The Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the Ukiyo-e on display at the Plains Art Museum until Sept. 28FARGO — The Plains Art Museum has an exhibition of wood block prints on display depicting life for ...

Japan’s national sport seems more popular than ever. Attendance has bounced back from the pandemic; all 90 days of bouts in ...

FeatureTheir strength lies in patience and the ancestral skills they bring to the workbench every day, working in the spirit of mingei – a folk art movement ... I saw sumo wrestlers and ...

The oldest active sumo wrestler became the first to enter the ... retired at age 52 in 1796 during the Edo Period (1603-1867). The July tournament is the first to be staged before an audience ...

Indeed, some of those traditions stretch back hundreds of years and call back to either the Edo Period or the imperial ... which also decreased the public’s interest in sumo. However, this period ...

Examples include the Sumo Room, where huge monochrome sumo wrestlers painted by artist ... entire wall has been covered with a mural of an Edo-era castle. The guest room at Hotel Groove Shinjuku ...

During the Edo Period (1603-1868), sumo shifted from a way for samurai to train for battle to a competition between elite athletes. This is also when sumo wrestlers started to become known for ...

Sensō-ji’s elaborate ceremony includes monks, local dignitaries and celebrity guests like sumo wrestlers and actors ... Shrine’s historic Kite Market traces its roots back to the Edo period when kites ...

There may not be many fires today, but there were a lot back in Edo times. During the period’s 267 years ... a kabuki play revolves around a brawl between firefighters and sumo wrestlers. The fight ...

Other highlights include goshuin celebrating the local Hawks baseball team and papercraft goshuin resembling animated sumo ... wrestlers. Momiji Hachimangu began as a small private shrine and later ...

Professional sumo developed during the Muromachi period (1336-1573); as prosperity of the common people began to improve so did the popularity of sumo. By the Edo period (1603-1868), sumo would ...

but the sport welcomed its first foreign wrestler – a US-born Japanese-American – in 1934. And women were not even allowed to watch sumo bouts in the Edo period (1603 to 1868). But rather than ...