Japanese sumo wrestler. He wears his hair in a net, a copper girdle with the imperial arms, breeches tied with cords, metal shin guards. After an illustration in Arnoldus Montanus's Atlas Japannensis, 1670, copied by Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature, Japan, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1823.

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