Sumo grand champs make New Year pilgrimage
- Published: 8 Jan 2013 at 18.45
- Online news: Asia
Two sumo grand champions made their New Year pilgrimage to a huge Shinto shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday, pledging to work their hardest to make Japan's national sport a success this year.
Sumo grand champions Aminishiki (left) and Harumafuji take part in a ceremony at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine on January 8, 2013. The two sumo champions made their New Year pilgrimage to a huge Shinto shrine in Tokyo, pledging to work their hardest to make Japan's national sport a success this year.
Some 3,000 spectators gathered at Meiji Shrine to watch a tradition-steeped ceremony performed by the sport's two Mongolian yokozuna, 28-year-old Harumafuji and Hakuho, 27.
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