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In 2005, I was able to gain access to photograph a training session with the highest ranking sumo wrestler at the time, Asashoryu Akinori. It was at the beginning of the year when Asashoryu became the first sumo wrestler to win all six official tournaments (honbasho) in a single year.
This photograph was shot at the end of the session when a young trainee sumo wrestler was jumped upon as a test of his suppleness, while stretching on the ground.