The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigorō
Katsushika Hokusai Japanese
Not on view
Hokusai occasionally treated the sumo world in his prints. He returned to the subject briefly in the early 1790s after a decade-long absence. Here, the sumo wrestlers Wadagahara Jinshirō on the right and Kachōzan Gorōkichi on the left are locked together during a fight. They are depicted with thinner, more refined lines than in the artist's early sumo prints. The signature Shunrō ga ("painted by Shunrō") is one he used for a period before choosing his most familiar name, Hokusai.
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