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Tanikaze Kajinosuke
Katsukawa Shunshōc. mid-1780s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Tanikaze Kajinosuke (1750–1795) was an extraordinary champion sumo wrestler who hailed from what is now Sendai, a city in northern Japan. Even at his death from influenza at age 44, he was dominating the ring and was one of the first to be given sumo’s highest rank, <em>yokozuna</em> (横綱), during his lifetime. In this print, Katsukawa Shunshō showed him as he may have appeared strolling the avenue, spied by his fans.
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- Title: Tanikaze Kajinosuke
- Creator: Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792)
- Date Created: c. mid-1780s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 37.8 x 17.6 cm (14 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Yamanaka & Co., sold to Edward L. Whittemore), Edward L. Whittemore [1862–1930], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.209
- Medium: color woodblock print
- Original Title: 谷風梶之輔
- Inscriptions: Artist's signature: Shunsho ga
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1930.209
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