{"id":15324,"date":"2016-03-19T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=15324"},"modified":"2016-03-19T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:36:11","slug":"kotoshogiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/kotoshogiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotoshogiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15325\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/24103327-kotoshogiku-sumo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15325\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15325\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/24103327-kotoshogiku-sumo-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"kotoshogiku sumo\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/24103327-kotoshogiku-sumo-800x564.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/24103327-kotoshogiku-sumo-250x176.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/24103327-kotoshogiku-sumo-768x542.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kotoshogiku on final day of January 2010 tournament<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of these days I&#8217;ll get back to Japan and shoot some sumo now that I actually know how to photograph indoor sports.<\/p>\n<p>More than six years ago, when I took today&#8217;s photo, Kotoshogiku was a rather mediocre komusubi (the fourth highest rank). He lost this bout and finished the tournament 6-9. Recently he has been much better. He was the first Japanese sumo wrestler to win a tournament, this past January, in over a decade. In the current March tournament he is undefeated. Another tournament yusho and he could become the first Japanese yokozuna in a long while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of these days I&#8217;ll get back to Japan and shoot some sumo now that I actually know how to photograph indoor sports. More than six years ago, when I took today&#8217;s photo, Kotoshogiku was a rather mediocre komusubi (the fourth highest rank). He lost this bout and finished the tournament 6-9. Recently he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15326,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions\/15326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}