Sumô Wrestler Prints,
Part II
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Wrestlers: Kotôzan Bunemon (湖東山文右エ門, left) and Iwamigata Jôemon (岩見潟丈右エ門, right) Judge: Musashigawa (武蔵川) Date: 1842 winter season or the 1843
spring season Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô |
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Wrestlers: Shiranui-emon (不知火右衛門, left) and
Kagiyama Taniemon (劔山谷右衛門, right) Judge: Shikimori Inosuke (式守伊之助, left) and
Miyagino (宮城野, right) Date: c. 1843 Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô |
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Title: Illustration of Sumô
Wrestlers Entering the Ring at Kanjin Matches (Kanjin ôzumô dohyôiri no zu,
勧進大相撲土俵入之図) Subject: Ceremonial entry of
wrestlers Date: c. 1847-1850 Publisher: |
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Another state of the above triptych with
different wrestlers’ names |
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Title: Wresters entering the Fund-raising Sumo Matches (Kanjin ozumo dohyoiri no zu,
勧進大相撲土俵入之図) Subject: The
ring-entering ceremony from the 1850 spring season held on the Wrestlers: The wrestlers
on the right are on the higashi
(east side). From the right, in
descending order in ranking: Tsurugizan (ôzeki), Koyanagi (sekiwake), Goyôboku
(komusubi), Iôzan, Arakuma,
Tomozuna, Kumagatake, Kumosayama, Musashino, Masuizan (stepping into the ring), Kumoudake
(already standing in the ring).
Exiting to the left are the wrestlers on the nishi (west side), also in a
descending order in ranking from the right: Kagamiiwa
(sekiwake, still in the ring), Arauma (komusubi,
stepping out of the ring), Tsuneyama, Inagawa, Itsukushima, Kaigatake,
Kuroiwa, Kimigatake, Ichiriki,
Amatsukaze.
The ôzeki of the west side, Hidenoyama, is
the large figure already off the ring, appearing behind the exiting
wrestlers. Date: 1850 Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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A later edition of the same triptych with different wrestlers’
names and generally harsher colors.
This triptych represents the 1865 winter season, also held at Honjo Ekôin. The names
on the right are for the east side and those on the left for the west
side. On the east side, they are from
the right in a descending order in ranking: Kimenzan
(ôzeki), Jinmaku
(sekiwake), Chitosegawa (komusubi), Kajigahama, Arauma, Shiramayumi, Terugatake, Yanasedake, Minatogawa, Tsurugataki. On
the west side are, from the right to left also in a descending order in
ranking: Shiranui (ôzeki),
Onogawa (sekiwake), Washigahama
(komusubi), Shushakayama, Chiganoura,
Azumazeki, Ayanami, Musashigawa,
Ryôgoku, Koshinoumi. |
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Title:
勧進大相撲興行之全図 Subject: Ceremonial
entry of wrestlers at the great wrestling match to raise funds for pious
causes Wrestlers: The umpire
seated in the center is Kimura Shonosuke Date: 1847-1853 Publisher: |
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Another state of the above design |
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Title: None Subject: Wrestlers Kagamiiwa Hamanosuke (鏡岩濱助) and Koyanagi Tsunekichi (小柳常吉) Date: c. 1850 (censors
Mera and Murata) Publisher: Musashi-ya Isaburô |
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Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as sumô
wrestlers Akitsushima Kuniemon (left) and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Onigadake
Dôemon (right) in the kabuki play Sekitori Nidai no Shobuzuke,
performed in the 9th month of 1850 |
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Title: Udaishô Yoritomo-kô sumô go-ran
no zu (The Great Wrestling Match
before Yoritomo and His Son Sanetomo: Chokyo Wrestling
with Chikatsune, 右大将頼朝公相撲御覧図) Description: The
great sumô wrestling match before Yoritomo and his
son Sanetomo: Chôkyô wrestling
with Chikatsune, umpired by Ogata Saburô Masayoshi Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô Date: c. 1839-1841 Robinson: T74 |
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Title: Somoku honchô sumai no
okori-hara wa etc. (河津三郎俣野五郎相撲図,
Picture of Kawazu Saburô and Matano Gorô Wrestling) Description: Kawazu Saburô Sukeyasu and Matano Gorô Kagehisa wrestling before
Yoritomo, umpired by Sanada Yoichi Yoshitada in
1170 Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shoshichi (Robinson
identifies the publisher as To-Sawa) Date: 1844 Robinson: T141 |
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Title: Akazawa-yama yűshi sumô no zu Description: Kawazu Saburô Sukeyasu throwing Matano
Gorô Kagehisa in their
wrestling match before Yoritomo, Ôba Kagechika and others Publisher: Izumi-ya Seishichi Date: Snake 2, March 1857 Robinson: T340 |
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Title: Akazawa-yama ô-sumô (赤沢山 大相撲) Description: Matano Gorô Kagehisa (股野五郎景久) thrown by Kawazu Saburô Sukechika (河津三郎祐親) in their sumô wrestling match before Yoritomo
umpired by Ebina Genpachi Hirotsuna
(河津三郎祐安) Publisher: Maru-ya Kyűshirô Date: 4th month of
1858 Robinson: T353 NOTE: This bout took place on |
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Wrestler: Oniwaka Rikinosuke (鬼若 力之助) at age eight
with his giant hand print Date: 1849 (based
on Oniwaka Rikinosuke’s
age and the seals of censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Publisher: |
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Another state of the above design. Note that the hand print is entirely
different. |
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“Robinson” refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement. CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO MAIN
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