My husband is napping at the moment. When he awakens he will record the current week's televised sumo highlights from Fukuoka, thank you NHK Broadcasting, and we will have a marvellous evening catching up with the latest tournament bouts and results. I will be interested to see who, if anyone, has had to drop out of this month's tourney due to injuries from the last one in September. I have not seen as many terrible falls off the dohyo in one tournament as there were in that one. A number of the referees sitting on the floor at the bottom of the ring were flattened by falling wrestlers, as were quite a few of the ring side audience members. Sometime I would love to return to Japan for a basho, but at the moment ring side seats for a single evening are $541 each, with the less expensive seats going for $264 each. Yaaaaaah....not this time, hahaha. For your money you do get the extra added thrill of giant falling men landing within inches of your person if you are ring side and also the full Shinto rites and rituals display, from which sumo grew out of a few centuries ago, prior to each match. It is one long evening of fighting and rituals and incredible refereeing. Some day perhaps....watching the bouts on tv it seems that many of the people sitting ring side on the floor are quite thrilled to be risking a squashing by nearly naked 400 pound men! haha Honoured, even!!
My main entertainment today and for the rest of the week will be medical appointments and board meetings and housework...and I can live with that quite happily.
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