different between yobidashi vs hyoshigi

English

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

yobidashi (plural yobidashi)

(sumo) Any of the functionaries whose tasks include building the dohyo, making announcements, singing the shikona of each rikishi and advising them of preparation time.

From Japanese ???.

hyoshigi (plural hyoshigi)

(sumo) One of the wooden sticks that are clapped by the yobidashi to draw the spectator's attention.
- 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage 1999, p. 247:
  I put the glasses down and found that my heart was beating fast, thumping with an accelerating sound like that of the hyoshigi which I had last heard in that sombre vaporous gallery in the Wallace Collection.

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