Hoshifransu 0 Posted December 9, 2001 Yesterday I watched a japanese movie dedicated to Sumo called "shiko funjatta" (1991) from a video tape I hired in a japanese shop in Paris. It talked about Sumo at University and the difficulties to find wrestlers because sometimes young people must make hard choices and choose Sumo and let down the other studies. This film is very comic too because at the end, they desperately need to find a wrestler to be opposed to another University (and to get a promotion) and this is a very fat lady (the one who already makes the cook for everybody) who makes it (with a lot of bandages to hide she's a woman). A very good foreign wrestler was recruited too : he comes from London, he's student, and he's strong and technical, and so he's a great hope for the University but the main problem is he doesn't want to be nude with a single mawashi wearing him because of his culture and that's a problem ! but finally he will make it ! Very interesting and comic movie dedicated to young Sumotori I watched yesterday. Try to import it, to watch it in your own country too ! So, I give the references again : shiko funjatta (1991) and it's directed by Daiei Kabushiki Gaisha (it's something like this, very difficult to translate some Kanji sometimes !) I talked to the Sumo Game Forum about this movie too but someone here could perhaps answer to me about one thing I learned during the movie : the lady who made the cook to the sumotori wanted to wash their mawashi too and they say mawashi must not be cleaned ! Oh dear ... Is it the truth ? or especially in this film ? Do a Sumo wrestler regularly change of mawashi because a mawashi must not be cleaned ? Is the mawashi-wash forbidden ? Why ? Why not ? Strange, isn't it ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted December 9, 2001 the lady who made the cook to the sumotori wanted to wash their mawashi too and they say mawashi must not be cleaned ! Oh dear ... Is it the truth ? or especially in this film ? Do a Sumo wrestler regularly change of mawashi because a mawashi must not be cleaned ? Is the mawashi-wash forbidden ? Why ? Why not ? Strange, isn't it ? The silken mawashi of the sekitori (shimekomi) is never washed as it would soften the cloth and allow the aite to have a better grip around it. Sekitori usually wear a single shimekomi for one year, I think. By the end of that time there must be some... how should I put this... braking marks. (Blush...) I'm not sure about toritekis' cotton mawashi. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted December 9, 2001 Speaking of shimekomi, you really need to see one unfolded once to realize how much cloth there actually is. Mutsukaori visited Naruto-beya last year and took few interesting photos. I made a small ad hoc page for them at my other domain. There's a good picture about Takanowaka's shimekomi left to dry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hoshifransu 0 Posted December 10, 2001 Thanx for your answers. So that's real : shimekomi is never washed ! Oh dear ... Oh dear ... If you could've looked at the lady's face in the movie when she realized it too ... That's like my face I've just put in the forum. A bit "blank" horrified I'm looking too !!! That's after I realized shimekomi must not be cleaned, surely ! :~-( Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
