Although the Grand Champion Kagamisato's defeat by Kuninobori featured the upset of the fourth day of the current tournament, the other expectations were fairly well met.
    Nayoroiwa, the oldest of all the Sumo wrestlers is still without a single win up to date inspite of the big cheers he is receiving from public for his unremitting efforts. Observers believe, however, that his retirement is due.

The results of the main events of the day were as follows:
Matsunobori beat Nariyama
Wakanohana beat Hajimayama
Ouchiyama beat Shinobuyama
Tochinishiki beat Orochigata
Dewanishiki beat Mitsuneyama
Azumafuji beat Futatsuryu
Kuninobori beat Kagamisato
Chiyonoyama beat Kotogahama
Yoshibayama beat Tokitsuyama

    I entered the stadium and was puzzled! Here I expected to enter a wrestling arena and instead found myself at the opera.
    There was no ring for fighting but rather a mound of pounded earth that was a cross between a theater in the round and a Noh stage without the entrance bridge. Instead of seats, it was surrounded by boxes. floored with tatami as in the Noh theaters of Kyoto.
    Above all, there were no wrestlers in sight, just some fellow in a picturesque Kabuki costume who stood on the stage, reading a score and singing away in a fine operatic voice.
    I remarked to Junzo, my Japanese companion, that we had come into the wrong theater, but, he smilingly assured me that all was right. "That isn't a stage, it is a Sumo ring and the 'singer' is merely announcing the oncoming wrestlers in the time-honored fashion," he assured me.
    The score he was reading was a fan he holds in front of him as he recites. I was told this is probably to reflect the sound backwards so the people in back of might hear the names. Later I came to my own conclusion: as most of the people at the fights eat and drink heartily - probably including this announcer - he really holds the fan up to his face to block the Sake fumes from knocking out the people in the expensive seats in the front row.

(To Be Continued).