Day 5 report: Heartbreak across the board! All my favorites lost! But I did tell my wife before our first visit (day 3 of the Basho) that if we saw people throw their seat pads it would make my trip, and with Hosh’s loss that’s what we got! Shishi gets a lot of respect from the crowd as he looks so different and so big. I love that aspect of the culture here. They really show a lot of love to diversity. Ura’s loss was tough, but the crowd showed him a lot of love regardless. Everyone that was left undefeated lost on this day so that also stood out. Of course the moment of the day was Hosh losing. That was a crazy moment and the crowd was going wild. Grabbed a few souvenirs and said goodbye to Osaka and headed to Kyoto today. My wife started to get invested in the storylines and the event and said next time we should do ALL 15 days. I’m not even sure we will be back to Japan, but it was great to hear her start to get into it! Her favorite ended up being Asakoryu after it was all said and done. Great few days, and now we’ll be keeping up with the results via Tim’s posts. Thanks for all your hard work, Tim!
Thanks Dan, our official Sumo Stomp! field reporter.
I'm glad your wife enjoyed the matches, too. My favorite thing about sumo is that it's a sport my wife and I can watch together and equally enjoy. We're not unique, though! So many readers, and others I know, watch sumo with their spouse. I'm not sure what it is about this sport that facilitates that, but I love it.
Day 5 report: Heartbreak across the board! All my favorites lost! But I did tell my wife before our first visit (day 3 of the Basho) that if we saw people throw their seat pads it would make my trip, and with Hosh’s loss that’s what we got! Shishi gets a lot of respect from the crowd as he looks so different and so big. I love that aspect of the culture here. They really show a lot of love to diversity. Ura’s loss was tough, but the crowd showed him a lot of love regardless. Everyone that was left undefeated lost on this day so that also stood out. Of course the moment of the day was Hosh losing. That was a crazy moment and the crowd was going wild. Grabbed a few souvenirs and said goodbye to Osaka and headed to Kyoto today. My wife started to get invested in the storylines and the event and said next time we should do ALL 15 days. I’m not even sure we will be back to Japan, but it was great to hear her start to get into it! Her favorite ended up being Asakoryu after it was all said and done. Great few days, and now we’ll be keeping up with the results via Tim’s posts. Thanks for all your hard work, Tim!
Thanks Dan, our official Sumo Stomp! field reporter.
I'm glad your wife enjoyed the matches, too. My favorite thing about sumo is that it's a sport my wife and I can watch together and equally enjoy. We're not unique, though! So many readers, and others I know, watch sumo with their spouse. I'm not sure what it is about this sport that facilitates that, but I love it.
Thanks again for these field reports. Dan. I’ve really appreciated them.