Time Codes:
1:51 Thanks to listeners and sumo jammies questions
2:37 Newsflash
2:40 Terunofuji Para-sports event
3:49 Flying Gorilla
4:41 Terunofuji's Yokozuna promotion event
8:33 Kagami Baraki intro
10:24 Mochi version
10:44 Origin of Kagami Baraki
11:38 Martial arts crossover
12:31 New tradition was born
12:49 people who bash
12:30 Mochi is labor intensive New Year's tradition
15:40 Journey does Kagami Baraki
17:15 Laurie intro to Me Brigade of 1805
18:36 Edo era Firemen description
19:39 dragon tattoos
20:30 tear down of houses by drunk firefighters
22:20 official real story
23:23 -25:00 Pay homage to me & brawl ***
25:00 Fights and flowers
25:30 Kabuki version
27:00 Let's rewrite history!
27:50 Tatsugoro
28:50 REWRITE
29:00 Full kabuki version
32:10 A politician saves the day
32:45 end of play
34:45 random but big moment in time
Sources:
https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202210160001226.html
https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202210160001186.html
https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202210150000800.html
https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202210100000711.html
https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2022/10/16/kiji/20221016s00005000657000c.html
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20221016/k10013860851000.html
https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2022/10/05/kiji/20221005s00005000384000c.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagami_biraki
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/this-is-japans-kagamibiraki-the-lid-of-the-sake-barrel-is-split-with-a-wooden-hammer-and-the-sake-inside-is-ser--289637819775167117/ (Great photo of Journey in their heyday breaking open one of these)
http://fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=156
https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/sumo-wrestlers-vs-firefighters
Kabuki Kool - The Fight of the Megumi Firemen and Sumo Wrestlers
Kit Brooks, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Frank Feltens, Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
https://crosseyedgallery.com/underdogs-and-antiheroes-asian-museum-art-washington-dc
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