A History Sociological Study about "Chikaraishi" - We can catch a glimpse of the modernization of Body in the atrophy of Chikaraishi -

在西奥瓦时期之初，“千里来石”已经减少了与劳动方式有关的遵守通过的手段。一般情况下，在节日或相扑比赛中，“千来石”被当作“力量竞赛”的“打法”来练习。也就是说，“传统身体”与一种劳动方式“农业”无关，它只具有游玩和娱乐的功能。这种转变不仅取决于明治时期为推进“国富国强”和“增产兴业”而制定的“身体近代化”政策--学校体育和运动会的普及--而且取决于农业技术进步、化肥供应和生产强度的提高使“传统身体”手段丧失的社会转型过程。因此，在孝和时代初期，身体已经实现了现代化。另一方面，年轻人通过肩上扛着Chikaraishi玩耍，另一方面，他们通过坚持在镇上、村庄和学校举行运动会的方式，亲切地喜欢上了“活泼的动作”、“快速的动作”、“转换方向”和“列队行进”的方式。

In the beginning of the Syowa period, "Chikaraishi" had already lessened the mean of the observance of passage related to a mode of labor. Generally "Chikaraishi" had been practiced as "play" of "a strength contest" at the time of festival or of contest of "sumo". That is, "traditional body" had not related to a mode of labor "agriculture", it had merely function in play and recreation. Such a transformation had depended on not only the policy of "modernization of body" - the diffusion of physical education at school and of athletic meeting - which had been devised in order to push forward "wealth and military strength of a nation" and "increase of production and promotion of industry" as the slogan of the government in the Meiji period, but also the social process of a transformation the loss of the means of "traditional body" by mean of the progress in technique of agriculture and a supply of chemical fertilizer and the intensity of the production.Thus, in the beginning of the Syowa period body had been modernized. On the other hand young people had played by carrying on the shoulder chikaraishi, on the other hand they had taken kindly to "a lively motion" and "quick locomotion" and "the conversion of a direction" and "a march standing in a row" by means of adhering to athletic meeting in the town and village and school.