{"id":98,"date":"2009-03-28T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T05:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-06-26T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T05:58:14","slug":"vintage-sumo-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/2009\/03\/vintage-sumo-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage sumo videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been digitizing some old videotapes I shot years ago. Here are a few sumo gems.
\nThis is Akebono making hand prints at his stable in Tokyo in 1991. This was before he became Ozeki\/Yokozuna.<\/p>\n

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This is Konishiki at a party in 1987 at a party held in his honor by the America-Japan Society in Tokyo. He and the late US Ambassador Mike Mansfield compare the size of their hands, and Konishiki also sings on stage.
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Yokozuna Akebono performs the dohyo-iri ring-entering ceremony during an exhibition sumo tournament at Yasukuni Shrine. He was the only yokozuna and looking totally awesome.
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I\u2019ve been digitizing some old videotapes I shot years ago. Here are a few sumo gems. This is Akebono making hand prints at his stable in Tokyo in 1991. This was before he became Ozeki\/Yokozuna. This is Konishiki at a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}