高根山与一右ェ門　千田川吉五郎, The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigorō, Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1790–93

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高根山与一右ェ門　千田川吉五郎, The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigorō, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1790–93, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 12 1/3 ( cm; W. 5 3/32 in. ( cm), Prints, Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760–1849 Tokyo (Edo)), 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

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