The 'Kawazu throw', a technique still used in Sumo wrestling, owes its origin to the two samurai represented here. The one lifting up his opponent is Kawazu no Saburo Sukeyasu, a 12th century samurai and a great wrestler from Izu in the Province of Sagami. One day he engaged one of his neighbours, Matano no Goro Kagehisa, in a wrestling match. He picked him up by the loin cloth and gave him a terrible throw. Kagehisa never forgot this incident and later joined force with Sukeyasu's family rival, Kudo Suketsune, and succeeded in murdering Sukeyasu. This brought about the vendetta of the Soga brothers, Sukeyasu's sons.