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Re: (sumo literature)First English Sumo Book
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- Subject: Re: (sumo literature)First English Sumo Book
- From: David Aspinwall <aspinwall@TimesTen.com>
- Date: 02 Dec 1999 12:04:13 -0800
- In-reply-to: "Rob Hoey"'s message of "Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:37:44 +0900"
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> A co-worker of mine has brought in what looks like the first english sumo
> book which was published in 1959.
> It's called "Sumo the sport and the tradition" by J.A Sargeant.
A Library of Congress search (http://catalog.loc.gov/) shows one from
1946:
LC Control Number: 72202798
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Brief Description: Burton, William Kinninmond.
Wrestlers and wrestling in Japan, by
W. K. Burton; with a historical and
descriptive account by J. Inouye.
Tokyo, K. Ogawa [1946?]
18 p. 13 plates (part col.) 39 cm.
I don't know anything about it, though.