[sumo] Nagoya Basho sumo dinner?

[Doreen Simmons]

On 2009/06/22, at 17:34, Jezz wrote:

> It's a shame that our dates in Nagoya won't match up, but perhaps a
> good excuse (for others) to have two get togethers during the basho?
>
> Yes, I remember the dinner at Yamato's - do you remember that Mark
> Panek (author of 'Gaijin Yokozuna: A biography of Chad Rowan') was our
> waiter that evening?


Yes Jezz, I do indeed recall being waited upon by Mark Panek at 
Kamaaina's -- and very professionally too (he explained that at one 
time he had earned his living by working for a good restaurant). I had 
forgotten that that was the occasion.

Here is another of those sumo dinners; this one I was inspired to put 
into my Kansai Time Out column #100, of July 2000, writing about the 
vast increase in foreigners' interest caused mainly by the Internet.

Quote follows: "Chanko Kirishima, Day 14 Natsu Basho. Nine 
nationalities in a party of 15: Jarda from the Czech Republic, Kajsa 
and Pelle from Sweden, Moti from Israel, Barry from Canada, Meike from 
Germany, Barbara Ann from New York via Bhutan, Stewart and Michael from 
Reno via Paris. Of those of us who hadn’t come so far, there were 
Canadian Rob and American Donald from Yokohama (and Donald’s girlfriend 
Yasuko, the only Japanese in our party), Australian Katrina in from 
Osaka, Josh from the US living in Japan, and that batty old KTO 
columnist who lives just down the road from where most of the sumo’s 
at."


Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp