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Re: (sumo literature)First English Sumo Book



> 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.