Terms and conditions of use
Sumō wrestler, Wadagahara Jinshirō
(和田ヶ原 甚四朗)
1854
Medium
colour woodblock
Measurements
37.0 × 25.3 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Allan Myers AO and Maria Myers AO, 2012
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
During Wadagahara Jinshirō’s seven-year wrestling career, from March 1853 to October 1860 he only reached the lower rank of Maegashira. We can find him in the crowd of the adjoining tournament print in the group of wrestlers to the left of the ring, back row, fourth from the right. He also appears in the Sumō Banzuke ranking print as the sixth figure from the centre on the top left.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Japan
Inscription
printed in ink (in Japanese characters) (in image) l.r.: (kiwame: seal) / Toyokuni ga (in cartouche) / (1854: date censor seal) / (Tsutaya Kichizo: publisher’s seal)
printed in ink (in Japanese characters) (in image) l.l.: (engraver’s seal)
Accession Number
2012.5
Department
Asian Art
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