著者

生沼 芳弘

出版者

東海大学体育学部

雑誌

東海大学紀要 体育学部 (ISSN:03892026)

巻号頁・発行日

no.31, pp.19-29, 2001

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University graduates of professional sumo wrestlers increased rapidly during the past decade, and it came to occupy 6% of the whole of the wrestlers, 36% of the ranking sumo wrestlers (sekitori). This is about 5 times 10 years ago. The success rate that becomes the ranking sumo wrestler of the university graduates is very high with about 60%. Professional sport is considered a kind of show business by Japan, and there is history that it has thought about with money-making impure job. Therefore, the sumo wrestler hasn't been considered the occupation which the person who graduated from the university so far. But, an amateur regulation was stopped from the participation qualification of the Olympic Games in 1974 and the boundary of amateur disappeared with the professional. In other words, amateur collapsed, and a professional became a center as for sport. And, games where the amateur wrestler who graduated from the university did sumo wrestling decreased. A university graduate wrestler has the privilege of "makushita-tukedashi" at the time as the first ring, 77% of them are using this privilege. Professional Sumo Association raises a standard for this privilege and a university graduate wrestler is trying so that it starts from the rookie, too. This privilege threatens a sumo stable as a structure of rookie training school.