[sumo] The mysterious world of elite sumo wrestlers | Th…

[Geoff Senson]

I get access via Apple News.
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Sumo wrestling is one of Japan’s most enigmatic traditions: ritualistic, mysterious, eye-popping. Wrestlers — rikishi — are typically scouted at about the age of 15 (though they can start training from as young as 3), when they enter the beya, the dedicated sumo stables where athletes live and train. The sport is proudly Japanese, though competitors also come from other countries with wrestling traditions, such as Mongolia and Georgia; each beya can admit only one foreign fighter. Few outsiders are granted access to this secretive world but David Sharabani, an award-winning photographer who styles himself as Lord K2, spent a year behind the scenes capturing the rikishi training hard and competing in tournaments in front of thousands of clamouring fans. He also photographed the men in their leisure time: skateboarding between training sessions or wandering through the streets of Ryogoku, the historic Tokyo district that is the centre of Japanese wrestling.
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On Sunday, November 6, 2022, 5:02 PM, Jeffrey Anderson <jpaitv at gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-mysterious-world-of-elite-sumo-wrestlers-6ktrcwqlz

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