[sumo] Re: [sumo)A dark story in sumo/Wajima

[Lynn Matsuoka]

Yes,Scott, this is absolutely true.
Wajima was finally tossed when the Yakuza representative presented their
demand to the Kyokai for the cash value of Wajima's share. They were
informed that only Sumo Kyokai personnel could own or trade this.

What is boggling is that after many failed attempts at doing anything
else, he started appearing around Sumo practices with various Oyakata a
few years ago, looking thin and balding, a pathetic shadow of  his former
renegade self. ( A couple  of vaguely nasty personal stories about him
from the 70's  are in my book, but nothing that would embarrass the
Kyokai).

Nothing to my knowledge ever seemed to come of his recent ghost~like re
appearance around sumo.... maybe Doreen has something on that.

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> Since we are trying to keep to the facts, let's not forget that Wajima
> was not banished from the Kyokai for living in his bachelor pad.  He
> was allowed to continue.  Nor was he banished from the Kyokai after
> his wife tried to kill herself.  He was demoted.
>
> Wajima's banishment, if I remember correctly, was due to his fatal sin
> of putting up his share in the Kyokai as collateral to certain Yakuza
> members for a loan, which was then called.
>
> If there is anything that trumps xenophobia, it is putting Kyokai
> shares in jeopardy.  That is a gross violation of written Kyokai rules.
>
> Sukubidubidu
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp>:
>
>> Neither of us was there -- but I understood that Futahagoro was having
>> a _very_ serious talk with his master and the chief of his Koenkai,
>> with okamisan by the door. The yokozuna (who I entirely agree was
>> promoted before he was ready, and you have more details on this than I
>> have) is reported to have got up and started storming out of the room.
>> The master's wife simply tried to hold him back (as he risked
>> permanently alienating this most influential supporter) and he shrugged
>> her off -- with the results exactly as said.
>>
>> FWIW, Doreen, surfacing briefly.
>>
>> PS Remember how, when yokozuna Wajima was performing badly, the Kyokai
>> ordered his master to get him back to his room in the heya (he had set
>> himself up in a luxury bachelor pad, contrary to the rules); and of
>> course everybody knows how he was thrown out of the Kyokai and his
>> myoseki confiscated later, for a gross breach of the rules. Surely
>> relevant to the current brouhaha? --ah but, silly me, Wajima was
>> Japanese, and we are only interested in stories that make the Kyokai
>> look xenophobic. ;-}
>>
>> .
>> On 2010/02/05, at 23:37, Lynn Matsuoka wrote (about Futahagoro):
>>
>>> . One  day , as the wife  was verbally badgering him
>>> about something, he walked away. She grabbed his arm, as if to hold him
>>> back ( just imagine!) as  Futahaguro was walking away from her. He
>>> simply
>>> shrugged her off, and she was flung to the floor. Futahaguro can NOT be
>>> blamed for that, not knowing his own strength in a simple shrug. SHE
>>> should have known you do not put your hands on  a Yokozuna uninvited,
>>> and
>>> f'godssake, he was monstrous in size next to her... what WAS she
>>> thinking?
>>> Well, again he was the victim, excoriated for "hitting the oyakata's
>>> wife"... totally bogus.
>>>
>>
>> Doreen Simmons
>>  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp
>>
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