#ayako hamada

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[blueonwrestling]

From the recent AEW closeup with Willow Nightingale, Willow talks about how she's in a rare league of womens wrestlers to have reigned as champions in America, Mexico and Japan.

Bull Nakano, Akira Hokuto and Ayako Hamada are the only other women to do this so obviously she joins an absolutely HUGE and iconic list of names for female wrestling, but to be the first american to do it aswell as being a black woman really does speak to just how fucking awesome Willow is, she's a fucking trailblazer for women across wrestling and I think thats really damn cool.

You really haven't had too many women like her in wrestling in north america until AEW came around, a bigger gal thats just allowed to be a positive babyface and not a stereotype, she's just a happy gal that's all smiles, great stuff.

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[wrestlingmgc]

Sendai Girls World Champion Ayako Hamada

[cultofbullnakano]

Ultimo Dragon and a rookie Ayako Hamada.

[marikoyoshida]

Deluxe Wrestling 22 (デラックスプロレス22) - 2000.11.01

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Daffney vs. Hamada {No DQ Match} • TNA iMPACT!, 8/27/09

[byneddiedingo]

Shin Saburi and Mieko Takamine in Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Yasujiro Ozu, 1941)

Cast: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino, Ayako Katsuragi, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Chishu Ryu, Masao Hayama, Tatsuo Saito, Kuniko Miyake, Michiko Kuwano. Screenplay: Tadao Ikeda, Yasujiro Ozu. Cinematography: Yuharu Atsuta. Art direction: Tatsuo Hamada. Film editing: Yoshiyasu Hamamura. Music: Senji Ito. 

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family is an insular work like the novels of Jane Austen, which were written during the upheavals in Europe during the Napoleonic wars. Austen created her own world of domestic conflict while ignoring the larger world's conflicts, alluding to them only with incidental characters like the soldiers who delight the younger Bennet girls in Pride and Prejudice or the naval officers who appear in Persuasion. Similarly, Ozu creates a little island of family in the midst of Tokyo, and does so in the fateful year of 1941, when Japan's imperial ambitions would finally bring the United States and its allies into global war. The film focuses on family tensions following the death of the patriarch, Shintaro (Hideo Fujino), which reveals his bankruptcy and forces his widow (Ayako Katsuragi) and unmarried daughter Setsuko (Mieko Takamine) to depend on the other family members. The difficulties of living with Setsuko's siblings and in-laws form the plot of the film, until finally the two women go to live in a rundown family property by the sea. Meanwhile, the unmarried brother, Shojiro (Shin Saburi), is off running a business in the city of Tianjin, in China. When he returns for the anniversary of his father's death, Shojiro, who has always been somewhat at odds with his siblings, excoriates them for their neglect of their mother and sister, and invites the two women to come with him to China. There's a brief comic episode in which Shijoro arranges a marriage for Setsuko and she does likewise for him -- though the film ends with Shojiro shyly avoiding an encounter with the bride-to-be. What makes the insularity of Ozu's film so poignant is that Tianjin had been acquired by Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, and Japan ordered troops from Great Britain to leave in 1940 and followed with an expulsion of American Marines stationed there in November 1941, just weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was clearly not a peaceful place to do business, let alone to bring one's wife and mother to. Censorship would have forbidden Ozu from acknowledging any of this, but history has a way of imposing irony where none would have been intended.  

[playingthesaint7823]

Old school joshi just be hitting like that.

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[womenofpw]

SHIMMER Women's Wrestling - Kana (Asuka) vs. Ayako Hamada - SHIMMER 50 on Oct. 27, 2012

[torukun1]

Ayako’s face looks kinda weird here...

[cultofbullnakano]

Wholesome shots of Ayako Hamada and Tiger Dream (Candy Okutsu), from the Arsion photobook.

[marikoyoshida]

Lady's Gong vol. 48 (レディースゴング48) - 2000.03.08

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Hamada vs. Daffney {No DQ Match} • TNA iMPACT!, 8/27/09