotooushuu finds eating large quantities of rice
>> unappealing unless he covers it with lots of cheese.  Is this a way
>> for him to gain weight? Or just a personal preference? The
>> commentators, speculating about the ways this basho might change
>> sumo in the future, wonder if rice with cheese will become a popular
>> new dish.  Japan has been known to have a weakness for fads, so who
>> knows.  I wonder if this is the kind of eccentricity which for
>> Kotooushuu would be called a brilliant innovation but if it were
>> Asashouryuu it would be called outrageous behavior. I don't know...
>> as far as I'm concerned, it depends on the type of cheese...
> 
>          Jim
>          "Chitose-Taikai"
>         
> 
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