Sumō torikumi zue / Tachikawa Emba sen; Utagawa Kunisada ga
A Japanese woodblock picture book from 1849, published in Edo by Honya Matasuke, with text by Tachikawa Emba and illustrations by Utagawa Kunisada, showing sumo wrestling techniques for a general readership. Its pages are laid out as paired spreads with several small wrestlers per page, each grappling pose set beside columns of text. A designer might take the energetic, tangled figure groupings and the economical ink line that conveys mass, motion and body weight.
