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I don't think this is fanart? I found it funny.

Thank you, I didn't know "his" rink was closed, even for training? As to air quality onboard, I understand A380 (I don't think any could be flying now), B787 and particularly A350 don't give those breathing problems and fevers. I just hope he does what he thinks best, because it is very likely to be what IS best. ;-) And I was also considering the possibility he might already be back to Japan. As to quarantine measures when going back to Toronto, as these things tend to change everyday... A bad (last?) stroke to Cathay Pacific. I hope this old Lady will survive.

Many thanks to everybody. KatjaThera, the only thing I don't necessarily agree with is, is Yuzuru Hanyu better off now in Toronto or in Sendai. The risk in flights and airports is lessening with dwindling numbers of passengers, if he's in Sendai he may be able to skate as soon as he ends a self-imposed quarantine, and he is home. And with both parents, and his sister, and maybe her family if she has. So, I really have no opinion on the matter, and am sure HE has and is doing best. Of course in Toronto he can find a job as a baby-sitter, or cat-sitter. ;-) Or read Pride and Prejudice, to "find himself" (partly) portrayed by the cleverest, wittiest, most tenderly teasing author, and get the most wonderful and pleasant English skills boost that can be. It is even available online. https://pemberley.com/etext/PandP/index.html And as to alcohol, it seems he reacts to alcohol itself, and with more than a very few molecules, so when there is alcohol in a recipe such as baked cake, there is no problem as alcohol vanishes with heat, only flavour molecules remain. As to fried food, I really agree there is a great difference between delicate, slightly fried gyoza, and chips or other heavily fried stuff. And he may have a stricter diet for practice and competition, than for "off" moments when he may think he can afford some heavier digestion and lower efficiency, for instance just before a long haul flight back to Toronto after a championship. I suppose it must be the same for most top-level athletes.

I really don't know what it is about, but I will ask "my preferred hotline" and try if I can, it is 21:00 here in Germany.

Thank you for all the answers! I didn't think of an allergy to chocolate, because if you have an allergy, normally you won't have even a tiny bit of it, but I "feared" an intolerance. With an intolerance you can have a mouthful to be polite. GPF flowers were of chocolate? I thought marshmallow. And I suppose he doesn't have a real allergy to alcohol, just he can't digest it, or he was informed before the interview that there was no alcohol in the cakes? I wonder if he can have dishes with cooked wine or brandy etc, it is so delicious, and all the alcohol evaporates... Sometimes I think I couldn't cook without, while I drink so little wine, but then, it is not very Japanese. (But I do pour a drop in some Asian dishes.) I think there have already been debate about his parallel between programs maturity and cheese and wine? Was it totally without personal experience? (Though in Canada it may not be that impressive? Though in Toronto there may be really great restaurants.)

Yuzuru Hanyu's diet? I feel too curious, but I understand asthma can be related with allergies, and I wondered if Yuzuru Hanyu had already mentioned he had some? And in this interview (Kobe 2015), he eats only a little bit of each cake; Nobunari Oda no more, but we can see he is upset ;-) and Shoma Uno too shy. Are there things he cannot eat? He says he doesn't eat much chocolate cake, I hope he can eat chocolate at least? Shortcakes, if he means shortbread, dont contain eggs, and usually butter, no cream, and many people intolerant to milk can have butter? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30nkyg In fact I wonder if he already said something about it. I suppose every top athlete anyway, must have a diet with lots of carbohydrates with carefully determined glycemic index to deliver energy during practice and competition, a good deal of chosen proteins to build and rebuild muscle, and very little fat?

I have just watched or rewatched them all but 4CC 2020, and I must say, I found the first choice really heartbreaking. Even the second. And of course, I feel overwhelmed by beauty and perfection.

Unfortunately I can see none. Is it on Youtube?

I think he does dance very different styles. Just, you will always have haters and their followers.

What's the Bon dance?

Well, I understood FlyingCamel's argument like this too. I just have the impression he has already managed to take whatever he needs from ballet and incorporated it in skating, without having to do that sort of double translation skaters usually have to do from ballet to skating. A few weeks ago I dreamed seeing him doing "piqué en tournant" in first position, just to notice later he did so in several programs and I had not noticed explicitly the beauty of this movement, in its simplicity, but then it was impressed unknowingly in my memory.

Sorry, I dare it. Your reflection made me think of Nikolay Tsiskaridze dancing Veuve Simone in Vain Precautions, with his pupil/nearly daughter Anzhelina Vorontsova as Lise. The video is 1h20, nearly the whole ballet and the clog dance had a problem of tempo, but the beginning has already a good deal about the mother/grown child relationship, and reading you about Brian Orser repeating "Quality is more important", I had in head Nikolay Tsiskaridze yelling more or less the same to his students... ;-) If the link doesn't work, the title on Youtube is "Тщетная предосторожность" Воронцова Цискаридзе.

Wasn't this indirectly teasing Nathan Chen, who got so little from his ballet training? Or precisely addressing advice for ballet training, by showing it was not the one and only secret to dance on ice? Of course some ballet would be better than taking 10kg or injuring his ankles with aerobics. ;-)

Thank you so much! This is a very complete answer. I wasn't expecting any relationship between families of similar crest, because in Europe too, though similar crests may sometimes mean related families, most often families with similar crests have no particular relationship, or a branch of a family can change crest completely. Also, I often read (not from you) that "unlike in Europe", in Japan every family could have a crest, I don't know for other countries but in France, everybody could have a crest — except the crests already used by others, and strangely, this rule is still in force, with sometimes trials. Just, in fact only nobility/noble gentry, high clergy (these two had to) and some traders or non-noble gentry (these by choice) did have crests. Others would use merely their name and surname, sometimes a name of origin, though they could have taken a crest.

Of course he would be good at it, I have no doubt about it. I hadn't even thought of it, just wondered if he would need it to improve his skating, and I tend to think it wouldn't, but of course I may be wrong. Yet I think he may have as fruitful discussions with the GOAT in ballet, Nikolay Tsiskaridze, as he must have had with the GOAT pianist, Krystian Zimerman (though the latter speaks Japanese, the former only so-so English), but this wouldn't be ballet lessons either.

The question being : does he really need it? For anybody else I would say yes. "Everybody need ballet training." ;-) For him, maybe I'm lacking imagination, but he has already built his own dance language, and it is so beautiful, unlike most contemporary wannabe choreographs', even with strong ballet training. I don't know how to express it. It is pure, like ballet is without skates. He will certainly improve it with time, as he has already done, but I just can't imagine how. It looks so perfect already. The only use I would see of ballet lessons for him, would be to see how ballet is taught, in order to, when he coaches, make his own method of "yuzu-dance" training. But then he may have better benefit in having teacher training classes? Unfortunately Vaganova Schools' are in Russian. Stéphane Lambiel? Oh yes, a duo of the two please! Two different skates, answering each other, and sometimes going along.

This is quite clear, after several apparently contradictory rumours. Thank you!

Certainly, he is the most able to make the best of it, and I am sure nobody panic. Yet I suppose he will need months to get his level back. Maybe less than others, but still. About his kamon, this site doesn't tell which it is : https://medium.com/identity-design/kamon-the-japanese-traditional-identity-design-c485018e7781 As to the three kikko with circle, here something more : https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/戸室氏 Here is a Google translation of the paragraph : Mr. Shibamato Muro It is considered an old house in Shibamata, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo. The royal family, Ishiteruyama Shosh 院 in Shinko-ji Temple, has a grave from the 16th year of Genwa (1617) and an inscription from the 6th year of culture (1809). Until the Meiji era, the company was engaged in agriculture on and around the current Shibamata Taishakuten approach, but commenced commercial and residential land management in the Taisho and early Showa eras, such as rice shops, rice crackers, and tobacco shops. Has shifted from agriculture. The family crest is "3 rounds and 3 turtles, Kabishi" [9] [10] [11]. Family crest in a circle (and on Wikimedia Common, the name of the crest is Maru ni mitumori Kikkou ni Hanabishi) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_mitumori_Kikkou_ni_Hanabishi.svg Here, the pictures in the hexagons don't look that much like the previous ones? But in heraldry terms, are they the same or different? (Sorry for the article relating crap.) https://aramajapan.com/news/gossip/yuzuru-hanyu-denies-dating-rumors/53762/ Edit : does the beginning of this article relate to it? I can't do anything of it with Google translation. https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2018/07/02/kiji/20180702s00079000131000c.html Edit 2 : and this paragraph from another article? では羽生結弦選手は、成人式のために用意した紋付羽織袴から 丸に三つ盛亀甲の説が有力で、亀甲紋のバリエーションみたい。 でも丸に三つ盛亀甲花菱という説もあり これは三つ盛亀甲紋と、花菱紋のミックスらしい。 羽生結弦　羽織袴　家庭画報 もし花菱紋なら勝海舟もらしいけど 三つ盛亀甲花菱なら 滋賀の浅井長政公や、新潟の直江兼続公が有名らしい。 ただし三つ盛亀甲花菱説の花菱とは少々くせものです。 戦国時代は家紋の意匠に対する意識はルーズで 花菱だけでなく、唐花や剣花菱とか資料によってバラバラだと。 だから羽生結弦選手の家紋は、丸に三つ盛亀甲の説が無難かも！ https://bluemoon-yh.info/archives/792

From 6:19 to 6:24, we can see Yuzuru Hanyu's kamon/mon. Do you think it is a personal one, or his family's? It looks a bit like the Asai clan's (extinct in 1573), but it is not the same. The Asai one (as well as the Itsukushina shrine in Hiroshima) have the three hexagons, with a four-petal flower in each. Here I don't see what is in the hexagons. Plus, it is not circled, while Yuzuru Hanyu's is circled. I have found a circled mon (still with a four-petal flower in each hexagon), it is called kiko/kikko, which seems to mean tortoise shell, and I don't know if it relates to a family — or if it is his. If it is, I feel he may have had fun dedicating ANA's A380 models, painted with tortoises. ;-) I have no knowledge at all about Japanese heraldry (I don't even know how many petals the Imperial chrysanthemum has), and very little about European heraldry, so if anybody knew more on the matter...

Well, waltz is not polka, a Viennese would tell you. ;-) For those of you who like "storm" music (thinking of Rika Kihira's and Yuzuru Hanyu's recent programs), Unter Donner und Blitz (Under Thunder and Lightning), of Johann Strauss the Son, played by Viennese Philarmonic under the direction of Carlos Kleiber, who was I think the greatest director of all times, but whi is dead unfortunately, it is a polka : The choice of a waltz was more difficult, but here the spring coming, isn't it? At least in Northen Hemisphere, so Voices from the Spring seemed appropriate :

Well, I had also thought it "impossible". And anyway, as long as Yuzuru Hanyu competes, he won't let his coaches (how does Tracy Wilson manage to stay in shape?) lose their belly, out of stress. Or retain their hair, for those who mind. ;-) Or Brian Orser should wear a Pooh costume. But it is not just the question of the shape. The dancer who partnered Nureyev in this parody of Swan Lake has rather the line of a pairs skater, and foam over it. I think Yuzuru Hanyu wouldn't need a great help in comedy. His Parisienne Walkways has already a good "blink". I am confident he is gifted there too.

The title of the video on Youtube is Yuzuru "playboy" Hanyu. As if he was taking off his top to impress?

True but he was pleased by Alexandra Trusova's request for joint quadruple toeloops, endeavoured to follow her rythm, and succeeded as soon as the second attempt. We know he studies the way Eteri girls jump, so he certainly had a very clear view of what her jump looked like, but I consider his success a great one, and I think he would like to dance together with another or others. In fact, the best would be if he could skate two exhibition programs, one single and one duo or other. ;-)

Wasn't there a merman eaten in Onmyiogi? :-o Edit : Onmyoji, sorry.