When faced with the image of a sumotori (a sumo wrestler or rikishi),1 most food-minded people are likely to ask, “What do they eat to look like that?” I asked this question as a high-school exchange student in Japan a decade ago and have been exploring it ever since.
Tōshūsai Sharaku. Ukiyo-e print of the seven-year-old sumo wrestler Daidōzan Bungorō, 1794. Image sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Available here.