Word: daidozan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display in Tokyo's huge Mitsukoshi department store was a newly discovered Sharaku depicting not another actor but a wrestler: the famed and presumably feared Daidozan ("Great Boy Mountain") Bungoro. Daidozan's career is almost as much a mystery as Sharaku's own. At eight, when Sharaku drew him, the little athlete weighed 180 Ibs. and boasted a 47-inch waistline. Sharaku showed him charging belly-on toward the spectator and squinting in delighted anticipation of the coming collision with his opponent. Daidozan never fulfilled his large promise, for he quit the ring at a mere...
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