For other impressions of this print see Kondo and Suzuki, Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Schindler Collection (Tokyo, 1985), pl. 29, sold in these Rooms, Fine and Important Japanese Prints from the Collection of the Late Werner Schindler, April 22, 1987, lot 12; Illustrated Catalogue of an...Important Collection...of Japanese Color Prints...the Property of A. [Arthur] D. [Davison] Ficke, New York, American Art Galleries, February 10-11, 1920, lot 137, illustrated, where the catalogue states:

"The Wrestling Match"

Two huge wrestlers poised in the ring, crouching, ready to spring at each other at the signal of the umpire.
The magnificant brutality of the drawing, the massiveness of the composition, and the somber intensity of the coloring,
combine to place this among Shunsho's masterpieces. It is
interesting to note that this print, so greatly admired in
Europe, has never met with special enthusiasm from most
American collectors.
Formerly in the Hayashi and Wakai collections. Another copy
is reproduced in the V.I.K. Paris catalogue, "Harunobu", plate 56.