copy negative

Date1928

DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm

ClassificationsPhotographic Archives

Credit LineGift of Atsuyoshi Hosokawa

Object number97.3.2

Description1 b&w image of 8 sumo wrestlers in three rows, three standing in rear with arms crossed, two in the middle and three seated in front with legs crossed. All dressed in sumo loin cloths. Yoshio Shibata (Dangoyama) is in the back row middle. Japanese sumotori Koganeyama visits Sacramento. Koganeyama (front row center) also visited Sacramento on the same trip [where he visited Fresno, see 97.14.1]. Here, he poses with local sumotori from the Sacramento area, including Toyomori Hosokawa ("Toshuzan") in the front row, far right, and Yoshio Shibata ("Dangoyama") in middle of the back row.