Morning

I guess that means there's no chance for a revival of the butt pillow

I would say the shows know what audience they are for, and for that audience the silences aren't kept long and the Japanese terms are said together with their English translations. It's on NHK World after all, where many other shows for the same audience are shown and not on a dedicated Sumo Sports channel

Not only lots of stuff in a short time but also lots of nothing for quite a bit of time and you gotta say something during that as well.

Only if you assume that wifes, mothers, sisters, sujos and female sponsor representatives, etc wouldn't want to have a go at that hair or simply don't exist. Why shouldn't a departing rikishi have their final fight against their daughter. Like the London koen didn't have any female represantives of anything but they also sidestepped the issue completely with doing awards on the stage instead of the dohyo. And for mothers who really want a snip they make that hoopla with the platform at the side of the dohyo, with have seen that in danpatsushiki

The simple solution to this would be to roll a carpet onto the dohyo, so she wouldn't have to step onto the dohyo.

I find having to use a VPN annoying, cause it's a pita to target them on only a specific program or website, so you are constantly dealing with turning it on and off and other stuff breaking because that's region locked in the opposite direction or loading slow because it's now routed twice around the world. And even with Wireguard they are a pain to set up and you have to worry about security when the other end node is not under your control.

The awards including the trophy had Sakura petals in a wheel shape

I looked at tickets in Paris. They are so much more expensive than the London ones and the Royal Albert Hall simply beats the Paris venue in regards to ambient.

Well, the tsuridashi is spectacular to show off your strength and something you can only reasonably safely pull off at something like this, where your opponent will not fight the lift. I don't think the majority of the fights were intentionally scripted, rather they used the usual exhibition Gentlemen's Agreement like letting the yokozuna have the win and letting the winless guy have a win, and indeed not going at this in all the dangerous offensive and defensive full power that would be used during a basho.

No macaron, although a nearby shop could have helped them out with that. I would expect the macaron to make an appearance next year in Paris.

There's indeed quite a few in the audience who haven't gotten the intro from the previous day. Also, there's exactly one kensho envelope for the whole tournament. The rikishi are hanging it back to the yobidashi and then it gets handed out again for the next fight (unless the yobidashi forgets to hand it to the gyoji like happened yesterday) Also the Hello Kitty kensho banner is a lot higher quality than the rest

There are what, 82 kimarite? This koen has 100 fights, they should give us all kimarite, minus fusen and hansoku.

Apparently made on the spot with timber from England.

Thanks for the pictures. Soon, soon. I'm looking very much forward to it. I hope there's a souvenir shopa and that it hasn't been completely plundered till I'm there.

I have received all tickets, the event tickets arrived in September and the radio ticket earlier this week.