Shozaburo Kimura

Japanese: 木村庄三郎 - きむらしょうざぶろう
Shozaburo Kimura

...The first retired in 1893 (Kansei 5), called himself Shikimori Kagyu, and wrote the book "Sumo Kakure-un-kai" (Sumo Incognito Gaiden), which conveyed the secrets of sumo. From this time on, there were two Edo gyoji families, Kimura and Shikimori, but in 1886, when Kimura Seido changed his name to Shikimori Onichiro, the distinction between the two families disappeared, and in 1911, Kimura Shozaburo took on the names of the 10th Inosuke and then the 17th Shonosuke. Since then, this form of promotion has become common, and Inosuke continues to exist today as the tachigyoji, second only to Shonosuke. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kimura Shozaburo" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…初代は93年(寛政5)引退,式守蝸牛と名のり,相撲道の極意を伝える《相撲隠雲解》の著作がある。このころより江戸行司は木村,式守の2家となったが,1886年木村誠道が式守鬼一郎に改めてから,両家の区別がなくなり,1911年木村庄三郎が10代伊之助,さらに17代庄之助を襲名。以後はこの昇進形式が多く,現在も庄之助に次ぐ立行司として存続している。…

※「木村庄三郎」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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