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The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigorō

ca. 1790–93
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 高根山与一右ェ門　千田川吉五郎
  • Title: The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigorō
  • Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760–1849 Tokyo (Edo))
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: ca. 1790–93
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
  • Dimensions: H. 12 1/3 ( 30.6 cm; W. 5 3/32 in. (12.9 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911
  • Object Number: JP741
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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