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

在Syowa时期的开始，“Chikaraishi”已经减少了与劳动模式相关的通行方式的遵守。一般来说，“千karaishi”是在节日或“相扑”比赛时作为“力量比赛”的“游戏”来练习的。也就是说，“传统身体”与一种劳动模式“农业”没有关系，它仅仅具有游戏和娱乐的功能。这种转变不仅依赖于“身体的现代化”政策——在学校和运动会中普及体育教育——这是为了推动“国家的财富和军事力量”和“增加生产和促进工业”（明治时期政府的口号）而制定的政策，但同时也是社会转型的过程，“传统身体”的丧失是由于农业技术的进步和化肥的供应以及生产强度的提高。因此，在Syowa时期的开始，机构已经现代化。另一方面，年轻人以扛着木牌的方式进行游戏，另一方面，他们以坚持参加城镇、村庄和学校的运动会为手段，喜欢“动作活泼”、“动作敏捷”、“变换方向”、“列队行进”。

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.