[sumo] [sumo art] Boston Sumo art exhibit

[Tetsuonoumi]

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&subkey=5005

Looks like Sumo art is coming to Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts!

> From its legendary prehistoric beginnings until 
> the present day, sumô wrestling has dominated 
> the world of traditional Japanese sport. Like 
> Kabuki actors and noted courtesans, wrestlers 
> were idols of the urban popular culture of the 
> eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and so 
> appeared frequently in woodblock prints. “Sumo, 
> Japan’s Big Sport” features not only portraits 
> of famous wrestlers and scenes of their 
> greatest bouts, but also views of wrestlers as 
> celebrities in everyday life, legends and 
> Kabuki plays featuring wrestlers as heroes, and 
> fantasies in which animals or supernatural 
> beings enjoy wrestling just as humans do.

Hmmm, they spell sumo even different from the 
king of different spellings, Moti!!  And they 
fail to include a trip to my world famous sumo 
bathroom, aided by Kintaro, only a few miles west of the museum.

Gambatte!

         Tetsounoumi

PS - Go Chiyotaikai!