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| Stockno.: | 20-273-8 | Artist: | Hasegawa Sadanobu 長谷川貞信 (1809-1879) | Description: | A memorial portrait for the Yokozuna wrestler Shiranui Dakuemon who died in 1854. Extremely rare. Shiranui Dakuemon was the 8th Yokozuna, the title granted in Nov. 1840. He retired in 1844 and was somehow relieved of his Yokozuna title suggesting some behavioral misstep. He was a great Osaka hero. His death poem reads: The dewdrop, does not lose its shape, even when it falls. (From Bickford Sumo, fig. 106, p. 142) | |
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