<div dir="ltr">Interesting Jeff, thanks.<div><br></div><div>Can anyone explain this excerpt: "...

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px">quickly working his way to</span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px"> sekiwake</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px">, the first of the three top </span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px">san’yaku</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px"> ranks, and then to </span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px">ōzeki..."</em><div><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px"><br></em></div><div><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.01px">Kodaiyama</em></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:58 PM Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Sent from my iPhone</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite" dir="auto"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01215/" target="_blank">https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01215/</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Wow!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Gaijingai</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent from my iPhone</span><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Best regards,<div>Jeffrey Anderson</div><div><br></div><div>For of all sad words of tongue or pen,</div><div>The saddest are these:</div><div>It might have been.</div><div>- John Greenleaf Whittier</div></div></div>
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