The source is Kim Hong-do's genre painting Ssireum, an eighteenth-century Korean album leaf showing two wrestlers locked at the waist in the centre of a ring of seated spectators. Around them are discarded straw sandals and black horsehair hats, fans, a standing sweet-seller with a tray, sprawling onlookers at the right, and no background at all beyond bare paper.
자막
The instant before the throw Kim Hong-do, Joseon Korea Sandals off, hats set aside A hold that outlived the painting The vendor watches the crowd, not the fight No background at all, just paper The circle is left open on purpose One grip, the whole circle