{"id":4733,"date":"2010-03-02T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2010-02-20T21:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T04:31:56","slug":"ozeki-sumo-vs-tokyo-international-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/ozeki-sumo-vs-tokyo-international-school-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozeki Sumo vs. Tokyo International School kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tis-kid-and-kotooshu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tis-kid-and-kotooshu.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tis kid and kotooshu\" width=\"604\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tis-kid-and-kotooshu.jpg 604w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tis-kid-and-kotooshu-250x215.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just 12 more days until the March Sumo tournament begins in Osaka. Between tournaments various demonstrations are held. One was in February in Tokyo. Tokyo International School students and parents attended. We didn&#8217;t, as a demonstration didn&#8217;t sound that interesting after seeing <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/sumo\/>the real thing<\/a>. Plus, the tickets were expensive, and Ryan wasn&#8217;t willing to enter the ring with the professionals anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kaio-and-tis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kaio-and-tis.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kaio and tokyois kids\" width=\"604\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kaio-and-tis.jpg 604w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kaio-and-tis-250x205.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I wasn&#8217;t there, I didn&#8217;t take today&#8217;s photos. Another TIS parent took these pics and did a fantastic job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kids.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kotooshu tokyo international school children\" width=\"604\" height=\"461\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kids.jpg 604w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kids-250x190.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ozeki Kotooshu (\u7434\u6b27\u5dde) and Ozeki Kaio (\u9b41\u7687) look like they are having a better time than the kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kaio-kids.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kaio-kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kotooshu kaio tokyo international school students sumo\" width=\"604\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kaio-kids.jpg 604w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kotooshu-kaio-kids-250x181.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaio, by the way, has the most wins in the top division of any <I>sumo rikishi<\/I> in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 12 more days until the March Sumo tournament begins in Osaka. Between tournaments various demonstrations are held. One was in February in Tokyo. Tokyo International School students and parents attended. We didn&#8217;t, as a demonstration didn&#8217;t sound that interesting after seeing the real thing. Plus, the tickets were expensive, and Ryan wasn&#8217;t willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[218,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}