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On the Japan Foundation's online film festival JFF Theater, the documentary "Sumodo –The Successors of the Samurai" is available via stream until Sept., 30th. https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/movie/sumodo/ For watching, free registration is necessary. I've seen it before and highly recommend it: It shows trainings and bout scenes, sound bites from rikishi and other people in the sumo world, as well as slices of everyday life in a heya. We see Goeido, injured but still strong, while the sequences with Ryuden and his then fiancee may be a piecec of historical interest. The film comes with a content warning concerning alcohol and nudity. While we indeed see people consuming alcohol, the degree of nudity is within the usual in pro sumo.

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Nevrtheless just the right stuff for me after a more-than-usually chaotic working day.

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This brings back memories. I haven't listened to Honegger's third Symphony for years, but it used to impress me thoroughly. The rest of this sunday evening will be devoted to renew my encounter with this overwhelming piecec of music.

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Only now I have found this thread, thanks to you all. So inspiring! You may try out this little piece of lively orchestra music by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), a widely underrated composer IMHO. While listening, I often imagine a corresponding animation video showing a rugby match in a nostalgic style (like in "Fantasia"). As far as I am informed, there is nothing like that yet.

A few days before each basho we see vids of workers constructing the dohyo, flattening the clay and adjusting the tawara. Is it only this upper layer which is rebuilt each time?

Hi everyone, after spending some time reading here in the forum now I signed in at last. I am from Germany, and back in the nineties I watched sumo on TV with my dad. My favourite rikishi was Wakanohana, though I was impressed by the whole atmosphere of the events. In the following years I somehow lost contact to the stuff, but any random mention in a film or a magazine reminded me what a cool sport it was. At the beginning of the pandemic I began to rediscover sumo for myself, along with a growing interest in Japanese culture. I hope one day I'll visit the place. I do appreciate the wealth of enthusiasm and knowledege here on this platform and I am happy I found it. Looking forward to learn!