great article mind if can post some of the photos on my blog? of course ive credited the photos to you.

Comedian Adam Frucci has remixed some of my photos- with comment:

Well that hardly seems fair.

1) Keeps saying ‘old people and tourists’ — but as sumo is around 8:40 to 6:00, can any schoolkids or working stiffs manage it on weekdays?
2)’ Old people and tourists’ waiting for tickets — but all the windows are closed! where are the tickets going to come from?
3) ” A sumo carries his lunch ” — actually he has his mawashi curled up in a furoshiki.
4) Inside the Kokugikan the dohyo awaits — actually it’s charity day with a stage set up and the rear half of the seats empty.
5) “Circled around, the sumo get warmed up for fighting” — actually these men are singing jinku at a charity event.
6) “…the big guns only fight at the end of the day — around 6:00 p.m.” –ah, you just missed it! that’s when the whole thing has just ended. (This one reminds me of the time, at the end of a dampatsu-shiki, when I met a family of foreigners arriving at 4:00 –because their Japanese friends, knowing nothing of sumo except the regular TV coverage, had assured them that nothing happened till four — the exact time when informal sumo like dampatsu-shiki is finishing.)
7) His comment on throwing salt is inappropriate to the picture which clearly shows lower-ranked rikishi. This guy doens’t know that only sekirotori (and in one special case the upper makushita) throw salt.