Sumo Sport & Tradition - J. A. Sargeant

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      SUMO

      SUMO

      the

       sport

       and the

       tradition

      by J. A. SARGEANT

      CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY

       Rutland, Vermont Tokyo, Japan

      European Representatives

      For the Continent:

       BOXERBOOKS, INC., Zurich

      For the British Isles:

      PRENTICE-HALL INTERNATIONAL, INC., London

      Published by the

       Charles E. Tuttle Company

       of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo. Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032

      © 1959 by the Charles E. Tuttle Company

       All rights reserved under the Berne Convention

       and the Universal Copyright Convention

      Library of Congress

       Catalog Card No. 59-5993

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-0422-8 (ebook)

      First printing, 1959

       Sixth printing, 1964

      Printed in Japan

      Table of Contents

1 In Days Gone By 7
2 Born Sumoists 12
3 The Road to Stardom 16
4 Grand Tournaments 23
5 Sumo Ranking 26
6 "Psychological Warfare" 32
7 The Techniques of Sumo 36
8 Grand Champions 47
9 Pageantry 56
10 The Referee 65
11 The Honorable Judges 69
12 So Clean and Gentlemanly 72
13 Sumo Nomenclature 76
14 "Off Duty" 84
15 The Charm of Sumo 88
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Tokitsukaze, president of the Japan Sumo Association 17
2 Preliminary to a bout 18
3-4 Sumo in action 19
5 Chiyo-no-yama performing the dohyo-iri 20
6 Tochinishiki performing the dohyo-iri 37
7-10 Sumo in action 38-40
11 Sumo throws 42-43
12 A former grand champion in action 57
13-14 Former grand champions performing dohyo-iri 58-60
15-16 Grand Champion Waka-no-hana and friends 77
17-20 Sumo in action 78-79
21 Bow-twirling ceremony 80

      CHAPTER 1

      In Days Gone By

      The West has its "sport of kings." Japan, in Sumo, has her "sport of emperors."

      Tokyo's famous mecca of Sumo, the Kuramae Kokugi Hall, has a conspicuous royal box. When Emperor Hirohito takes his seat there, gazing in loving admiration on the colorful spectacle that unfolds before him, he is but following age-old tradition. With a difference, however. Nowadays the emperor goes to Sumo; in the old days Sumo went to him.

      Even in ancient times the imperial court, the story goes, resounded with the stamping of the feet of the Sumo giants, and down the years the emperors as well as the great warrior-lords who ruled Japan during the Middle Ages have been ardent devotees of this manly sport. The first recorded and perhaps most famous bout of all

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