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[Sumo team from Japan : first to arrive from Japan after World War II]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1951
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.132
Description13 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Four sumo wrestlers from Japan, the first since World War II, visit California on July 22 to August, 1951. Includes visits to Rafu Shimpo, San Francisco Seals Baseball field, a sumo tournament or demonstration in the Olympic auditorium where the sumo ring is a boxing ring with a circle drawn in the center, and the four wrestlers standing on forklift in front of airplane at airport. Former yokozuna Maedayama (Kinmatsu Hagimori), Yakatayama (Hakaru Yasutake), Onoumi (Hisamitsu Mojima), and Fujitayama (Tadayoshi Fujita) are dressed in traditional formal wear of kimono, hakama, haori with mon, white tabi and zori.
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