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36-42: Entertainment
The Pennino collection, 36-42: Entertainment
Permission to use the Pennino Collection
If photos are used for non-commercial educational purposes such as use of the photos in class lectures, students’ presentations, and academic conference presentations, no permission is necessary. Please credit the photos with the sentence: “From the Walter A. Pennino Postwar Japan Photo Collection, courtesy of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” However if the photos are planned to be used in books, newspapers, documentaries, films, and other forms of media and print, the users must write to the Center for Japanese Studies to request permission. In the request, please explain the topic and the type of media/print.
Send inquiries or requests to:
Pennino Photo Collection
Center for Japanese Studies, Moore 216
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-2664
Fax: 808-956-2666
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CAPTION: Race horses are entering a race track.
ADDITIONAL INFO: There is no indication of which race track this is, but horse races resumed in Tokyo and Kyoto as early as October of 1946. Horse racing was suspended in 1943 as the war intensified. The names of the horses or jockeys may be written on the booth, but the sign is too difficult to read in the original photograph, as well.
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Photo ID 37
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Lake and Mountains
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CAPTION: Three persons, perhaps young boys, are fishing at a large lake.
ADDITIONAL INFO: There is no hint to indicate where this photo was taken. If this was taken somewhere around Tokyo or in the Kanto Area, it might be in Western Tokyo (Sayamako and Okutamako), Kanagawa (Ashinoko), and Yamanashi (Fuji Goko).
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CAPTION: A man in kimono watches the steam rising from a hot spring. The man probably is on vacation and staying at a spa hotel (onsen ryokan).
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ADDITIONAL INFO: The sign on the pole reads “Meibutsu, Umi Jigoku Yudetamago” (Specialty, Ocean Hell Boiled Eggs). The sign also says it takes five minutes to soft boil and seven minutes to hard boil an egg, giving some indication of the intense heat of the hot spring. The box to the left of the man is a steamer for chawan-mushi, or steamed custard. It is typical for spa resorts to sell boiled eggs cooked in hot spa water or by ground heat. This kind of boiled egg is commonly called “onsen tamago” (spa eggs). This picture may have been taken at Beppu, a famous spa resort in Kyushu. One area of Beppu is named “Umi Jigoku.” However, Hakone might also be a possible location of the photo as it also has many hot springs and is near Tokyo.
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CAPTION: A woman is carrying a baby on her back near the hot springs. Her kimono jacket wraps around her baby.
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ADDITIONAL INFO: The sign at the left side says, “Meibutsu, Jinetsu Oyō; Chawanmushi” (Specialty, Ground Heat; Steamed Egg Custard). People in Japan visit spa resorts to refresh themselves and to heal their illnesses. Many spa resorts advertise the possible health benefits of their hot spring water: The minerals in the hot spring water are supposed to cure certain illnesses.
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Photo ID 40
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Professional Sumo Wrestling 1
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CAPTION: A Yokozuna (sumo wrestler in the highest rank) is performing a ring entrance ceremony (dohyō-iri) at a shrine. This is perhaps Meiji Jingu in Tokyo.
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ADDITIONAL INFO: A professional sumo wrestler traditionally performs “hōnō dohyō-iri” (a ring entrance ceremony dedicated to the gods) when he becomes a Yokozuna. Hōnō dohyō-iri is usually performed at Meiji Jingu today. Hōnō dohyō-iri is also performed during shōgatsu (January/New Years) at Meiji Jingu and for other occasions at other shrines such as Ise Jingu. The sumo wrestler in the center is Haguroyama Masaji. Shonai Haguroyama is written across the bottom of all three wrestlers’ ceremonial clothing. Haguroyama Masaji was Yokozuna on several occasions, seven times, between the years 1941 and 1953 when he retired. See a photo of Haguroyama. |
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Photo ID 41
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Professional Sumo Wrestling 2
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CAPTION: The audience yells, “Yoisshō!” as a Yokozuna is stamping his foot for a ring entrance ceremony (dohyō-iri).
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ADDITIONAL INFO: There are two major styles for a ring entrance ceremony. Regardless of the style he chooses, a Yokozuna usually claps his hands, moves his arms in a certain way, and lifts and stamps his foot on the ground one by one. When he stamps his foot, the audience normally yells, “Yoisshō!” This expression is commonly used by Japanese when lifting a heavy object. Perhaps the audience yells it to support Yokozuna’s entrance performance. Two wrestlers serve him as attendants for this ceremony. For the occupational period, five yokozuna were active. They were Maedayama (1947-49), Azumafuji (1948-54), Chiyonoyama (1951-59), Akino’umi (1942-46) and Terukuni (1942-53). See the list of Yokozuna wrestlers.
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Photo ID 42
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Professional Sumo Wrestling 3
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CAPTION: Hakkeyoi Nokotta! Two sumo wrestlers are about to fight. A sumo referee (gyōji) shouts, “Hakkeyoi Nokotta,” to encourage sumo wrestlers to fight when they begin to wrestle.
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ADDITIONAL INFO: The two sumo wrestlers look very tall, but they are not as fat as today’s professional sumo wrestlers. This may tell us the time this photo was taken (Most people were starved during the immediate postwar period). The man at the center of the picture whose back is to the camera looks like a GI. It is unknown where the photo was taken. |
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Permission to use the Pennino Collection
If photos are used for non-commercial educational purposes such as use of the photos in class lectures, students’ presentations, and academic conference presentations, no permission is necessary. Please credit the photos with the sentence: “From the Walter A. Pennino Postwar Japan Photo Collection, courtesy of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” However if the photos are planned to be used in books, newspapers, documentaries, films, and other forms of media and print, the users must write to the Center for Japanese Studies to request permission. In the request, please explain the topic and the type of media/print.
Send inquiries or requests to:
Pennino Photo Collection
Center for Japanese Studies, Moore 216
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone:  808-956-2664
Fax: 808-956-2666
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