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Notes
on Sumo mixes notes – some written, others sketched –
of two travellers to Japan both struck in awe by their respective
discovery of sumo.
The book is the encounter of two viewpoints, a doubly subjective approach,
partial, disjointed, non scholarly to sumo.
This is not sumo for dummies, or a Lonely Planet
version of an exotic practice. These Notes are not a didactic,
nor a scholarly, cultured and useful enterprise. Not even one of those
savvy and hype graphic novel “travelogue” types.
It mostly aims to present a viewpoint. To see, to look. At what? A
show, a public, a fight that is not war, a people, a body. Things
like that…
But with the joy, and the lightness that belongs to sumo.
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