Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 34
The poem on the right by Tatekawa Emba II (1791-1862) is a thirty-one syllable kyoka which puns on the name of the wrestler by likening his presence to a "flash of lightning" (inazuma). The poem to the left is a seventeen-syllable senryu by Inazuma himself.
Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters, pl. 34
The poem on the right by Tatekawa Emba II (1791-1862) is a thirty-one syllable kyoka which puns on the name of the wrestler by likening his presence to a "flash of lightning" (inazuma). The poem to the left is a seventeen-syllable senryu by Inazuma himself.