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Sumo event at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
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- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of a sumo event happening on the front lawn of the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, as part of the festivities to celebrate its opening. Photographs depict participants preparing for and wrestling in the event, and members of the crowd.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-2710
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of a sumo event happening on the front lawn of the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, as part of the festivities to celebrate its opening. Photographs depict participants preparing for and wrestling in the event, and members of the crowd.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata for 535-2710-1: "Mamoru Yamaguchi announces the wrestlers by singing their names in Japanese."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2710-2: "Wrestlers, their names marked on their backs with pen, wait their turn in the ring."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2710-3: ""Sumo wrestlers" grapple on the front lawn of the new Nikkei Heritage Centre, in a sumo tournament, part of the opening festivities for the new centre."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2710-4: "David Sakata gets some help wrapping his "mawashi," the traditional Japanese sumo belt, from M. Naruki."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2710-5: "A couple of grapplers tumble to the ground outside the sumo ring. The winner in a sumo match is the wrestler who can knock his opponent over so that something other than his feet hit the ground."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2710-6: "Mike Matsubada, in the white smock, takes the prospective wrestlers through some of the rituals of the sumo match, including having opponents show each other their hands to prove they're not hiding weapons."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2710-7: "A young fan takes in the action from ringside."
- Geographic Access
- Southoaks Crescent
- Street Address
- 6688 Southoaks Crescent
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Kingsway-Beresford Area
Images
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