Cleveland Museum of Art
Tanikaze Kajinosuke
Katsukawa ShunshōLinkedCulture matchlcp-78ef94f51c9d
- Date
- c. mid-1780s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 111679
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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, yokozuna (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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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
- Provenance
- (Yamanaka & Co., sold to Edward L. Whittemore) | ?–1930: Edward L. Whittemore [1862–1930], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1930–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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