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Patriciajaydee
@patriciajaydee.bsky.social
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Retired editor and writer of online design, fine arts and features magazines. Japanophile, always curious, but usually the last to know.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 4h
No such luck for Yamamoto. That sure looks like Churanoumi.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 4h
More at the airport--relaxed having their ducks in a row.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 4h
I never see cute guys like this when I go to the airport.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 5h
Not everyone can be seated in First Class.
I wonder who--besides the obvious-- gets the frills and champers in First Class? It would be a great show of camaraderie if Hokkaku and the Board sat in coach ... or sub coach.

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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 5h
The boys and their luggage.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 5h
It's been a whirlwind since the Aki Basho ended on September 28 with not a moment for the rikishi to exhale or loaf.

Our yokozuna and top wrestlers left for London today; first by bus and then (not sure if they chose Narita or Haneda) for a 14-hour flight to London Heathrow.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
And, an empty page, reserved for photos of Yokozuna(s) Hoshoryu and Onosato from the London Tournament, 2025.

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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Ozeki Hakuho and Maegashira Takamisakari--not in New York but in Las Vegas, 2005--where 'Robocop' was THE most popular of all rikishi.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
A young everybody--in front of the Great Wall of China. 2004
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Yokozuna Asashoryu and Korean-born sumo wrestler Kusugao in Seoul, 2004.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. 1998.
Yokozuna Takanohana with elder brother Ozeki Wakanohana--and that photogenic and most photographed glacier.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Melbourne, 1997. Kyokushuzan and Gojoro.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
French President Chirac welcomes Ozeki(s) Takanonami (left) Wakanohana and Musashimaru (right) at the Palais de l'Elysee. 1995
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Yokozuna Hokutoumi dohyo-iri, Brazil, 1990.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
On the Bateau Mouche down the Seine in Paris.
Seated second from left Kirishima, standing Sakahoko and kneeling his brother Terao. 1986
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Yokozuna Wajima leads the sumotori in China. 1973
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Yokozuna(s) Tochinoumi, Sadanoyama, Taiho, and Kashiwado
leaving the Port of Yokohama en route to the Soviet Union. 1965.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Yokozuna Chiyonofuji with attendants Ozeki(s) Wakashimazu and Konishiki perform the dohyo-iri at the US State Department in Washington, DC. 1983
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
Yokozuna Akebono in Vienna, 1995
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 6h
News and chatter about the upcoming Grand Sumo Tournament in London is percolating in the news, which attests to sumo's greater-than-ever popularity

Kyodo News has published a pictorial of rikishi on their JSA-sponsored travels abroad.

First up: Wakanohana, Akebono and Maenoumi in London, 1991.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 7h
NOW you tell me!
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 9h
Thanks for the close-up, Gavin. Now I know what you mean!
Full-time system must be the proud and unique feature of the business of the donor of the mawashi(s)-- who, according to the article is a devotee of the shrine.
Ya think?
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 9h
A fluffy, friendly and calm kitty in front of a nice house adds a form of everyday pleasure to a neighborhood walk.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 9h
I only wish I could be in the right place to catch our favorite rikishi in candid moments.
How do you say "Ooh, la la!," in Japanese?
You're too kind, Clint-san, but I love it. Thank you.
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 9h
Oooh--and I hope I make your hair bigger, too.
I love big hair and am quite certain it is how I get all my pow-wah!
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