Nagoya 2022

[Kintamayama 44,162]

A full house will be allowed in Nagoya 2022, it was announced today. Same-day tickets will be sold as well.

Edited March 31, 2022 by Kintamayama

[Akinomaki 39,476]

The basho poster - quite boring IMO - looks like the design commission has new members as well

[Seiyashi 4,068]

They've gone back to turn of the millennium aesthetics, I see. 

[lackmaker 428]

And showing the eventual winner of this basho one way or another?

Edited May 19, 2022 by lackmaker

[Eikokurai 3,433]

56 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

The basho poster - quite boring IMO - looks like the design commission has new members as well

Not just boring, but bad with it. All those hands cut off and the random anonymous shoulders at the bottom left. Terrible cropping.

[hakutorizakura 581]

Aaah shoulders?!! I was quite confused first time I saw it, trying to put it in context with Teru/Takakeisho 

[Yamanashi 3,669]

9 hours ago, Eikokurai said:

Not just boring, but bad with it. All those hands cut off and the random anonymous shoulders at the bottom left. Terrible cropping.

 

3 hours ago, hakutorizakura said:

Aaah shoulders?!! I was quite confused first time I saw it, trying to put it in context with Teru/Takakeisho 

I think the shoulders belong to the same guy pushing Takakeisho with the disembodied left hand.  Apparently it's detachable and can be put on as an extension of the shoulder's right arm.  Since we can't identify this Superhero, I'm going to call him Gunbaihead.

[Seiyashi 4,068]

14 minutes ago, Yamanashi said:

 

I think the shoulders belong to the same guy pushing Takakeisho with the disembodied left hand.  Apparently it's detachable and can be put on as an extension of the shoulder's right arm.  Since we can't identify this Superhero, I'm going to call him Gunbaihead.

That's a really long arm...

Ok, I take back whatever complaints I had about the previous committee. PLEASE give us back those posters, they were at least interesting and pretty!

[Reonito 1,294]

Is that ... Kaisei?

[Katooshu 3,078]

Shimanoumi looks like he's inspecting Kaisei's nipple

Edited May 20, 2022 by Katooshu

[Yamanashi 3,669]

1 hour ago, Katooshu said:

Shimanoumi looks like he's inspecting Kaisei's nipple

If it's a breast cancer screening, he's checking out the wrong foreigner, IYKWIM.

[Akinomaki 39,476]

The gomen-fuda for Nagoya was put in place at the Aichi pref. gymnasium

the Nagoya team: Matsuchiyama (Bushuyama), Iwatomo (Kimurayama), chief Dewanoumi, Kumagatani (Tamaasuka), Chiganoura (Satoyama)

o  o

local NHK

vid

 

70-80 nobori for the basho are in production in Gifu

last year the place had produced about half of that

other news clip https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/72533

Edited June 22, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Old Shatterhand is dead 29]

Is there any information on when cheering will be allowed again? It would be nice to see life return to the sumo arenas as well as spectators.

[Seiyashi 4,068]

3 hours ago, Old Shatterhand is dead said:

Is there any information on when cheering will be allowed again? It would be nice to see life return to the sumo arenas as well as spectators.

It feels like there has been casual disobedience of the rules for a while now - the audience is audibly noisier.

[Old Shatterhand is dead 29]

3 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

It feels like there has been casual disobedience of the rules for a while now - the audience is audibly noisier.

yea noisier but still far away from this

 

[Seiyashi 4,068]

Well, definitely the zabutons won't be coming back. But yeah, the kakegoe is certainly to be missed.

[Akinomaki 39,476]

On 20/05/2022 at 00:19, Seiyashi said:

Ok, I take back whatever complaints I had about the previous committee. PLEASE give us back those posters, they were at least interesting and pretty!

The NSK reacted somehow, for the Kyushu basho they have started a poster design campaign https://poster.sumo.or.jp/

Outsourcing of the design, comes cheap for them - they provide a template, and this extremely boring example design

The new committee at least knows that they are inept and unable to produce something as good as the previous posters for Kyushu.

They'd like new ideas as well - the winner of this "design contest" will have the poster used, but no mention of what he gets for that use.

The last 5 Kyushu posters, 2016-19 and last year: https://poster.sumo.or.jp/PosterWorks

Edited June 24, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Seiyashi 4,068]

The past posters are actually pretty good, but they also seem to use pretty... I guess privileged photos are the term for it? It's hard imagining an ordinary fan coming up with anything as good without access to really good photos of their own.

[Tsuchinoninjin 1,244]

On 19/05/2022 at 07:05, Akinomaki said:

The basho poster - quite boring IMO - looks like the design commission has new members as well

I'm like 95% sure the Nagoya posters are designed by another group than the usual posters, going back for some years.

When the Kyokai put up their poster archive none of the Nagoya ones were there.

And for the Nagoya posters, this one is pretty good. They typically look like something you'd find on page 10 of a newspaper in between classified ads.

[Pitinosato 116]

On 20/05/2022 at 00:04, Yamanashi said:

 

I think the shoulders belong to the same guy pushing Takakeisho with the disembodied left hand.  Apparently it's detachable and can be put on as an extension of the shoulder's right arm.  Since we can't identify this Superhero, I'm going to call him Gunbaihead.

I guess it could be Wakatakakage's shoulder !?

[nelimw 80]

 

On 24/06/2022 at 07:48, Seiyashi said:

Well, definitely the zabutons won't be coming back. But yeah, the kakegoe is certainly to be missed.

Wait, the flying zabutons won't be coming back? Why is that?

[Seiyashi 4,068]

Just now, nelimw said:

 

Wait, the flying zabutons won't be coming back? Why is that?

At least in Kyūshū if I remember correctly, the zabuton in the masuseki are twofers - so 2x rectangular 1x2 rather than 4x square 1x1, so people can't throw it as easily. Even before COVID, zabuton were already a fairly serious injury risk because it's quite hefty, and obviously with COVID they're an infection risk. So that is probably a good habit to kick and not to have back when COVID-related measures are completely lifted, and the NSK could help it along by ordering that type of zabuton for all the basho venues if they haven't already done so or planned to do so.

[nelimw 80]

22 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

At least in Kyūshū if I remember correctly, the zabuton in the masuseki are twofers - so 2x rectangular 1x2 rather than 4x square 1x1, so people can't throw it as easily. Even before COVID, zabuton were already a fairly serious injury risk because it's quite hefty, and obviously with COVID they're an infection risk. So that is probably a good habit to kick and not to have back when COVID-related measures are completely lifted, and the NSK could help it along by ordering that type of zabuton for all the basho venues if they haven't already done so or planned to do so.

I see... thanks for the info! I think I would be pretty entertained watching a twofer flying through the air but I wonder what scenario would warrant such a fan response....

[Akinomaki 39,476]

It looks like we'll get Nishikifuji  as tsuyu-harai - with Midorifuji - as attendant for Terunofuji at the dohyo-iri. Apparently the yokozuna asked the new makuuchi to do it. https://www.sanspo.com/article/20220703-RZEA6AVJWRNN7NMJBNXU7IMBF4/

Nishikifuji has also experienced severe injury and is another one to get the trainer busy with caring for it.

 

[Seiyashi 4,068]

On 29/06/2022 at 01:02, nelimw said:

I see... thanks for the info! I think I would be pretty entertained watching a twofer flying through the air but I wonder what scenario would warrant such a fan response....

You'd have to coordinate with your box partner, that's for sure, and it mightn't get very far...

Just to put things into context, there is a picture of Asashōryū looking a bit discomfited in a zabuton storm when he was in one of the masuseki during a basho. Asashōryū is scared of flying zabuton - let that sink in.

Edited July 4, 2022 by Seiyashi