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Yokozuna are Grand Champions of Sumo Wrestling, the popular Japanese sport. Yokozuna is the highest rank possible for a sumo wrestler. In the 1980s the Japan Sumo Association decided to revitalize the old Sumo nishiki-e tradition and commissioned a series of sumo wrestler woodblock prints to the publisher Kyoto Hanga-in and the artist Daimon Kinoshita, born 1946.
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The Yokozuna Woodblock Print Series
The series depicts famous Yokozuna after 1950. On this page we introduce 5 famous sumo wrestler champions carved into traditional Japanese woodblock prints.
Kashiwado Tsuyoshi - Yokozuna in 1961, retired 1969 - No. 47
Kashiwado (1938-1996) was a very popular wrestler and the arch-rival of Yokozuna Taiho Koki. After he won the championship in 1961, he and other wrestlers were invited by Air France to a sumo show. At the airport, Kashiwado was mistaken by airport officials as the wife of Kasugano, his sumo mentor because of the sumo wrestler's traditional hair style. Embarrassing!
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Grand Champion Kashiwado
copyright Daimon Kinoshita
Taiho Koki - Yokozuna in 1961, retired 1971 - No. 48
The 48th Yokozuna, Taiho Koki dominated the scene together with his arch-rival Kashiwado in the 1960s. The Sumo Association awarded him the title of "Ichidai Toshiyori Taiho" and allowed him to open his own sumo school after his retirement in 1971.
Sumo Wrestling - Intro
Grand Champion Sumo Wrestler Taiho
copyright Daimon Kinoshita
Akebono Taro - Yokozuna in 1993, retired 2001 - No. 64
Akebono became the 64th "Yokozuna" grand champion wrestler. He came from Hawaii and weighed 212 kg!
Takanohana Koji - Yokozuna in 1994, retired 2003 - No. 65
Takanohana and his big brother, Wakanohana, became the first Yokozuna brothers in the history of sumo.
Introduction to Japanese Sumo
Grand Champion Sumo Wrestler Takanohana
copyright Daimon Kinoshita
Takanosato Toshihide - Yokozuna in 1983, retired 1986 - No. 59
Takanosato Toshihide had overcome diabetes from which he had suffered since his childhood, and became the 59th Yokozuna.
Dieter Wanczura
(August 2009)
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