The hulking forms of two sumo wrestlers clash in a riot of colors in Ay-Ō’s reinterpretation of a design by ukiyo-e printmaker Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). The original print, and a similar design by Kunisada’s student, Utagawa Kuniaki II (1835-1888), shown in the video, carefully rendered each athlete’s facial features and included labels with their names, appealing to sumo fans in the nineteenth century. In contrast, Ay-Ō’s version anonymizes the wrestlers, instead emphasizing their physical

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