Null CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL - SUMO FIGHTER STATUTE in polychrome enameled raku
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CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL - SUMO FIGHTER STATUTE in polychrome enameled raku Signed with a monogram below H. 27 cm

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CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL - SUMO FIGHTER STATUTE in polychrome enameled raku Signed with a monogram below H. 27 cm

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A SIGNED SCROLL PAINTING OF TWO SUMO WRESTLERS A SIGNED SCROLL PAINTING OF TWO SUMO WRESTLERS Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868) Ink and watercolors on paper. Mounted on paper frame. Signed. Finely painted with two sumo wrestlers locked in combat, the one in the back executing the kawazu gaku technique (one leg entanglement drop), as he coils his leg around his opponent’s, effectively using his weight to topple him. Both with neatly detailed faces showing intense, strained expressions. Image SIZE 84 x 36 cm, SIZE incl. mounting 96 x 42.5 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear. Minor flaking, tiny tears along the edges, few creases, and minuscule losses. Provenance: From the private collection of Thomas Padua, Mühldorf, Germany. Thomas Padua was an artist and collector of Japanese woodblock prints who exhibited his surimono collection at the Olaf Gulbransson Museum, in ‘Glückwünsche aus Kyoto: Japanische Shijo-Surimono aus der Sammlung Thomas Padua,’ 3 November 2013 to 26 January 2014. The two wrestlers practice the kawazu throw, so named after the famous wrestler Kawazu no Saburo Sukeyasu. When the latter was pulled up by his opponent Matano Goro Kunihisa (Kagehisa) by the loincloth, Sukeyasu prevented the hip swing by bringing down his opponent with his leg. In the present painting, too, it appears as if the wrestler in the front will be victorious, but the leg entanglement drop is already in process and in a matter of mere seconds he will by lying on the ground, defeated.

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