The Japan Times, Tuesday 25th March 1902 (Page 3)

General News.

    The wrestlers of the popular Ekoin ring are now reported to be holding a match at Nagoya. To encourage the wrestlers prizes consisting of ornamental aprons, silver cups, bushes of rice, and so forth were offered by the Shinaichi, the local paper, and the Nagoya Branch of the Butokai to those wrestlers who win every day during the course of the performance.