Before the training , 2019
70 x 100 x 2 cm (h x w x d)
Japanese ink on paper

Sumo training starts around 7am everyday.
The wrestlers lives in the same building and coming downstairs to a training hall to start stretching.

Some of them talk to each other, some concentrate on practice.

Even though they are looking old, they are young people in their 20-30s

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Sumo student in shikiri-naoshi pose , 2020
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Stretching in school , 2020
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