Sumo SMACK Down

Japanese heavyweight wrestlers face off in a rare glimpse of the country just before its rapid industrialisation. the scene was captured by British-italian Felice Beato, who was one of the world’s first war photographers. He shot the Crimean War and rebellions of india and China before going to Japan. it was here that

Beato also learnt to hand-colour his images by applying Japanese watercolour-painting and print-making techniques. 1877