Artist: Kinoshita Daimon
Title: Champion Sumo Wrestlers, Takanohana and Akebono
Date: Late 20th century.
Details & Prices: Kinoshita Daimon: Champion Sumo Wrestlers, Takanohana and Akebono - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
Champion sumo wrestlers, Takanohana (left) and Akebono who became the 64th "Yokozuna" champion wrestler. As Musashi-maru, he came from Hawaii. After some 80 years of absence, the Japan Sumo Association commissioned the making of traditional nishiki-e style woodblock printing to publisher Kyoto Hanga-in and artist Daimon in 1985. These and other new Sumo Nishiki-e are sold in Ryogoku Kokugi-kan in Tokyo.