Gaijin Yokozuna : : A Biography of Chad Rowan / / Mark Panek.
At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawai'i for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan's national sport, sumo. But upon his arrival he was shocked less by the city crowds and the winter cold than by having to scrub toilets and answer to fifteen-year-ol...
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Panek, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Gaijin Yokozuna : A Biography of Chad Rowan / Mark Panek. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2006] ©2006 1 online resource (320 p.) : 20 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Name Reference List -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. A Big Mistake -- Chapter 2. Waimānalo Boy -- Chapter 3. The First Hawaiian -- Chapter 4. Professional At'lete -- Chapter 5. The Black Ship -- Chapter 6. The List -- Chapter 7. The Yokozuna -- Chapter 8. The Way of Sumo -- Chapter 9. The Promised Land -- Chapter 10. The Rest Is Up to Them -- Chapter 11. The Burden of the Tsuna -- Chapter 12. The Hardness of the Dohyō -- Chapter 13. Gaijin -- Chapter 14. Proving Them Wrong -- Chapter 15. Senshūraku -- Epilogue -- Biographer's Note -- Glossary -- Sources -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawai'i for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan's national sport, sumo. But upon his arrival he was shocked less by the city crowds and the winter cold than by having to scrub toilets and answer to fifteen-year-olds who had preceded him at the sumo beya. Rowan spoke no Japanese. Of Japanese culture, he knew only what little his father, a former tour bus driver in Hawai'i, had been able to tell him as they drove to the airport. And he had never before set foot in a sumo ring.Five years later, against the backdrop of rising U.S.-Japan economic tension, Rowan became the first gaijin (non-Japanese) to advance to sumo's top rank, yokozuna. His historic promotion was more a cultural accomplishment than an athletic one, since yokozuna are expected to embody highly prized Japanese values such as hard work, patience, strength, and hinkaku, a special kind of dignity thought to be available only to Japanese. He was promoted ahead of his two main rivals, the brothers Koji and Masaru Hanada, who had been raised in the sumo beya run by their father, the former sumo great Takanohana I. Perhaps the defining moment of the gaijin's unique success occurred at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, when Rowan, chosen to personify "Japanese" to one of the largest television audiences in history, performed a sacred sumo ritual at the opening ceremony.Gaijin Yokozuna chronicles the events leading to that improbable scene at Nagano and beyond, tracing Rowan's life from his Hawai'i upbringing to his 2001 retirement ceremony. Along the way it briefly examines the careers of two Hawai'i-born sumotori who paved the way for Rowan, Jesse Kuhaulua (Takamiyama) and Salevaa Atisanoe (Konishiki). The author shares stories from family members, coaches, friends, fellow sumo competitors, and of course Rowan himself, whom he accompanied on three Japan-wide exhibition tours. The work is further informed by volumes of secondary source material on sumo, Japanese culture, and local Hawai'i culture. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Sumo. Wrestlers United States Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824829414 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824838041 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824838041 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824838041/original |
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