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Sumō wrestler, Takekuma Bun-emon
(武隈 文右ェ門)
(c. 1840)
- Medium
- colour woodblock
- Measurements
- 37.1 × 25.7 cm (image) 37.8 × 25.7 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Japan
- Inscription
- inscribed in ink (in image) (in Japanese characters) l.l.: Kōchōrō Kunisada ga
inscribed in ink (in image) (in Japanese characters) c.l.: (kiwame: seal) / (Joshuya Kinzo: publisher’s seal) - Accession Number
- 2012.3
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Allan Myers AO and Maria Myers AO, 2012
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Gordon Darling Foundation - Gallery location
- Level 1, NGV International
- About this work
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During Takekuma Bun-emon’s wrestling career, spanning October 1824 to March 1845, he reached the second-highest rank of Ozeki. He is noted in sumo archives as coming from a merchant family in the Lake Biwa area. His proportions – weight 135 kilograms and height 182 centimetres – made him a very large and imposing personality in Edo-period Japan.
