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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Notes sur
le sumo
(Notes on Sumo
)
Laurent Bruel
Risto
collection imagème

80 pages
bilingual french/japanese
black and white printing
15 x 21 cm
ISBN : 978-2-916383-00-2
November 2007
13 euros