Photograph shows a sumo match at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center with the referee in traditional costume. The contestants are wearing heavy canvas belts which are used to hold, throw or force the opponent out of the dirt ring. Sumo wrestling,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Sumo, another form of Japanese type wrestling, was a favorite activity at the centers. In Sumo the loser is either thrown or forced to step outside the dirt ring. Most of the holds are on heavy canvas belts worn by contestants. Photo shows a Sumo match at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center, with the referee in traditional costume." SANTA ANITA PHOTO NO. 679A 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Martial arts Men Oriental hand-to-hand fighting Relocation camps Sports Sumo Sumo wrestlers Wrestling Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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