March 27: Asashooooooouryuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

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May 26th 2008

Published: May 31st 2008

Japanese Vocabulary: yokozuna: the highest rank a sumo can achieve fundoshi: sumo thong thing yowai: weak higashi: east nishi: west chanko nabe: a type of nabe dish (hotpot dish) that is specific to sumos...it, along with rice and beer, seems to be the staple dish of their diet. Like all nabe, it consists of a broth in which items are simmered, but I think chanko nabe is particularly high in... Read Full Entry

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the stare down

after the sitting with arms like a bird, belly thumping, ground pounding, and salt throwing, they do a stare down...Asashoryuu is the master of this...

see?

even after his opponent is already finished staring, Asashoryu continues to stare intently forward as if he was looking right through his opponent the whole time. It's really intense. I bet he's really good at staring contest...and if he lost, he could just sit on you and squash you anyways...

the match

Sooooooo, after a bunch of times repeating all those rituatials, they actually have the match. The sumo's lunge at each other and either try to push the other out of the ring or knock him over. It lasts a matter of seconds usually.

Closing

after all is said and done, a closing ritual is performed by a sumo with a long thin stick and he does a little dance thing.

Christine and Hakuhou (cardboard cutout)

See? He never smiles.

dinner

The four of us at our favorite Izakaya, Souko, celebrating Christine's bday.

The bday girl!

2nd June 2008

Zach
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Haha I enjoyed bringing you into the world of heavy weight wedgies! Come next spring we can go back to Osaka and cheer on our boys! Oh, and it wouldn't hurt if you were a little nicer to the goofy energetic guy - he has feelings too!

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