Natsu 2022

[Kintamayama 45,518]

The number of daily spectators allowed for May will be 9265, as opposed to the 5000 allowed in January. The chayas are expected to return to business as well.

Edited January 27, 2022 by Kintamayama

[Akinomaki 40,767]

On 27/01/2022 at 09:28, Kintamayama said:

The number of daily spectators allowed for May will be 9265, as opposed to the 5000 allowed in January. The chayas are expected to return to business as well.

Masu box seats from row 9 till the top row will have 2 persons in the 4 person masu, 3 person masu 1 person or in rows 8&9 2 persons, all other seats will be used at full capacity, there will be no tickets for the day on sale.

Fan-club pre-advanced sales lotteries will be from March 18th till 23rd and March 25th till 30th, lotteries for all from April 1st till 4th, advance sales start on Saturday, April 9th, 10a.m.

https://sumo.or.jp/Admission/ticket/May/seat/611/

There will be masu seats A on the first 8 weekdays with chanko as presents, 4 packages for one box with 4 persons

o

Also on sale:

for women only, 2 person masu C with a rose each presented by Kakuryu (used to be his present oyakata who was most popular doing it) and a chance to have a photo taken with him

for Magaki, 2 person masu C with just a photo taken with him

and 2 person masu C with a 1000 Yen coupon for the souvenir and food shops attached

 

I wonder if Japan will also allow foreigners in again by then. I wouldn't go though, if it's after being interned for 6 days in a hotel - and then the rest of two weeks in quarantine at your staying location, plus someone has to pick you up and take you there, if you can't use taxi or public transports, like in December/January for the Japanese nationals allowed back in.

At the moment the rules are less harsh, but most of the world is still banned from entry https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html

And if it is possible to fly will be another issue - from here the main route is via Siberia

[themistyseas 242]

17 minutes ago, Akinomaki said:

And if it is possible to fly will be another issue - from here the main route is via Siberia

Most airlines coming from anywhere other than Asia or the west coast of North America have rerouted, adding hours to the flight time. Assuming you're in Europe, those flights are rerouting via Alaska and northern Canada, which adds between 3 and 5 hours.

In any case, while it's not nice, it's probably a moot point because someone who's never seen sumo would have a better chance of winning Guess The Banzuke than any tourist has of getting into Japan without a quarantine in 2022.

[Seiyashi 4,108]

Poster and ticketing for Natsu 2022 out.

Whichever design house the NSK is collaborating with (or whoever is doing this in-house) has really got good ideas. The poster this time looks like a homage to traditional Buddhist mandala art (typically geometric circular or concentric designs representing various concepts such as the spheres of consciousness, planes of the world, etc).

The sekitori dohyō-iri, taken with a slightly panoramic angle (from the NHK roundup, perhaps?), comprises the circular elements, while the top 5 sekitori (Terunofuji, the three ōzeki, and Wakatakakage (a harbinger of things to come?)) fill out the image at the centre and corners. Bonus points for using the inner sides of the mizuhikimaku (the curtain hanging from the tsuriyane, black on the outside with the NSK's mon on it, but pink on the inside), that was already on the background of the dohyo-iri elements(!), to pad the image, giving the whole image hints of a lotus flower.

A very elegant, parsimonious, and neat composition when considering the elements, but unfortunately the relatively riotous colours of the keshō-mawashi make the end effect rather chaotic, despite only using 6 rikishi (the same three rikishi have been just rotated around the inner and outer rings). The effect feels somewhat similar to the poster with the attempted homage to the Tokyo Olympics poster, where the idea is there but the execution falls short.

As for ticketing, most of the masuseki have been sold out or is going fast, while chair seating remains relatively available.

PS: Also, should this thread perhaps be shifted to the Honbasho Talk subforum to fulfil the purpose of being the Natsu 2022-related thread?

Edited April 14, 2022 by Seiyashi

[themistyseas 242]

2 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

A very elegant, parsimonious, and neat composition when considering the elements, but unfortunately the relatively riotous colours of the keshō-mawashi make the end effect rather chaotic, despite only using 6 rikishi (the same three rikishi have been just rotated around the inner and outer rings). The effect feels somewhat similar to the poster with the attempted homage to the Tokyo Olympics poster, where the idea is there but the execution falls short.

Fully. The idea is incredible (and also reminds me of some of those old Beastie Boys videos with the fisheye lens) but I wonder if it could have been better executed as an illustration where the kesho-mawashi don't need to be exact replicas and the colour palette can be managed better.

They are always most of the way there when it comes towards making NSK branded merch (and I'd count this as merch given that they're advertising its availability at 7-11) to be really iconic and collectible but they seem to just miss when it comes to the final product. 

[Seiyashi 4,108]

9 minutes ago, themistyseas said:

Fully. The idea is incredible (and also reminds me of some of those old Beastie Boys videos with the fisheye lens) but I wonder if it could have been better executed as an illustration where the kesho-mawashi don't need to be exact replicas and the colour palette can be managed better.

They are always most of the way there when it comes towards making NSK branded merch (and I'd count this as merch given that they're advertising its availability at 7-11) to be really iconic and collectible but they seem to just miss when it comes to the final product. 

Agreed. There's a certain degree of technical competence to the composition as well, considering the four non-yokozuna have been positioned very cleverly to hide the "seams" of the circle and maintain the illusion of a panorama of rikishi, before you notice that it's the same rikishi repeated. 

[code_number3 708]

6 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

Poster and ticketing for Natsu 2022 out.

 

Damn, Akua’s Makibao kesho mawashi. Any info on that kesho mawashi?

[Gurowake 4,100]

5 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

Agreed. There's a certain degree of technical competence to the composition as well, considering the four non-yokozuna have been positioned very cleverly to hide the "seams" of the circle and maintain the illusion of a panorama of rikishi, before you notice that it's the same rikishi repeated. 

Who's the 4th non-Yokozuna?  I assume 3 are Ozeki.  I guess Wakatakakage?  I can't see the full poster on the preview and I'm not going to twitter.

[Seiyashi 4,108]

2 minutes ago, Gurowake said:

Who's the 4th non-Yokozuna?  I assume 3 are Ozeki.  I guess Wakatakakage?  I can't see the full poster on the preview and I'm not going to twitter.

Yep.

Edited April 13, 2022 by Seiyashi

[rhyen 1,846]

On 15/03/2022 at 23:03, Akinomaki said:

Masu box seats from row 9 till the top row will have 2 persons in the 4 person masu, 3 person masu 1 person or in rows 8&9 2 persons, all other seats will be used at full capacity, there will be no tickets for the day on sale.

Fan-club pre-advanced sales lotteries will be from March 18th till 23rd and March 25th till 30th, lotteries for all from April 1st till 4th, advance sales start on Saturday, April 9th, 10a.m.

https://sumo.or.jp/Admission/ticket/May/seat/611/

There will be masu seats A on the first 8 weekdays with chanko as presents, 4 packages for one box with 4 persons

o

Also on sale:

for women only, 2 person masu C with a rose each presented by Kakuryu (used to be his present oyakata who was most popular doing it) and a chance to have a photo taken with him

for Magaki, 2 person masu C with just a photo taken with him

and 2 person masu C with a 1000 Yen coupon for the souvenir and food shops attached

 

I wonder if Japan will also allow foreigners in again by then. I wouldn't go though, if it's after being interned for 6 days in a hotel - and then the rest of two weeks in quarantine at your staying location, plus someone has to pick you up and take you there, if you can't use taxi or public transports, like in December/January for the Japanese nationals allowed back in.

At the moment the rules are less harsh, but most of the world is still banned from entry https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html

And if it is possible to fly will be another issue - from here the main route is via Siberia

Have they discontinued the 15 days ticket packages for the chair seats?

[Akinomaki 40,767]

7 hours ago, rhyen said:

Have they discontinued the 15 days ticket packages for the chair seats?

These packages were never on sale on the sumo.pia site, and I think they were connected to the sale of tickets for the day - if those tickets get available again, so may the packages

[Itachiyama 119]

no day tickets yet right?

[Akinomaki 40,767]

37 minutes ago, Itachiyama said:

no day tickets yet right?

They had them in Osaka. Like at the Haru basho, for now they give "mitei", not decided yet, in the ticket informations.

[Akinomaki 40,767]

The gomen fuda for the basho has been put in place at the kokugikan

o 

[Akinomaki 40,767]

Just like for the Hatsu basho, the kokugikan museum has a special Hakuho exhibition, with some extra items and features: the chance to sit on the zabuton the rikishi sit on at the dohyo while waiting for the bout.

There also will again be talk events with oyakata, the full schedule will be announced on the museum page http://hochi.news/articles/20220422-OHT1T51236.html

[Akinomaki 40,767]

After last at the Hatsu basho 2020, there will be rikishi bento again on sale at the basho. Usually for yokozuna and ozeki, but this time only the Terunofuji bento in limited numbers, 2nd time for his bento after being ozeki 2015-17. The rikishi themselves chose the ingredients, the bento for Shodai and Mitakeumi still have to be developed, the 2 were promoted in Corona times. http://hochi.news/articles/20220426-OHT1T51198.html

[Akinomaki 40,767]

Dohyo making

o o o o

Oyakata on guard duty train for emergencies

o o o o

the dohyo matsuri will be streamed live tomorrow as usual

[Akinomaki 40,767]

Dohyo matsuri today and then the presentation of the yusho portraits for Mitakeumi and Wakatakakage

Edited May 7, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,767]

presentation of the yusho portraits for Mitakeumi and Wakatakakage

o oo o  o o

the next special Hakuho exhibition at the sumo museum

o o

with zabuton experience

o oo

Dohyo matsuri

o o o o o

oo 

Edited May 10, 2022 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,767]

On 14/04/2022 at 14:10, Akinomaki said:

On 14/04/2022 at 13:29, Itachiyama said:

no day tickets yet right?

They had them in Osaka. Like at the Haru basho, for now they give "mitei", not decided yet, in the ticket information.

A novelty: also the tickets for the day are sold at the 7/11 convenience stores now - no tickets are sold at the kokugikan https://www.sumo.or.jp/Admission/ticket/May/purchase/611/#tojitu

[Akinomaki 40,767]

Eating and drinking is also allowed again at the seats - slowly sumo is getting back to normal: now at 87%=9265 seats allowed (maybe they'll also report again tomorrow how many were really filled) http://www.sankei.com/article/20220508-YD2GTJPZPJIOZJUSM4U2I6E6OE/

[Seiyashi 4,108]

2 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

A novelty: also the tickets for the day are sold at the 7/11 convenience stores now - no tickets are sold at the kokugikan https://www.sumo.or.jp/Admission/ticket/May/purchase/611/#tojitu

Will this be a permanent measure or a temporary COVID measure?

JP has announced the possibility of tourism by June, so there is a chance this information might be pertinent for international fans considering flying in for Nagoya or later.

[Akinomaki 40,767]

On 08/05/2022 at 15:35, Akinomaki said:

no tickets are sold at the kokugikan

But the tickets for Ajigawa's danpatsushiki after the basho are sold in the kokugikan, ex-Aminishiki mentioned it on NHK

[Akinomaki 40,767]

On 20/05/2022 at 12:53, Akinomaki said:

But the tickets for Ajigawa's danpatsushiki after the basho are sold in the kokugikan, ex-Aminishiki mentioned it on NHK

He sold them himself o

[Akinomaki 40,767]

Izutsu sat right next to Ajigawa and also sold tickets for HIS danpatsushiki on the 28th, a day before Ajigawa's

o o