Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 117525
Beginning of Sumoö
- Artist / 作者
- Kajita Hanko梶田半古
- Date / 年代
- 1909
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 481 × 352 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
Kajita Hanko worked as a staff illustrator for the Yomiuri Newspaper Company and contributed many illustrations to serialized novels. This print also served as a book illustration for the literary magazine, Bungei Kurabu (Literature Club). It depicts the beginning of sumö as written in the Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan, 720 C.E.), wherein two men had a sumö fight in order to determine the strongest man in Japan. (from Oh Sumo! exhibition 5/7/07-)
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