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Kenkichi Tsurukawa

鶴川健吉

Born 1981 · Japan

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    Akutagawa 2013 (first half) · Candidate

    すなまわり

    Sunamawari

    Title translated by AI:“Ringside Sand”

    Kenkichi Tsurukawa · 32 when first published

    Novella · 125 pages · Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:A boy who clips every sumo article down to the gossip and skips homework for the broadcasts accepts that he will never be big enough to wrestle and becomes a gyoji, a ring referee, in a sumo stable, living a youth of sand and sweat.