Love & Sumo

Renji has spent fourteen years building a life in sumo. He has never learned how to share it.

At twenty-nine, Senda Renji is close to the promotion he has worked toward since boyhood. His days belong to training, tournaments and the demands of his stable. He knows how to endure pain, follow the rules and keep his needs to himself.

Then Noah arrives.

A doctoral researcher studying hierarchy and care in professional sumo, Noah is drawn to the tenderness beneath Renji's discipline. Interviews bec...