on this day: 1922

["Rowan Klein" <rowanchan@hotmail.com>]

The Osaka Mainichi, Thursday 13th April 1922

Wrestling Matches for Prince

   "Sumo", Japanese wrestling, will be featured as one of the 
entertainments for the Prince of Wales in Tokyo. It will be given on the 
premises of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa's residence in Sendagaya, suburb of that 
city, on April 15, after luncheon. A "dohyo", an earthen platform for the 
wrestlers, will be erected in an ancient orthodox style in front of the 
foreign style building. After the bouts by the less skillful wrestlers in 
the beginning, Onishiki and Tochigiyama, the two noted champions, will 
conduct what is called the "dohyo-iri", or ceremony of entering the 
platform, which will mark the ending of the wrestling novices and the 
beginning of the bouts by champion wrestlers. At the beginning of the 
wrestling by champions, Tochigiyama and Onishiki will show how the novices 
are trained. Then there will be 10 bouts given by picked wrestlers. The 
winners will then receive, according to an old custom, artificial flowers of 
chrysanthemum and cherry. At the end, the ceremony of accepting the trophy 
of victory will be conducted, known as Yumitori Shiki, or the ceremony of 
accepting a bow. The Tokyo Sumo Association has recalled all the wrestlers 
now out of the city traveling in different parts of Japan, to be sure that 
the entertainment of the Prince will lack nothing. The following matches are 
some of the selections made.
   Ibukiyama vs. Dewagatake;
   Kiyosegawa vs. Yahagiyama;
   Onosato vs. Chibagasaki;
   Tsunenohana vs. Genjiyama;
   Onishiki vs. Tochigiyama



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